An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.
    • proper@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      my guess is it’s the influencer part. I assume people take offense at the idea they don’t have thoughts of their own and need some personality to tell them how to feel. I kinda was. I can’t even think of one “left-wing influencer”. I see people talking sanity sometimes which comes off as “left” to some but…

    • finitebanjo@piefed.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      It’s got a negative connotation to the people funding the only viable resistance to a new age nazi regime and an end to democracy.

      People pouring money on the DNC? Good. Keep it coming.

    • salty_chief@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Truth is why. Nobody can provide evidence that the Democratic party is doing anything but good deeds. This is a standard response. Downvote and ignore the truth.

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
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        9 days ago

        What the hell are you smoking? A genocide doesn’t qualify as a bad deed? What about the non-stop efforts to undermine challenges to the oligarchy? What about the straight up incompetence that lost to Donald Trump twice, running almost identical campaigns? What about raising billions of dollars and wasting it on useless consultants and their old media cronies?

        I’m a perfectly consistent Democratic voter. I also hate the Democrats, and you should too.

        • finitebanjo@piefed.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          The genocide is Natanyahu’s baby, the DNC withheld some weapons to their biggest and oldest ally in the middle east and build a pier to distribute aid, and the GOP sent those weapons expedited and said unironically death or exodus to every Palestinian.

          It would be nice if more Democrats said fuck Israel, yeah, but it would be just as nice to simply remove every Republican.

          • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
            31·
            9 days ago

            So, is there any little aspect of the DNC spin about Israel that you didn’t swallow whole? You really give them the benefit of the doubt about every claim they make?

            Biden and others explicitly participated in covering up what was happening, not to mention accusing anti-genocide campus protesters of being terrorists and anti-semites. Oh, and it turned out the Biden administration was flat out lying about pressuring Netanyahu for a ceasefire.

            I don’t know if you are speaking out of ignorance or just being completely dishonest. Either way it disgusts me.

            • finitebanjo@piefed.worldEnglish
              1·
              9 days ago

              What don’t you believe about what I said? You don’t believe an aid pier was built and distributed 20 Million lbs of food in addition to 2.4 Million via airdrop and 33 Million via land route? You don’t believe they withheld weapons, you think Trump lied about that so he could brag about delivering them? You don’t believe Pete Hegseth literally wants death or exodus of every Palestinian, a complete reversal of what the Biden administration was saying?

              Biden doesn’t run campuses. Universities are privatized in the USA.

              • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
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                9 days ago

                20 million sounds like a lot if you don’t know that Gaza needs at a MINIMUM 4.5 million pounds a day. Great, so that’s 5 days. This was well over a month after it became a famine. And why did we need a pier or airdrops in the first place? Trucks were lined up ready to bring in everything they needed, but were being blocked by our ally Israel.

                I do believe they withheld SOME weapons, and not many at that. We should have withheld ALL weapons because that’s what US and international law require when a genocide is being committed.

                You don’t believe Pete Hegseth literally wants death or exodus of every Palestinian,

                I don’t believe Biden wanted anything less. Even if he did, he did everything necessary to bring it about. His explicit attacks on protesters made his intentions entirely clear. Quit acting like he still has the mask on. The things he was saying and the things he was doing were entirely different. Netanyahu said that they’re trying to minimize civilian casualties. Do you believe that too?

                Biden doesn’t run campuses.

                I never said he did. I’m talking about explicit statements made both by him and repeatedly by his press secretary. He was repeating word for word slanderous AIPAC talking points.

                • finitebanjo@piefed.worldEnglish
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                  9 days ago

                  You believe simultaneously that the Biden administration was lying but that the Trump administration is telling the truth about genocide, why is that? Netanyahu has to lie, because his ass is justified for invasion in international justice court if he’s found guilty of attempting his genocide, but what would Biden gain? What’s his angle? Why spend hundreds of millions if not billions on supplying aid and withholding bought weapons, working towards the opposite of his supposed goal?