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
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Well, since you, personally, are a group of a hundred people with no ability to communicate nuance… yes. If you were an individual who could choose to add qualifiers and speak carefully with the goal of preventing more Trump, then you’d be able to criticise them. It’s just because you’re a media conglomerate with the subtlety of a truck that you can’t. Sorry.
/making-a-point