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Cory DoctorowA billionaire who accuses his adversaries of being paid shills, while simultaneously offering people $1,000 to cast ballots for his preferred candidate, is telling you everything you need to know about how popular he thinks his own views are, and how many people would support them without bribes.
Weltzeitgeist@pluralistic He also reinforces the antisemtic trope around Soros.
Brokar@pluralistic And that shows you how much people value democracy when their votes can be bought for cheap. Those people deserve neither.
Jack
Robert@pluralistic Over self confidence 😜
Keif@pluralistic It’s definitely the “I am only doing it because we have been saying the other side does it, so that’s why it’s okay now.”
Nevermind they say that without proof, their proof is the lack of proof. Like how Biden was both an incompetent and senile president yet also a criminal mastermind, capable of deftly affecting the Trump Government.
If it’s good, well, Trump is responsible. Bad? Clearly, Obama/Biden/Hillary/Harris/Walz
Alex@pluralistic we should also watch the results closely since he is doing the same trick again.
Justin Derrick@pluralistic Let's not forget the moment where the billionaire buying an election accused a billionaire of buying a handful of protesters, devoid of irony or, let's face it, self-awareness.
Violet MadderPeople like this just assume everyone is a paid shill or wants to be, since they think money is all that matters and that everyone must be motivated entirely by greed and nothing else, just like they are.
I am Jack's Lost 404
jmjm@pluralistic At least one voter got a cool million for her vote. I guess he figured grift is worth the ROI.
@pluralistic Fun fact: Handing out giant checks as a publicity stunt was invented by the original Nazis.
https://theoutline.com/post/1856/where-did-giant-novelty-checks-come-from-nazis
Randall Lee@jmjm @pluralistic So publisher's clearing house got their big fake cheque idea from the Nazis?
Mark vW@jmjm @pluralistic First to really exploit mass media.
Fabian
Dan
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@Casper042 @pluralistic since he’s already an established mouthpiece of the fascist party, that probably means that this is more legal than if he were an actual random fascist voter. But then they’re misrepresenting it to their voters, but that’s just SOP.
samiamsamoh look, another bribe in plain sight
hhf@pluralistic @briankrebs you can pay some people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.
CassandraVert@pluralistic
The whole right narrative is a marketing campaign to a poorly educated public. They know they'd be rejected by the majority if people really understood.
The whole right narrative is a marketing campaign to a poorly educated public. They know they'd be rejected by the majority if people really understood.
Joe ❌👑@pluralistic He thinks of non-billionaires as NPC's (video game non-player characters), without a will of their own, so he thinks that those who oppose him must be manipulated by some rival billionaire (Soros or someone).