US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so.
Yeah, I think some of these people are right wingers posing as leftists just being agent provocateurs. Some are probably actually leftists that are spending a lot of time huffing each others’ farts and really do believe that they just need to “send a message” to Democrats by letting donnie snake his way into office. This is the same old tired “the people need to be jolted awake” narrative that has been popular among a certain type of personality ever since I can remember. Maybe these people were always among us. I’ve noticed they are usually people that are extremely rich (and have options to leave the country) and/or are one of the in-group (white xtian cishet) , or hope to be considered one of the “good ones” if they don’t tick all the boxes of the in-group…if their little pipe dream of a magical vanguard of enlightened hoi polloi don’t bring about their vision of utopia after the actions of a fascist regime has brought about their awakening…
What they don’t seem to realize is that if fascism really comes this time, and when donnie’s goons are at their door, telling the goons that these purity ponies didn’t vote for Biden will mean sweet fuckall. Also, if they don’t get out in time, their money/status and so on won’t save them, either.
I think the weird arguments are coming from almost all fake accounts. A couple of them behave like people who genuinely believe the things they’re saying, but actually the vast majority of them do not. In my opinion.
I’ll never claim to be 100% accurate at telling who is and isn’t a faker (and I’m not sure the effort is even a worthwhile thing to spend much energy on), but just consider from this thread the difference of people who are saying things like:
It’s cute when the US accuses countries of interfering with elections like they’re protecting their world record or something
the hypocrisy is astounding. The USA has been interfering in elections for the year dot.
And people who are saying things like:
After this dude has been caught in like half a dozen lies on behalf of Israel in the last few months, who believes anything he has to say about anything?
They are priming the response when Biden loses, so they can blame someone else for their ineptitude and failure to govern.
To me, it sounds like one grouping read the article / headline, had thoughts occur to them based on the article they read, and typed out those thoughts. It sounds like the other grouping has a little bulleted list in front of them “things we’d like to bring up about the Biden administration” and made a halfhearted attempt at "smooth"ly interjecting them into this topic.
I’ve seen them slip and interject a talking point that’s a total incongruity for the target audience / forum (as one of them did down below with January 6th being a peaceful protest), and I’ve seen them apparently fail to register that the talking point they’re bringing up relates in some way to the topic of the article – just sort of blandly repeat it with that same “we all agree” fellow kids type of energy instead of grasping the obvious relationship between what they’re saying and what’s in the article or whatever.
All very good points. Just today on their latest podcast, I heard driftglass/bluegal commenting on the SCOTUS we have and how the cult members on there seemingly want a POTUS with no accountability (basically a king), while reflecting on all the leftist dipshittery over Hillary about how there is no real difference between the Democrats and the Republicans.
Some of the leftists clearly believe this ridiculous and absurd claim (Sadly, I personally know a few of them and they really do hold this dumbass belief, even after Nader and after Stein), but then there are certainly a lot of trolls/bots that are taking that up to try to give the impression that this stupid belief is a common one among progressives/leftists.
Yeah, I think some of these people are right wingers posing as leftists just being agent provocateurs. Some are probably actually leftists that are spending a lot of time huffing each others’ farts and really do believe that they just need to “send a message” to Democrats by letting donnie snake his way into office. This is the same old tired “the people need to be jolted awake” narrative that has been popular among a certain type of personality ever since I can remember. Maybe these people were always among us. I’ve noticed they are usually people that are extremely rich (and have options to leave the country) and/or are one of the in-group (white xtian cishet) , or hope to be considered one of the “good ones” if they don’t tick all the boxes of the in-group…if their little pipe dream of a magical vanguard of enlightened hoi polloi don’t bring about their vision of utopia after the actions of a fascist regime has brought about their awakening…
What they don’t seem to realize is that if fascism really comes this time, and when donnie’s goons are at their door, telling the goons that these purity ponies didn’t vote for Biden will mean sweet fuckall. Also, if they don’t get out in time, their money/status and so on won’t save them, either.
I think the weird arguments are coming from almost all fake accounts. A couple of them behave like people who genuinely believe the things they’re saying, but actually the vast majority of them do not. In my opinion.
I’ll never claim to be 100% accurate at telling who is and isn’t a faker (and I’m not sure the effort is even a worthwhile thing to spend much energy on), but just consider from this thread the difference of people who are saying things like:
And people who are saying things like:
To me, it sounds like one grouping read the article / headline, had thoughts occur to them based on the article they read, and typed out those thoughts. It sounds like the other grouping has a little bulleted list in front of them “things we’d like to bring up about the Biden administration” and made a halfhearted attempt at "smooth"ly interjecting them into this topic.
I’ve seen them slip and interject a talking point that’s a total incongruity for the target audience / forum (as one of them did down below with January 6th being a peaceful protest), and I’ve seen them apparently fail to register that the talking point they’re bringing up relates in some way to the topic of the article – just sort of blandly repeat it with that same “we all agree” fellow kids type of energy instead of grasping the obvious relationship between what they’re saying and what’s in the article or whatever.
All very good points. Just today on their latest podcast, I heard driftglass/bluegal commenting on the SCOTUS we have and how the cult members on there seemingly want a POTUS with no accountability (basically a king), while reflecting on all the leftist dipshittery over Hillary about how there is no real difference between the Democrats and the Republicans.
Some of the leftists clearly believe this ridiculous and absurd claim (Sadly, I personally know a few of them and they really do hold this dumbass belief, even after Nader and after Stein), but then there are certainly a lot of trolls/bots that are taking that up to try to give the impression that this stupid belief is a common one among progressives/leftists.