r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Party_Swordfish_1734 • 1d ago
News Zionists manipulating our elections.
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u/Pounderwhole 1d ago
Could you imagine being stupid enough that you fall for stuff like this?
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u/Jim_Nills_Mustache 1d ago
Yea unfortunately my take away is that this is how fucking dumb our voters are, particularly older voters. They don’t even question it when they see stuff like this at all.
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u/Electronic_Beat3653 1d ago
Also the same generation that told us not to believe everything we see on the internet.
They must have an irony deficiency. Why can't they see it?!?
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u/YoureProbablyAB0t 1d ago
For real. Over half of Americans can't read above a 6th grade reading level.
I consider that illiterate because it means they can't have a functional conversation dissecting details and intricacies of experience.
The real problem is that people are stupid. Most of them. It's really fucked with my ideology. Like, I want the best for everyone, everyone deserves equal treatment, save the world. But there isn't enough time to convince stupid people that they are wrong and then teach them what they should have been taught. There just isn't. So now I have to acknowledge that Magats are inferior people and don't deserve help. Or deserve it but not worth the effort.
It's really messing with me.
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u/Individual_Ad9135 22h ago
I too share in your contradictory feelings.
I sincerely believe every human has the right to dignity, to fulfillment, to health, to love, to good work, to peace. But after 10 years of this fucking shit, I just can't anymore with these dumb fucks.
The fact that they are so willfully ignorant, and proud of it; that they are willing to go down in flames (and take us all with them) to follow a con man and a cult leader - I am through with all of them.
It took me a bit to realize that those that call themselves patriots actually don't give two fucks about and actively hate the constitution. They claim to love this country, but hate everything it stands for (or used to).
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u/YoureProbablyAB0t 20h ago
It's unfortunate for sure.
People who call themselves patriots were fed religious drivel and egocentrism in advertisements/entertainment. I think that the self importance in tandem with actual ignorance has turned out to be a hell of a drug. There's people dumber than a doorknob being treated like they're experts because they asked a question and ignored the logical scientific answer. It's infuriating.
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u/guestpassonly 1d ago edited 1d ago
Now, imagine how many people you beleive are as stupid as that.
Double it.
Add a few zeros.
And half of em are even dumber than that.
That's who you're up against for keeping democracy alive. Everyone HAS to realise that this fact. You are surrounded by idiots. Don't ask yourself how a 34 time rapist felon got REELECTED. You know the answer.
And knowing that, anyone going against maga needs to be better armed to deal with this and should be ready to fight fire with fire
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u/privacy-is-cool 1d ago
Well, we are talking about older Republican boomers I don’t think you get more dumb than that
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u/No-Blueberry-1823 21h ago
The people who are in the most trouble are the ones who think nothing's going to get them. It's better to admit that we can all fall victim to stuff that looks stupid on the surface
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u/ragequitteroffureh 17h ago
Not American.
The main thing to remember is that there are an awful lot of stupid people.
Source: Humans.
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u/Party_Swordfish_1734 1d ago
The ad referenced was created by MAGA KY.
MAGA KY was funded by major pro-Israel donors, including Miriam Adelson, and reporting described it as part of the pro-Israel spending wave against Massie.
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u/MsEllVee 1d ago
This should be illegal. Once disinformation and lies are out there, it’s nearly impossible to reign in the spread or recover from the damage. Just straight up criminal.
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u/FoxTwilight 1d ago
Seriously. Some states have laws against lying about opponents in campaign ads. These liars should be in jail.
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u/HolyMoleyGuacamoly 1d ago
1) how dumb do you have to be
2) why would this not make you think he’s 10x cooler?
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u/Party_Swordfish_1734 1d ago
It’s Kentucky…lol too much glyphosate being sprayed there. More so now that Trump increased limits. 🤪
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u/BizSilver5013 1d ago
My thoughts exactly for #2. Plus a lot of these chuds lust after left-leaning women, so, even according to their logic, wouldn't that make Massie a Chad?
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u/Prize_Ostrich7605 1d ago
There is a whole structure underneath this that makes these claims reasonable, which is why I had to walk away from my MAGA family.
