• echo@lemmings.world
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    20 days ago

    presidential endorsements create the “perception of bias”

    You know what else creates a perception of bias? Meeting with Trump right before withholding the Harris endorsement.

    Also… bullshit… it’s amazing how many people just get their marching instructions from their preferred newspaper. They don’t even pay attention. They will literally tell canvassers that they will decide who they are voting for based on what the paper says.

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      20 days ago

      They don’t even pay attention. They will literally tell canvassers that they will decide who they are voting for based on what the paper says.

      I had a conversation with my dad recently about it. he’s been a life long republican. In any case I had to remind him that I told him in 2016 that Trump was quoting hitler almost-verbatim. The only difference was that a) it was a more or less direct translation into english, and b) ‘jews’ were exchanged for ‘muslims’.

      he also kept demanding sources and I’m like ‘the source is trump speaking. trump said that himself. this is a direct quote’. (for example the ‘Dictator on day one’ comment.) same goes for political violence. same goes for everything in the 2025;

      like fucking hell, it’s exhausting. I tossed in the source on Fox being a right-wing propaganda rag for good measure.