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Your guide to the billionaire-backed groups working to push Dems right in 2026 (therealnews.com)

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[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Let’s stop voting for Democrats that’ll fix it

I think a whole lot of that comes from right wing bots, just like the whole astroturfed "Walk Away" campaign back in 2018. I wish I could attribute it completely to the right wing, but I'm sure a lot of edgy leftists are doing it too. The arguments are terrible, but some do seem to genuinely buy in. Somehow the answer to "Democrats bad" can't be "Replace bad Democrats with good Democrats".

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 2 points 6 days ago

I mean definitely at least some of it is astroturf. There have been some accounts that have been pushing that and then got caught with weird little inconsistencies in their story, or were using non-American number styles and then got confused when asked about it, or otherwise let the mask slip that they were not what they were pretending to be.