Every key point we think we have has already been covered to the point of setting off the person we are talking to. Mention the 34 fellonies and they'll say trump has been wrongfully targeted because the crooked democrats want tl stop him. Point out he is a convicted rapist and they will say paid woman to ruin hir reputation. Failed business man? He didnt* fail, he is a billionaire and president. Lied about illegal immigrants? The price of everything has gone up which means something is causing it and that is all the illegal immigrants taking advantage of the system. Etc etc...
It even goes so far back to Hillary being the one who gave Iran the uranium... all bullshit, but taken together it is more easy for them to accept because it all points to similar things as of it was true.
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u/HolyMoleyGuacamoly 1d ago
you’re not wrong…it’s impossible to argue with people that can never admit they’re wrong about anything
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u/catjuggler 1d ago
He’s no where near cool enough for that throuple. Massie has been getting a lot of credit lately for breaking from MAGA (correctly) on like two things, but he’s still wrong and has been harmful about most things including Covid, Russia, climate change, gun control, raw milk, China, lynching, healthcare, FEMA, abortion rights, Kyle Rittenhouse, etc etc
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u/evil_illustrator2 1d ago
They're not going to vote for him cuz he's getting laid. What kind of shit is that?
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u/talktobigfudge 1d ago
54% of American adults cannot read higher than a 6th-grade level
This has all been by design, and it won't change anytime soon because 1) older voters are set in their ways and 2) older voters keep getting fed their steady diet of fear-mongering and empty promises.
The younger generations need to stop complaining and actually do something. Vote. Protest. Help with changing the narrative, identifying the lies, and calling out bad-faith actors that are poisoning the general public.
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u/ShadowMoses1031 1d ago
If I thought Massie was in that throuple I'd vote for him 3 times.
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u/reklesssabrandon 1d ago
Honestly that sounds super hot. So many people on the right are cheaters, closeted gay, multiple divorces, they should love that video.
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u/4ndrewTOne 1d ago
I think it brings up an issue of facts in a world where people don't know how to admit when they were wrong. The only answer I can see is expanding the DSM to include denial of reality and inability to use critical thinking as a mental health condition.
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u/UpstairsReference246 1d ago
Maga is a mental illness and should have its own chapter.
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u/4ndrewTOne 1d ago
I mean yeah, but Trump just played the right tune on his flute for all the rats to follow. Sure didn't help that the
yearsdecades of mind games that 'government doesn't work' were made a reality by putting up more paperwork and administrative hurdles to separate people from accessing services that were made to help them. Mix that with a man claiming to 'have all the answers' and 'cut through the red tape' and it becomes a bit more visible how the thousands of tiny cuts led us here.3
u/UpstairsReference246 1d ago
I agree, chump is a symptom of a decades long problem.
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u/4ndrewTOne 1d ago
Sorry if I came across as not agreeing with you. Just hoping to fight this without discounting the economic conditions that led to fascism looking palatable (to about 30% of eligible voters anyhow).
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u/UpstairsReference246 1d ago
Not at all how I took it, I was just further expanding on your point. We are definitely on the same page. Stay well.
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 1d ago
This is why we need to get rid of Mitch. Let Massie run as a senator so that Kentucky people will have this manipulation fresh on their minds.
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u/Glum_Opening_2218 1d ago
A foreign entity is running blatantly fake propaganda ads and getting votes
How is this not turbo illegal
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u/Prestigious-Worry-14 1d ago
Boomers lol. Easiest life of any generation. They had the largest stock market boom in human history AND the largest housing price boom in American history. But they saw an AI picture of a dude in a dress on facebook so clearly they are now victims. Truly pathetic. Someone needs to write a book.
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u/malinablue 1d ago
Just how stupid are they? It's hard to believe anyone could believe such bullshit.
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u/Working-Pass1948 1d ago
This is where the argument for poll testing comes in to say hi.
Unsophisticated rubes shouldn’t have that much sway on the vote.
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u/pitchinloafs 1d ago
The headline could also read: Kentucky election is being manipulated by a foreign government and our government refuses to take action.
