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The one that they keep spending billions of dollars every year to influence, including spreading the myth that your vote doesn't matter, to discourage voter participation.
Which is why voting cannot overcome capital. I'm not saying voting is pointless, only that voting has been made to be incapable of undoing the power that has accumulated under capital.
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
Why not? Have you tried? The internet is the greatest opportunity in American history - you no longer need to be a newspaper tycoon or a TV or radio station owner to reach people. Just the right message and the right personality.
China and Russia are tricking people on the internet right now into storming Area 51, eating tide pods, electing a fascist, and they did it all for PENNIES.
Because capital will never cede power without a threat of violence (implicit or otherwise).
Again, have you tried?
Yes, quite sure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency#Timeline_of_the_Internet_Research_Agency_interference_in_United_States_elections
Every fuckin day, bud. It has quite literally never happened without it.
Those are billion-dollar psyop campaigns run by the largest and most well-funded intelligence agencies in the world.
Individuals give up their personal wealth every day for a variety of reasons, but the capitalist class writ large has never once been abolished or ceded power to the working class without explicit or implicit threat of violence.
But even then, a single person using their immense fortune to create a social benefit system is still a threat of violence against capital, and can be used to extract concessions from the capital class. Maybe you're thinking of violence as physical, but I'm using it to mean any great force capable of compelling action.
Why? Because of a wikipedia post citing things like the Washington Post? What is your actual evidence? Present your actual evidence of "China and Russia are tricking people on the internet right now into storming Area 51, eating tide pods, electing a fascist". Not some other claim, not just "oh Russia does some astroturfing", that specific claim. How about you start with the tide pods.
There's 184 sources in there, discredit all of them.
Google "Tiktok challenges".
But really, I'm more concerned about the electing a fascist part.
Fuck off with that Gish Gallop. How about you actually present your sources.
I googled it, found zero evidence about "China and Russia are tricking people on the internet right now into eating tide pods"
So you were just lying.
They aren't all supporting a single argument that is not how wikipedia works, dumbass.
So you were lying.
Prove it.
No, they aren't. Not how citations work. And that would be a Motte-and-Baily even if it was.
A Nazi, a lier, and an ablest? You really are the full fascist package.
So, you have no evidence, it's just a xenophobic conspiracy theory.
I think this is that roundsparrow guy. I think they have serious psychological issues that aren't autism-related, but maybe some sort of cptsd or BPD.
I'm autistic, and you sound like you are too. Me asking if you are does not make me "ableist".
You seem to be adept in calling people names. Try making arguments instead.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tiktok-china/story?id=108111708
You can't just keep calling everything you don't like "fascist" and "xenophobic" and "ableist", you know.
Lol. Ok, Ableist Nazi.
Why? You haven't, you've only made assertions. And lied a bit, of course.
Doesn't prove your claim. What a shock, more lies from the Nazi.
You seem to have been reduced to nonsensical name-calling.
Yes it does.
Now you're the one who's lying. Maybe you're also the one who's a Nazi?
Lol, ok mr. "are you autistic"
No, it doesn't. Lying doesn't work when I can just click the link and see that it doesn't.
"I know you are but what am I!"
More nonsensical name calling?
Lying doesn't work when everyone else reading this thread can click the link and see that it does.
Classic Nazi argument strategy. DARVO.
Ah, you've been reduced to being literally incoherent.
DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender".
Sure it does, Nazi
Is ", Nazi" like the signature you add on the end of every comment?