“The Russians were pioneers of this … It has become harder and harder to distinguish Russians from MAGA on line, and for the purposes of this election it does not really matter.”
JD Vance is the central example of this. Sponsored by tech broligarchs, he behaves irl like a fleshy algorithm. He follows Kamala Harris around much as the comments section follows a cheerful tweet.
Here’s a pretty on the nose example. There are others more recent but that one, and the structure of the discussion after, are unusually crystal clear.
If that was meant to help me help myself to flourish, I’ll remain unflourished.
I do like how cheerful it is after being told to fuck off. Hitchhikers Guide's asshole cheerful doors are becoming reality, but with much more sinister purposes.
Oh wow somebody trolling the libs in his replies, truly inconvertible proof of russian bots on lemmy. I've known multiple people who share this exact sense of humor and would post like this.
How can you read "Thank you for engaging with my fascist propaganda that’s designed to cause a catastrophe in Gaza!" and not clock that he's trolling.
*ok I see I missed your point. It's not that they're a russian bot, it's that criticism from the left = maga = russian bots because any opposition to Harris is functionally the same. Criticism of complicity in a genocide is the same as saying don't vote for her she's secretly trans or whatever the actual maga crowd is saying about her. Truly its impossible for two things to be bad at once.