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[–] 106 points 2 years ago* (20 children)

I don't understand why these people who pretend to be supreme leftists are putting alt-right dogwhistles in the Democratic candidate's name. I guess you can just call everyone you don't like a Nazi when everyone who disagrees in your echo chamber gets banned.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago

    I mean, they're in there praising nations that are state capitalist and producing hundreds of billionaires, so it clearly isn't the leftist economy part that they like.

    They want Donald to win so that China and Russia can gain more global influence. I guess they are bad at propaganda and just forwarding what their MAGA allies invent or something. Makes sense, they all have the same goals this election.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Hexbear is legitimately filled with right wing trolls pretending to be leftists.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My bet is on troll factory workers slinging ideas around to see what and who sticks, and then they continue to sling ideas with their growing group. That was what the early days strategy of The_Donald on reddit were.

    It doesn't matter that lemmy is relatively unimportant, what matters to them is having a testbed for what is and isn't sticking along with growing a crowd of supporters they might be able to take elsewhere where it matters.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It takes a lot of personal discontinuity to say that either the KKK or the SS would be voting for a black woman.

    And yes, personal discontinuity is meant to be a nice way to say: you dumb.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Abortion is on the ballot in ten states that isn't good for Republicans at all. Expect to see way more trolls talking about how they are suddenly voting for the green party despite there being an actual socialist candidate to vote for. Republicans are desperate and know they're in for big losses if they can't pull something out.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    these people remind me of 4chan. idk if they're trolling, and there's definitely a chance that they're not. also yeah most seem like idiots or sadly really brainwashed

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Looks like rage bait/ trolling to me.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    These are just fascist nerds cosplaying as commies. Not a genuine Communist in the bunch

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What I find funny is that they idolise China as some form of left wing communist utopia. When in reality it's a very conservative and hyper capitalistic society, just with tonnes of authoritarianism and government control.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Xi being too conservative is not a take many people grasp well.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Florida has seen a huge increase of Republicans moving here from states where they were the underdogs. I expect a much wider margin in red favor this year. I would expect the compliment is true, that their states will have a wider blue margin. That is as long as they aren't committing voter fraud in one or the other state.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Never understood the "throw your vote away" thing. Only one person will win. Almost 50% of people will not vote for them in any given election. Did they "throw their vote away" by not voting for the winner? That's just what voting is.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    In the US, the statement only truly applies when voting for a 3rd party, due to how our absolutely fucked FPTP + gerrymandered + electoral college system works, which additionally gives rural (predominantly conservative) areas disproportionately more electoral power. The bar is very literally higher for liberal (in the American sense of the term, not the European/global sense) presidential candidates. So if you vote green or socialist or whatever, you are absolutely voting against your ostensible interests in a statistically-provable sense.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    seriously kkk! i cant even.

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