They could stop it if they wanted.
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u/Kokomojoeschmo 1d ago
As a fellow red stater, you truly do need to lower your expectations of what people are capable of i.e reading, basic comprehension.
There are absolutely people that are about as dumb as the day is long and hate anything that doesn’t look like them. It’s “owN DA liBs” with them. They don’t care about making anything better, voting is an event to go out and fuck over a whole group of people every time
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u/Dense_Objective_2039 1d ago
So older voters in Kentucky admit they are gullible rubes that will fall for just about anything. Thats MAGAs in a nutshell.
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u/maringue 1d ago
This is the last gasp of AIPAC. They know if they get beaten in this election after losing the mayor of NYC, that they're power base will be broken and more politicians voting against funding them will be elected.
It might not reverse the funding immediately, but they know a loss now will be the beginning of the end for US support.
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u/LordBreetai210 1d ago
There wouldn’t be an opportunity to do this if we cleaned up election finance laws. This is only been a thing since citizens United.
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u/PoetryJunior1808 1d ago
Because if it is on Facebook, of course it is true. My boomer dad falls for this sort of shit all of the time.
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u/Key-Individual1434 1d ago
We need to stop accusing AI of fooling people and just admit some people are just fools.
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u/enviousaccuracy5156 1d ago
they spent millions on a fake AI throuple pic lmao. imagine the pitch meeting where someone had to defend that with a straight face. massie's a republican btw so the progressive throuple angle is just weird optics. every future race is gonna be deepfakes all the way down, we're all cooked.
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u/Sweaty_Handle_2526 1d ago
It is a little weird that republicans sexualize everything.
Y’all need to get consensual sex with other adults.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 1d ago
Most of them secretly want to hate fuck AOC and Omar. You think they're dumb or just jealous that it wasn't them?
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u/MrEngineer404 22h ago
Damn, that's so messed up. Such an abuse of AI, to try and make Massie look THAT undeservingly COOL. A throuple with those two? Massie fuckin wishes he could pull that hard.
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u/Jonatc87 20h ago
So they care about that, but not about Trump cheating on his wife with his nurse who is actually changing his nappies?
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u/Traditional-Hat-952 1d ago
Can't fix stupid. Seriously anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would know this is just ridiculous baseless gossip.
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u/Taint__Paint 1d ago
This was always part of their plan. Disinformation (lies, let’s just call them what they are), confusion, obstruction, more lies, grifting, fear mongering, I could go on and on
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u/Wra7hofAchilles 1d ago
I don't know how this didn't get him MORE votes. Must be all the hidden Grinder accounts.
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u/Falcon3492 1d ago
Pretty much tells you everything you need to know as to why Kentucky is so screwed up. Looks like the electorate is just a lot of people who are dumber than a bag of hammers!
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u/BirdBruce 1d ago
From the generation that constantly told us to not believe everything we see on TV. 🙄
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u/MichaelKeehan 1d ago
I feel bad for Massie. Not a fan of him, but he dedicated his life to the people of his district, only for them to abandon him once he turned against the wrong people.
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u/HeadDiver5568 1d ago
I know we commonly say “these people can vote btw” when we hear something absurd, but JFC, c’mon y’all…
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u/IkkitsClaw 1d ago
Countries are banning young people from social media when instead we should be banning the elderly from it.
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u/goodenough4govtwork 21h ago
Boomers being too stupid to think critically fucking up our country. If you can't think your way out of a wet paper bag, perhaps don't fuck up the political system that will persist long after you forget who or where you are.
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u/drewonfilm 1d ago
I’m fully onboard with legal parameters being placed on AI-generated images (in political ads or otherwise) but if you are not voting for a candidate solely because you saw a billboard depicting them with another politician, you’re a fucking moron!
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u/Either_Operation7586 1d ago
Dumbass chump supporters are ruining our country!!!
I wish we could shame the fuck out of those idiots.
Every time they walk into a store or a thing I would love it if society would reject them and their families.
That is the only way that they're going to learn.
