• makyo@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Where have you heard the second one? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that.

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      6 months ago

      It’s kind of implied by memes like this one. If you suspect any criticism of Biden is coming from Russian disinfo mills, it follows that there is little/no organic/genuine criticism of Biden.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t get that at all.

        Those of us trying to get those saying the things in the meme know we need all the votes we can get.

        If we knew Biden would win in a landslide, why waste keystrokes?

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          6 months ago

          But you’re stifling Democrats who are criticizing Biden by claiming that they’re all actually Russian bots

          Which, actually, is exactly what a Russian bot would do - convince lefty Dems that mainstream Dems are out of touch elitists who don’t care about their concerns and will dismiss any criticism of Biden as foreign interference rather than disagreement with policy choices like genocide support. Which, of course, will cause those lefty dems to resent the Democratic Party and decrease the likelihood they vote for Biden

          So you’re doing Russia’s work for them by continuing this line of attack. You need the votes of young people/zoomers/lefties. You lose parts of that vote by acting like their criticisms are foreign disinformation. Which helps Putin.