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How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad? And why would something like that need to be censored? (I am not American

by rghp 8y ago

How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad? And why would something like that need to be censored? (I am not American)

sjroot 8y ago
The article says that the deleted accounts were telling Democratic men not to vote because they would “drown out the voice of women.” The idea is to cast a large net so that maybe, just maybe, a small number of Democratic males would abstain. Especially in swing states, every single vote is extremely valuable to both parties.
- rghp 8y ago
  I can't imagine a male (a real male) not voting because of that. Sounds like those comments were in jest.
  - erpaa 8y ago
    "Grab them by the ballots" facebook page with naked fat woman is not a jest. Would discourage me surely.
  - themihai 8y ago
    You would surprised by how easy people are "influenced"... Just heard some conspiracy theories from people I though were "sane" and I can tell you that people believe anything you tell them if that aligns somehow with their belief system.
- tyfon 8y ago
  That sounds ridiculous. I also don't live in the US, but in my country we are encouraged to not vote or "vote blank" if we don't agree with any of the parties. It's a way of expressing your displeasure with all of the parties up for election.
  - specialist 8y ago
    In the USA, there are serious proposals for adding "none of the above" to each contest. Some even suggest if "none of the above" wins, there's a do-over with all new candidates. Years ago, we had a local race for judge where both candidates were revealed to be despicable (during their campaign). A do-over would have been great.
- aaron695 8y ago
  < The idea is to cast a large net so that maybe, just maybe, a small number of Democratic males would abstain. I sincerely doubt that's the point. It's a false flag. It strengthens the Republicans vote. It encourages Republicans to fight back strongly against the nonsense and weakens possible Democratic support. The right isn't getting stronger, the left is getting weaker, these accounts just seem to be rolling with it. [edit] On these tweets James Woods got kicked from twitter for talking about it, he even states it's fake, ironically the banning strengthening the tweet more - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/24/conservative-actor-james-woods-tweeted-a-hoax-meme-in-july-twitter-just-locked-him-out-of-his-account/?utm_term=.615bcb7e3ff8 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/2...
imustbeevil 8y ago
Well, one example would be threatening people either directly or through violent public messaging. These are antisocial behaviors. Of the 10,000 words any human reads on any day, removing unnecessary negativity is an absolute virtue. This is the same reason we have spam filters. Would you consider Google to be censoring your email inbox? Wanting to force every human to see every other human's toxic dialogue is an invocation of Hanlon's Razor. Not an American issue by the way, if your country happens to vote this is happening in your elections too.
- rghp 8y ago
  If people were being threatened with violence, I'm sure that would be the focus of this article. And I'm also sure they would've taken it up with the authorities.
  - deleted 8y ago
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  - imustbeevil 8y ago
    You asked how to discourage someone from voting, not what the focus of the article was. I guess you meant that rhetorically and had a different narrative in mind.
drodgers 8y ago
Just think about it for a few moments, it's easy to come up with some ideas that would work on some people some of the time: Democrats certain to win "we don't really need any more votes" Polling both lines expected to reach record '4 hour' lengths! "No hope" for democrats come polling day DEA planning "surprise" drug-test sting at polling booths ICE planning "polling-day round-up!" Georgia electoral system "hopelessly rigged" — why your vote won't even be counted Now imagine that you were getting paid to work full-time at reducing turnout on social media and that it was something you believed-in — it wouldn't be hard to have some decent effect at the margins.

by rghp 8y ago

How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad? And why would something like that need to be censored? (I am not American)

sjroot 8y ago

The article says that the deleted accounts were telling Democratic men not to vote because they would “drown out the voice of women.” The idea is to cast a large net so that maybe, just maybe, a small number of Democratic males would abstain. Especially in swing states, every single vote is extremely valuable to both parties.

rghp 8y ago
I can't imagine a male (a real male) not voting because of that. Sounds like those comments were in jest.
- erpaa 8y ago
  "Grab them by the ballots" facebook page with naked fat woman is not a jest. Would discourage me surely.
- themihai 8y ago
  You would surprised by how easy people are "influenced"... Just heard some conspiracy theories from people I though were "sane" and I can tell you that people believe anything you tell them if that aligns somehow with their belief system.
tyfon 8y ago
That sounds ridiculous. I also don't live in the US, but in my country we are encouraged to not vote or "vote blank" if we don't agree with any of the parties. It's a way of expressing your displeasure with all of the parties up for election.
- specialist 8y ago
  In the USA, there are serious proposals for adding "none of the above" to each contest. Some even suggest if "none of the above" wins, there's a do-over with all new candidates. Years ago, we had a local race for judge where both candidates were revealed to be despicable (during their campaign). A do-over would have been great.
aaron695 8y ago
< The idea is to cast a large net so that maybe, just maybe, a small number of Democratic males would abstain. I sincerely doubt that's the point. It's a false flag. It strengthens the Republicans vote. It encourages Republicans to fight back strongly against the nonsense and weakens possible Democratic support. The right isn't getting stronger, the left is getting weaker, these accounts just seem to be rolling with it. [edit] On these tweets James Woods got kicked from twitter for talking about it, he even states it's fake, ironically the banning strengthening the tweet more - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/24/conservative-actor-james-woods-tweeted-a-hoax-meme-in-july-twitter-just-locked-him-out-of-his-account/?utm_term=.615bcb7e3ff8 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/2...

imustbeevil 8y ago

Well, one example would be threatening people either directly or through violent public messaging. These are antisocial behaviors. Of the 10,000 words any human reads on any day, removing unnecessary negativity is an absolute virtue. This is the same reason we have spam filters. Would you consider Google to be censoring your email inbox? Wanting to force every human to see every other human's toxic dialogue is an invocation of Hanlon's Razor. Not an American issue by the way, if your country happens to vote this is happening in your elections too.

rghp 8y ago
If people were being threatened with violence, I'm sure that would be the focus of this article. And I'm also sure they would've taken it up with the authorities.
- deleted 8y ago
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- imustbeevil 8y ago
  You asked how to discourage someone from voting, not what the focus of the article was. I guess you meant that rhetorically and had a different narrative in mind.

drodgers 8y ago

Just think about it for a few moments, it's easy to come up with some ideas that would work on some people some of the time: Democrats certain to win "we don't really need any more votes" Polling both lines expected to reach record '4 hour' lengths! "No hope" for democrats come polling day DEA planning "surprise" drug-test sting at polling booths ICE planning "polling-day round-up!" Georgia electoral system "hopelessly rigged" — why your vote won't even be counted Now imagine that you were getting paid to work full-time at reducing turnout on social media and that it was something you believed-in — it wouldn't be hard to have some decent effect at the margins.