I've noticed the one Lemmy user in particular has launched a campaign of hate and racism towards Harris and it's kind of rough to see it go unmoderated.
I just block racist trolls... It's so easy, they add nothing to the conversation anyway. We don't have very many of them anyway, they can't figure out how to use Lemmy.
(Oh, and don't call them Nazis or racists or anything, though! The tone police will be out to claim to that this is why another Republican was trying to turn dementia donnie into pink mist)
“The leading Democrat presidential candidate’s mother was named Shyamala Gopalan,” Stew Peters, a former bounty hunter and current live streamer, posted to his 620,000 followers. “That should be enough for disqualification.” In recent months, Peters has amped up his vitriol against Indians and Americans of Indian descent.
Wait till this guy hears about the Trump VP's wife.
That is the fundamental creeping fear of a Harris campaign. I'm old enough to remember Scott Brown winning Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate Seat largely on the "Ew! Lady Senator?! Gross!" misogynist vibes out of the less savory corners of Chowder Country. Not hard to forget the suffocating Tea Party backlash that struck the country in the wake of its first Black President, either.
There's definitely going to be some number of Biden -> Trump voters purely based on liberal-flavored patriarchal white nationalism. The only question is whether they're out in the swing states. And, if so, whether they'll be eclipsed by a countervailing wave of turnout.
Well, the to old, sleepy, and dementia "arguments" have lost their grip, so, lacking any actual arguments, they moved on to racism to fight Harris. That is something their clientele knows and can relate to...
nice thing is it might stick with hardcore republicans which will anyway vote Trump but it might even push people on the fence to Harris' direction as they are not so extreme. This is the best kind of propaganda one can hope for.
Comparing propagandists and shills to the likes of Ken M is a disservice the art of trolling. It's like saying that eating crayons until one vomits onto a canvas to sell for a quick buck at a Sotheby's fine art/stolen cultural artifacts auction is comparable to Michaelangelo's David or Starry Night.
Honestly, who is surprised? Those people are clowns and I'm sure Harris has been dealing with this since becoming a public figure. Her race is lower hanging fruit than her laugh, at this point. I was more surprised by the laughing shit than I am of this!
Like I've mentioned before, just spam her word salads and expose her past. She's fkin done before she even started.
And btw, doesn't it make you wonder? Trump fills literal professional sports stadiums while Biden and Harris fills... at best.. a high school gymnasium. And yet... the polls... lol ah who am I kidding, this is mass hypnosis. An illusion.
Vaguely reference rhetoric and past without any specific objections then write her off?
Reasonable people not wanting to go to a political rally in person in 2024? I have better ways to get information and support candidates than standing around like an idiot all day.