“The Republicans should say, we want to take over, we should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” Trump told Dan Bongino, the former deputy director of the FBI, in a podcast appearance.
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On several occasions, Trump has pledged to change how the country votes, zeroing in on methods he falsely claims lead to fraudulent voting. In August, he said he was going to “lead a movement” to end mail-in ballots, and vowed to sign an executive order banning them, in addition to voting machines. He did not end up signing the order.
The president also kicked off a rare mid-decade redistricting campaign intended to help Republicans win additional US House seats in November’s midterm elections.
It’s shocking to me how many feel that way. They get MAD when I even mention the possibility of what Trump is literally saying. Many of them are on Lemmy too, which has always felt strange.
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reddit has very minimal bot protection and a lot of systems designed to benefit those who pay to play, as it were.
Lemmy doesn’t even have that. And it is trivial to make multiple accounts across multiple instances. Whether that is to role play some nonsense or to do the old “the first two or three downdoots set the tone” trick people try to pretend isn’t a thing. And spend a bit of time shitposting/reading the timestamps and… some of them are REAL obvious.
And this is very apparent in the various political threads. LOTS of people pushing agendas (the gun nut lobby being particularly alarming). Let alone the “official” lemmy instance being blocked by most people because it is infested with lead dev sanctioned tankies who are largely indistinguishable from chuds when it comes to pushing putin et al’s policies.
Much like in the good old days: Open, minimally invasive, social media is fun (yes. IRC and Usenet were social media). It is also infested with bad actors and manipulators.
Oh IRC, how I miss you. I was on the Undernet, you?
Yeah, we’re getting downvoted for daring to point out in a comment that what Trump said in the post I linked to might not be great for election security
Here’s an observation I’ve had. There are a large number of .world accounts with ages all within a month or two of 2.7 years. These accounts a very vocal about how they feel any kind of uprising is bad news. Just sit tight, follow the rules, let the politicians solve the problem. Don’t fight.
Its when the first major exodus from Reddit was, around the API restrictions. Before that Lemmy was barely fledgling, practically unpopulated.
You’re joking right? In the 2024 election you think Lemmy was unpopulated?
I’m dying laughing.
Do I need to get the whiteboard out and work this out for you? It was the summer of 2023. I get that you are largely under attack in this thread, but you are quite literally flailing at everyone who respond to you right now.
Sweetie, the Election is in November.
Jfc, you can’t even follow your own thread.
The major influx into lemmy happened the summer of 2023, approximately 2.7 years ago. It coincided with reddit making preparations to go public, specifically, banning third party apps and making drastic changes to their API. Approximately 15 months before the 2024 election.
At this point it was very clear that you are not reading anything or comprehending anything I am saying and therefore we should just stop now. I suggest maybe you go outside and take a big breath while you still have freedom to do so.
Have the day you voted for.