What you need to keep in mind is that it’s not just voting, it’s also campaigning. If you’re a citizen who has opinions you share with your friends, that’s one thing. If you own a large online community that consistently puts out propaganda, that’s another thing. That’s campaigning. Voting for a candidate while campaigning against that same candidate is an action that confuses other people, because it’s self-defeating.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
What you need to keep in mind is that it’s not just voting, it’s also campaigning. If you’re a citizen who has opinions you share with your friends, that’s one thing. If you own a large online community that consistently puts out propaganda, that’s another thing. That’s campaigning. Voting for a candidate while campaigning against that same candidate is an action that confuses other people, because it’s self-defeating.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
So we’ve moved from “you have to vote for the Democrats” to “you can’t publicly criticize the Democrats”
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
You can publicly criticise them. It’s just when that criticism looks exactly the same as an org campaigning against them that it’s sus.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Lol. So you can’t publicly criticize them