Which is why it’s a shame to see you fight each other as if that isn’t the case.

I would wholeheartedly recommend reading How To Win Friends And Influence People (or at least this summary). Especially if you’re trying to convince people to vote in the midterms.

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    Might be my supposition, but I believe the more aggressive political posters happen to come out of hibernation specifically for election time and then go back to sleep until the next cycle.

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      True they are all Russian bots meant to distract voters from the real enemy, Putin

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      This, especially places like the latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world by K1nsey6@lemmy.world

      They banned me (as well as delete my reply) for pointing out their obvious “both sides” propaganda meant to discourage voter turnout.

      I suggest checking it out to understand what modern propaganda is like

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        LateStageCapitalism@lemmy.world is not a valid sub. It is run by a single crybaby mod (GodlessCommie) who deletes comments and bans those who disagree with his juvenile opinions. Guy is a trashcan infant on a permanent power trip. Block the sub to avoid obvious quitter propaganda.

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        complaining about people identifying the toxicity of the bipartisan consensus is just shooting the messenger. you complain about propaganda, while you yourself are reproducing a propaganda narrative.

        if the democrats actually distinguished themselves from the republicans it would motivate people to vote for them. the party most responsible for demotivating people is the democrats, rather than owning that their loyalists prefer to blame anything else.

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          Pick one

          • Democrats are loyalists

          • Democrats don’t turn out to vote for their own party

          Also ML accounts always come out of the woodworks to discourage voter turn out. I wonder why?

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            those two points are not contradictory at all.

            loyalists vote for the party regardless, but there aren’t enough loyalists to win without a broader turnout. winning requires turnout from people that the party has failed to motivate. that was what happened last election at least.

            but yeah totally, any criticism of democrats is actually secret sabotage or whatever

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              Also ML accounts always come out of the woodworks to discourage voter turn out. I wonder why?

              dawg you showed up 4 months ago and i’ve been here for years

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                What? I’m talking about the obvious ML bots/ propagandists coming out of nowhere to discourage voting by vehemently making “both sides” arguments. What does my account age, you’re grasping at any straw

                Back to this topic you really want to defend: Places like the latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world by K1nsey6@lemmy.world

                They banned me (as well as delete my reply) for pointing out their obvious “both sides” propaganda meant to discourage voter turnout.

                I suggest checking it out to understand what modern propaganda is like

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                  I suggest checking it out to understand what modern propaganda is like

                  you certainly seem like a victim of it.

                  They banned me (as well as delete my reply) for pointing out their obvious “both sides” propaganda meant to discourage voter turnout.

                  i’d ban you from any comm i moderate for being like that too tbh.

                  your account age matters cause the one with a fresh account who popped up near an election to act as a propagandist is you

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                    i’d ban you from any comm i moderate

                    Badge of honor. Your comments are trash and you’re almost always downvoted. You’ve been doubling down aggressively on your garbage comments a lot over the last week.

                    Also, that person joined in June. That isn’t particularly close to an election. You realize people have to join Lemmy at some point during the year, right? Would you have preferred they waited until right after the election to appease your pathetic desires?

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                    Being banned from there is an honor like, btw whoever reads this. Here’s another example of propaganda: projection to muddy the water and not talk about the obvious attempts to discourage voter turnout

                    Use user tags to mark users like that

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        When both parties are beholden to the billionaire donor class then what is your argument against this?

        Unconditional support for a party we have no say in gave us Trump. The DNCCC and super-delegates gave us Trump. The Democratic party isn’t democratic.

        We want democrats, not Demo©®at$.

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          Who said unconditional support?

          The goal is to immediately stop the descent into fascism by electing the ONLY party that can unseat the fascists THEN reform that party by voting out the assholes who can’t get onboard with what voters want.

          You are not getting a viable 3rd party by November OR by 2028.

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            The Democrats were a participant to genocide, and still are. They armed fascists in Israel. They armed fascists in Ukraine. The list goes on and on.

            Are you just NIMBY about fascists? I’m sorry that I don’t follow your narrow chauvinist vision in regards to selective opposition to fascism.

            Nazis are bad everywhere, not just here, and even within our supposed “enemies”.

            Fascists are my only enemies, wherever they may be.