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Trump Is A Fascist. Harris Is Problematic. We Deserve More Options (www.teenvogue.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve seen firsthand the Russian propaganda (your vote doesn’t matter; both sides are terrible; protest vote to a third party; don’t vote for genocide) being basically indistinguishable from a lot of actual progressive social media posts.

Have you actually seen this Russian propaganda firsthand? Where’s your evidence? Perhaps virtually all of them have been actual progressive social media posts and virtually none of them Russian propaganda. https://lemmy.ml/post/21753853/14538328

Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia

Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets

Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier

Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters

Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election

Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork

Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.

MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes

Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor's Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four

Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA "Cooked The Intelligence" To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016

Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Totally circumstantial (and admittedly not clear in my above post), but what I’ve seen is not originally from posts, but all targeted spam emails to a government institution (which I can’t share unfortunately, but I fully realize “trust me bro” is not useful on the internet - though if Lemmy was bigger, other people with similar jobs have definitely seen the same). I definitely have no evidence of someone specifically reading these emails (the vast majority of which were caught and filtered by the spam blocker) and reposting them to social media, just pointing out that I saw a lot of the same things. I have seen some of your links but not others and read every one of these, and it’s all encouraging to know that, hopefully, the foreign influencers are doing a really shitty job. The Dems run some really bad candidates, but we all collectively (myself included) need to work harder to fix this shit on years 1-3 and not just year 4. Personally, I’m voting for the best option we have at the moment, but like… I really do totally get it if you don’t.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I live in a deep $COLOR state, not a swing state, so my vote has no effect on the Electoral College anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, I fully support protest votes against dysfunctional two-party systems in deep $COLOR states - that’s where a lot of people don’t vote because they think they “don’t make a difference” but that’s how little trends start to form over time. Just gotta do what we can with what we have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Please don't let apathy guide you on this. It matters we at least keep showing up to vote even if the most we get out of it is a higher likelihood of being summoned for jury duty.