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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course they are which is why they've taken out all the stops to make it happen.

There is a new push online on various social media platforms (including Reddit and Lemmy), by Russian Bots to spread either pro Trump nonsense, or anti Biden propaganda. Lots of people online posing as progressives trying to convince people to either vote for someone else, or even just to stay home on election day. Apathy amongst liberals and centrists is one of the biggest weapons that the GOP has.

Spoiler candidates can be very dangerous. RFK Jr has no dreams of winning, and instead is looking to leverage his name to steal a few votes away from Biden and hand Trump a victory.

There are also going to be a whole hell of a lot of dirty tricks which will try to cause confusion or stifle the vote. Some races will be extremely tight, so even a few percentage points switch sides or don't go vote and a Trump win is absolutely possible, which will greatly benefit Putin and his pointless war.

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

@Hazdaz

>There is a new push online on various social media platforms (including Reddit and Lemmy), by Russian Bots to spread either pro Trump nonsense, or anti Biden propaganda.

do you have any proof for this? I think you are making it up to discredit people who don't like your candidate.

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

https://youtu.be/soYkEqDp760

I know you're not going to watch it, but here is a video about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/23/us-election-result-misinformation-fbi-warning

And I know you're not going to click and read it,but this is just one of many warnings from the FBI about online misinformation campaigns by foreign actors.

So are you now going to delete your post? Kind of funny that your account is 5 YEARS old and this is literally the first post you've ever made.

Or are you going to come back and be a man and admit you were wrong?

Let's see how this plays out, shall me @bigmouthcommie

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

@Hazdaz this is all speculation, not proof of your claim. and it doesn't even support your specific claim that it would be pro-trump or anti-biden in support of a so-called "spoiler".

it's almost the opposite of evidence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Get bent, you clown. The video alone is almost 1/2 hour long and your dumb ass replied 2 minutes after I posted my reply to you. Somehow you can magically watch a nearly 1/2 hr long video and read an article in about 100 seconds.

Thanks for proving me right that you have zero intention of actually looking at my citations. Get fucked.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

@Hazdaz your insults are uncivil. you should apologize.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

@Hazdaz

i wasn't responding to the video, but the article. but you knew that, i bet.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

@Hazdaz

your three year old sources literally can't support the claim you made.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

@Hazdaz This article is more than 2 years old