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[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The people dumb enough to believe this guy are the exact people within the Democratic party that they are trying to keep believing in electoral politics. His campaign is here to keep people passively accepting the failures of the Democratic party as they are distracted by the shapes and colors of resistance without any material goals for change.

If you're going a little crazy wondering how people are falling for this very obvious grifter it's because his messaging is not for you.

It's like those emails from the "Nigerian Prince" with all the misspellings asking you to send them $5000 in eBay gift cards. It's not because the scammers are being stupid. They are prefiltering anyone that replies so that they are a perfect target for the scam. Anyone smart enough is automatically going to ignore it.

So, not only does this grift give dumb people false hope in electoral politics as fascism takes control. It also leaves Liberals frustrated with Leftist for rightfully criticizing these war mongering racist. Because liberals can't actually imagine a world in which there is anything else they could do but "vote harder".

All while the fascist are proudly boasting about the ways they will rig the elections. Can we stop wasting our time talking about this idiot?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They hear only the parts they like and pretend he doesn't mean the rest. Very similar to MAGA with Trump.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 months ago

This is a keenly astute observation.