I know they’ve always been on Lemmy, but it seems like the past few weeks it’s slowly increasing, making me want to just stay on beehaw /local. Showing up on more communities, even on instances that ban that type of trolling explicitly.
Anyone else notice this?
Note: When I’m saying Tankie here, I’m not referring to far leftists, socialists, anti-capitalists, etc. I’m talking about trolls that act leftist but their actual intent is to cause infighting and support authoritarian regimes. Sealioning, all that stuff.
It’s actually very possible. Black conservative voices look a lot like Trump. Tim Scott, for example; he’s got a nice face, and he seems like a kind person since he always talks up a positive message (“compassionate conservatism”), but his policies align very, very closely with Trump and the far-right elements that have taken over the Republican party. Anecdotally, I’ve known a number of black men in north Georgia that very strongly support Trump.
FiveThirtyEight recently covered this. And it’s looking bad. Bad enough that we–by which I mean people that support a genuine democracy in the US–can’t afford to sit this vote out, even if we believe that Biden’s support for Israel is awful. Because we know Trump is going to be even worse there, and worse in every possible way.
They didn’t vote for him the last time. Or the time before then. Occam’s razor overwhelmingly favors polling error.