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I'm married to a Palestinian and so I'm hyper-aware about lip service, and I think you're right. My perception is that they are weak-minded people too naive or stupid to realize they've been conned into sitting out the election by a right-wing psyop. And they also have this mentality that a candidate has to be perfect in every way (by their standards) or they won't sully their purity by voting for them. They're the same sort of people who shop at Whole Foods because anything less than perfect should never pass their lips, and don't notice or care that it's just funnelling their money to Bezos.
You sure it was a right wing psyop?
Yes? Has been since before the rise of truly fake news on social media in the run up to the 2016 election.
It was all anti Hillary stuff, but of course the right is the embodiment of projection, and so trump latched on to the “fake news” term with glee to discredit any and all news that he didn’t like.
Right wing psyop for the purpose of ?
…the purpose of people sitting out the election? You know, the topic of the comment you responded to?
You guys are so close to understanding lol.
Winning the election, obviously. It's not a subtle implication, they basically said it, how are you confused?
Does it matter what happens in Gaza no matter who wins? Biden genocide. Trump clean up. As in ethnic cleansing. For who ? It's a two part formula.
elaborate