This isn’t about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That’s pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I’m also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion.
I’m not even talking about necessarily in this community directly, however in a lot of other spaces I’ve noticed a lot of accounts using divisive language and terms like “The ineffectual left” “single issue voters” “ignorant right wing morons”. Lots of straw man arguments, lots of willful ignorance.
I’m not a centrist, I’m very very very far left however I know well enough not to patently dismiss the talking points of others, outside of course calls to genocide. I know what dog whistles sound like, and I’m hearing a lot of them lately.
Most egregiously I’m seeing very long form post replies that read very much like what is generated from LLMs.
So I guess my question is, how’re we all fairing with what might be the largest Turing test ever?
Yes a Trump victory is better for enemies of the US.
Yes Democrats/Biden are making a lot of dumb moves and doing their damn best to lose.
I don’t think they’re trying to lose. I think they’re overrun by corporate influence as badly as the Republicans, and have no strong leadership to coordinate and guide them against a relatively coordinated right wing with foreign support.
Its not that they are trying to lose.
Its worse.
They are trying to shift the bar of what is acceptable using Trump as a threat.
A status quo shift to worse economic conditions for the ballpark 35%-95% group.
The top 5% will break down and help the poorest, demand to be loved for it, while maintaining record growth on wall street, and squeeze the rest to do it.
Sorry for the late reply.
Yeah some good points, if the GOP fielded a good candidate the Democrats would run someone better.