• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    It’s probably state and political organizations trying to influence the election by implicitly trashing the democrats, there are farms of memers from conservative countries and organizations trying to imply that the democrats are the authoritarian party to rattle the cages of voters.

    it happened in 2016 and 2020, and every American intelligence agency has been publicly cautioning voters for years that electoral manipulation through indirect methods like memes and social media posts are definitely being perpetrated by unfriendly countries and is only increasing.

    https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-propaganda-senate-report/

    It’s a pretty interesting story that not many people talk about, but a lot of political memes on the internet are supplied by foreign state actors willfully trying to influence American elections, and in the case of 2016, successfully affected the outcome of the American election for the conservatives according to intelligence agencies.

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      Jeez I’m just some rando reminding yanks they are genociders for free. How stupid is this? I’m just appaled by war crimes and you guys threat to invade the haag.

      But now I’m learning I could get paid to insult yanks? Sounds like a great job. Would you have the address of a recruiter or something? I need a side-hussle.

      The McCarthidiots are really out there saying all criticism of america’s action must come from some siberian call centers lmao

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      7 hours ago

      This is not trashing democrats, and republicans would be worse. This is trashing all the ignorant peopel who don’t understand the difference.

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      Don’t see the link between this meme and the US election. I bet this is a widely shared understanding of the situation outside the US.

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        link:

        in 2016 and 2020, meme farms were established in Russia, China and Iran specifically to covertently attack the democratic party so that The conservatives in the US would seem more rational, because for an actors with intense to harm the US want the conservatives to gain power again.

        that is happening again.

        Even if OP here isn’t one of the Russian meme farmers themselves, their misunderstanding of the political conflict is undoubtedly influenced by the intentionally divisive and simplified memes flooded into American social media by bad actors.

        It’s a dead-end, lazy barely-a-thought meme and the fashionably cynical futility of American policy analysis should be confronted.

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          Fuck off idiot. You guys are spamming the whole internet with your elections memes even though the rest of the world sees you are just throwing the rest of the world under the bus every four years.

          “intentionally divisive and simplified memes flooded into American social media by bad actors”

          Are you the paid propagandist? No way somebody normal speaks like that.

          Oh and I hope you guys pays after sending two-tons bombs that they’re dropping on hospitals. I hope whoever’s in charge gets jailed.

          Execute trump. Jail Bidden

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        I’m gonna agree with varik here. I’ve noticed a deliberate contingent of “pro-Palestinian” who are clearly siphoning votes from Harris. They seem to be targeting naive leftists and Midwest Muslims, and they always intentionally obfuscate just how much more brutal and awful Trump would be.

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          Trump is your responsibility as an american, idiot. The same way sending bomb to israel is your responsibility as an american. So fuck you, you have blood on your hand. Look at yourself in the mirror real good.

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            Then execute the fucker. How is he even allowed to run in the first place. America is a rogue genocide-supporting country. I hope they get their coup lmao after all the innocents yanks were silent while their country regimechanged half of the world. Time to get a taste of your own medecine lmao

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      Bro, u don’t need foreign authors to do that. The very same person that did and does that there, teach Bolsonaro and his MFs to do the same in Brazil. USA problem is not foreign authors, but inside job, even when them (Trump and his followers, backed by Steve Bannon and tons of money from people like Musk) hire external actors to do so.

      One of the biggest problems of USA lies in the fact that united stadians (sorry, I refuse to call them Americans and prefer to create a name) always think that their country is being attacked, harassed and assaulted by evil external actors that wants the end of USA when these actors are, mainly, internal. And most of the externals, also hired by internal actors.

      But, I admit that it is being nice to see the end of USA as an empire (even though they will die shooting and killing millions, like we are seeing in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Siria, Libia and many others)