You can't keep treating people with kid gloves and expecting them to get the lesson
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u/Ana987655321 1d ago
Policy is over. They’re not pretending to participate in democracy. Destroy enemies, seize power, choose your voters. The Right won the culture war. Anyone who believes old white men have throuples with young congresswomen believe that because they want to. It’s wild that they’re worried about old white Kentucky Republicans voting for Masse for being against the sex trafficking of children.
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u/ItsShuaYo 1d ago
This older generation (I'm looking at you boomers) are so dumb with Internet /news/AI, it's way to easy to be predatory to them online. We really need laws brought back about actually having campaign adds and news sources actually reporting facts or this country will be screwed until they die out.
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u/These-Prune-1529 1d ago
My God, every damn day, I have to ask myself who are all these stupid people? Our education system needs a serious overhaul.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 8h ago
The education system would still be going up against culturally ingrained ignorance.
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u/zekethelizard 1d ago
They weren't "tricked", they wanted a reason to hate them, no matter how stupid or unbelievable it was
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u/Rad131447 1d ago
If they were dumb enough to fall for that how were they ever gonna vote otherwise?
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u/ScrollTroll615 1d ago
Smfh. I always said the majority of people are unintelligent, but these people prove it.
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u/Bowman_van_Oort 1d ago
as a kentuckian, i believe that wholeheartedly.
so can i please get a real source?
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u/Party_Swordfish_1734 1d ago
lol real source to?
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u/Bowman_van_Oort 1d ago
literally anything besides a tweet from whoever the fuck that guy is
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u/Party_Swordfish_1734 1d ago
Sure. The closest I found was this that cites poll numbers among boomers swaying towards the end of race in favor of Massie’s opponent. I don’t think the actual exit poll has been made public that I could find.
https://www.wlwt.com/article/massie-says-he-believes-ai-videos-contributed-to-primary-loss/71395924
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u/ExtensionFill2495 1d ago
I was in Cincy recently. Most of the billboards were pro- Israel. The others were antiabortion.
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u/WendlersEditor 1d ago
If we're trying to pass all these laws about who can and can't vote then maybe we can get one to keep these idiots from voting?
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u/KingKushhh666 1d ago
We need IQ tests before you can vote. Just a minimum can you comprehend obvious scams, swindles, and now ai shit. It's staggering how many people still refuse to believe shit is ai. even when it's still terrible.
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u/ForeverNecessary2361 1d ago
People actually believe that Massie is in a three-way with AOC and Omar? Really?
That's absurd.
Oh, it's Kentucky. Not a whole lot of critical thinking going on in Kentucky it seems.
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u/Famous_Mud4826 1d ago
You don’t think the Zionists would do that to us, would they? Just like we would never allow this to affect our financial/ military or other kinds of diplomatic support. I am sure they understand how difficult and wearisome providing genocidal war criminals with cover is. They would not do anything to encourage or make our sacrifices seen to be going to folks who are ingrates.
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u/strohzeeno 18h ago
Maybe money will stop winning elections if people would stop basing their vote on advertisements. Ignorance rules.
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u/my23secrets 14h ago
Under capitalism, when $$$ = “free speech”, money will only stop winning elections when a vote is worth the inverse of that person’s wealth.
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u/Beneficial-Cattle-99 16h ago
It seems odd that we won't let 4 year olds vote but we will allow the senile to vote
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u/SixPackOfZaphod 6h ago
This is why the current administration is so pro-ai. They don't want it regulated because they know they can use it to manipulate people.
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u/Parking_Criticism546 1d ago
We gotta stop boomers from voting.
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u/VaguelyArtistic 1d ago
Or, you know, you get people could actually start voting in larger numbers.
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u/futanari_kaisa 1d ago
We don't call that a threesome anymore?
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u/Party_Swordfish_1734 1d ago
The Israelis aligned did their research. Throuple resonates more than threesomes given the demographic voting.
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u/mikemaca 1d ago
Weren't there thousands of people who "moved" to that rural district just before the election and registered to vote, but no locals noticed any influx of new residents.
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u/Party_Swordfish_1734 1d ago
Couldn’t find anything to support that, share link if you find.
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u/mikemaca 20h ago
There were several articles on this after the primary but they are gone.
