• paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    It’s hard to say for sure but I definitely remember seeing a lot of people on various Internet platforms back in October saying that they would refuse to vote for Harris because of Palestine.

    Which is a sentiment I can understand. However, it is pretty clear today that Trump has been far worse for Palestine (and the US, and most of the rest of the world). And I thought that was pretty obvious last fall too.

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      25 days ago

      See that is what im always sorta wondering. Is it real people or is it being manipulated by folks to lower the impact of what they do? I definitely think most of it is real folks but I also feel there are unfriendly forces stoking the flames to get them pushing the extremeness that turns off the middle folk. Whats really bad is before I had a bit of sympathy and would push a bit on the issue but now there are much more local immediate concerns that just take precedence. I will be more concerned with global affairs when people are not being grabbed and renditioned to a foreign gulag over here.

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        25 days ago

        I suspect it mostly started as propaganda. Which then became successful and caused genuine believers to repeat it and spread it.

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      25 days ago

      i don’t take these people seriously. they only EVER bitch about democrats. notice how many protests we had during the election and the amount of psyops targeting democrats and notice how everyone is basically silent now. maybe a few of those people actually exist but it’s likely their handlers got them organized to go out and affect the election and they’re not needed anymore since the desired outcome was met so the organizers/handlers disappeared.