https://midwest.social/post/18536008
Edit of yesterday's meme with accounted for non-voters
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2024
967 points (89.3% liked)
Political Memes
5434 readers
3509 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This is, objectively, a political meme. Humor is not requisite.
This happens every election cycle the closer election day comes. Is it really any surprise political advocacy is higher during political season?
And what makes this "astroturfed"?
"Things I disagree with are being upvoted so it must be a coordinated campaign"
That is so disengenious and you know it...
Is it? Your complaint is that things you disagree with are appearing more frequently, which they do when people upvote them. Sorry most of us have similar feelings about not voting / voting third party, but the only reason you'd call it astroturfing is if you think it's disingenuous.
You dont like voting third party/not voting, yet you would frame me as your opponent...Nice framing. I haven't said I disagree or agree with it. Not everything is so black and white as you may see it.
All I said was is that I don't like seeing the same posts appear X times on political Memes every day.
And what I think is disengenious is the way you frame it. To frame my statement as such that I support not voting/ voting third party.
Astroturfing is when there is a disingenuous coordinated campaign with a goal in mind. This post is specifically against not voting or voting third party, and you came here to complain about seeing too many things like this post. If your complaint was about seeing too many voting / politics memes in general, I imagine you would recognize what sub this is and what month it is.
I don't believe you would be calling an abundance of voting related memes in a political memes sub this close to an election with no goal in mind "astroturfing" unless you didn't know what the word meant. The obvious implication is that you believe there is a disingenuous coordinated campaign against voting third party or not voting. My point is that there doesn't have to be. It's more likely that many people, myself included, agree with the message of the political meme in the politics sub, and probably more than normal since we are so close to the election.