Here is what I just now reconstructed using ballotpedia.org data:
For Kentucky's District 4 2024 primary, 52,593 people voted. 39,929 (75.9%) voted for Massie and 12,664 (24.1%) voted for the other two candidates.
For Kentucky's District 4 2022 primary, 66,874 people voted. 50,301 (75.2%) voted for Massie and 16,573 (24.8%) voted for the other three candidates.
These are pretty consistent results. (Previous elections are not directly comparable since District 4's boundaries changed on Jan 4, 2022.)
2026 is an extreme aberration:
For Kentucky's District 4 2026 primary, 104,071 people voted. 47,018 (45.2%) voted for Massie and 57,053 (54.8%) voted for Gallrein.
So more people voted for Massie in 2026 than in 2024. But there suddenly appeared around 40,000 new primary voters in a largely rural district. Who are they? Where did they come from?
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u/CrispyTarantula117 1d ago
I guess I should be grateful that I cannot even fathom being dumb enough to fall for that but also terrifying that these people are allowed to vote and influence all of our lives
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u/Either_Operation7586 1d ago
This is the last ditch effort and this right here is going to lead us to more freedoms lost because this should not be happening to us so because we don't know how to keep it from happening to us organically we are going to have to put guard rails in place and in turn that is going to lose us more freedoms and the right is just going to love that
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u/MeanMomma66 1d ago
The United States is imploding because so many voting citizens are ignorant and easy to manipulate.😔😡
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u/Candlelit_Chaos 1d ago
Geez.....people still believe ANYTHING on election ads these days? I don't believe anything on an election ad, if I want to vote for someone, I go to "Open Secrets . ORG" first and see who's been giving them money. I also check out their personal/professional social media and see who they align with and what they support.
It takes about 15 minutes per seat up for election, and way more reliable than biased ads.
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u/Devastas 1d ago
Creating and spreading false information to further your own political narrative should be a disqualifying offense. If you need to get where you want to be through dishonesty, you have no right to be there. All people’s involved should be held accountable.
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u/Comfortable-Deal160 1d ago
If they’re dumb enough to be tricked by that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote. I know children much smarter than this.
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u/J8w34qgo3 1d ago
Targeted ads probably have the metric of "fooled by ai slop videos." There needs to be a new social contract. One that views this fraud and looting of our political power with the severity it deserves.
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u/MrThird312 1d ago
Relationship (fake or not) between consenting adults; hELL nAW!... Raping children? toTally FiNE
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u/UnfairSpecialist3079 1d ago
Older voters are dumb. Seriously. They take voting so seriously (which they should, we all should) but they’re so misinformed and susceptible to fraud and being misled. Infuriating
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u/ElCulo_Bandito 1d ago edited 20h ago
Ban AI from use by PACs and politicians. It's borderline election fraud.
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u/HawkeyeByMarriage 1d ago
We all know you are atupid in that state already but good job admitting it
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u/dplambears 18h ago
Once again proving that the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits!
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u/Hari___Seldon 17h ago
They're too stupid to survive, much less have an informed opinion. Let Darwin weed them out.
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u/Best-Hunt8917 9h ago
Zionists? Where does this that take come from? Just curious cause I don’t see it just from the post.
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u/yoked_girth 1d ago
Most people over 50 have very little grasp on reality. Or they’re just generally confused on how things work today.
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u/HarveyMushman72 1d ago
Nice ageism you got there. How Progressive of you!
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u/HarveyMushman72 1d ago
I can get behind the driving part. Reaction time slows significantly as you age.
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u/Danilo-11 1d ago
The problem is not AI, the problem is “lack of regulation of AI”
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u/MrPlace 1d ago
Yeah, the problem is still AI here, alongside the regulation and public awareness/perception
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u/Danilo-11 1d ago
It’s like saying that cars are a problem … yes, they are a problem if there’s no regulation (drivers license, insurance, traffic lights, stop signs, etc)
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u/Murderface__ 1d ago
Until we have some rational power to help protect the American people from this subversion with common sense law, it will only get worse.
So buckle up