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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 lar
by 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 agoI 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 agoYou 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 agoThat 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 agoIn 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...