Many voters seem fooled that Trump 47 would be a bland replay of Trump 45, not the authoritarian nightmare he actually plans.

This BTW is how you involve in the story the reality of what the voters think, which is an important portion of election coverage, while still upholding your basic journalistic responsibility to communicate to people what’s actually going on.

    • cygon@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 months ago

      I’ve seen these people pop up a lot here, too.

      I just assumed that this is the flavor of far-right influencing campaigns we get to see on Lemmy. Since the normal “far-right and Russia good, liberals and EU/Democrats bad because {manliness/financial elite/globalism/cabal}” angle is pretty much a lost cause here, the next best thing they can do is reduce turnout via resignation and bitterness.

      • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        8 months ago

        That’s exactly what it is. The best way to get the left to stay home is focusing on ideological purity. They’ll suggest Biden isn’t a true leftist therefore you’re not upholding your morals if you vote for him. Then say if you do still feel the need to vote pick Cornell West or Jill Stein. It’s so obvious I have about a dozen accounts tagged now. It’s even the same tactic foreign influence used in 2016.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
      41·
      8 months ago

      I think they’re almost all trolls. There tend to be little weirdnesses or inconsistencies in their stories if you really look at where they say they’re coming from and compare it to what they’re doing and saying. And their heart’s not really in it. There tend to be like 1 or 2 things they like to say about any given situation, and then once they’ve got their talking points in, it’s just content-free rudeness or sudden silence or them changing the subject to something else. Usually people who are interested enough in politics to talk about it to strangers on the internet have some sort of learned knowledge base in it even if it’s a little shallow or one-sided. With them it’s literally “Rail strike, union buster, QED, next topic pls.”

      Trying to “win” a debate with them is obviously pure futility but I actually think it’s good for the discourse to have them around spouting this stuff for as long as they’re going to do such a crappy job at it. It’s like a politics version of Cunningham’s Law.

      • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
        15·
        8 months ago

        > There tend to be little weirdnesses or inconsistencies in their stories if you really look at where they say they’re coming from and compare it to what they’re doing and saying. And their heart’s not really in it.

        can you explain this more?

        • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
          51·
          8 months ago

          How do you feel about American foreign policy in Central and South America?

            • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
              5·
              8 months ago

              No particular opinion about it you want to share?

              I would think as a person with opinions so strong about geopolitics and America’s role in the world, that you’d be okay with enabling Hitler 2.0 to come to power in your own country because of them… you’d have some kind of opinion on it, even if it wasn’t directly relatable to any current election going on just right at this moment.

              Just one of those little mysteries, I guess.