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submitted 7 months ago by germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 30 points 7 months ago

"I'm so leftist I'm voting for Trump" --some young voters unironucally

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

More like bots and bad faith commentators.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately, people like Peter Coffin, InfraHaz, and Caleb Maupin are confirmed to be not bots.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Those are what the Bad Faith addition is for.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago

I want to believe this, I do, but that would mean that !libertyhub@lemmy.blahaj.zone is filled with nothing but

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

119 subscribers, 5 users a day.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago

That describes like half of Lemmy though

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

There were sadly people in 2016 who protest voted for Trump to get back at the DNC for not nominating Bernie, even when Bernie begged them not to.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

Is there any evidence of that? I know that 12% of people who voted for Sanders in the primary ended up voting for Trump in 2016, but where's the evidence that they were ever Democrats? It's just as possible that they were Republican-leaning voters who were attracted to Sanders' message, or trying to sabotage the Democratic primary. That's a really good narrative for Clinton supporters to soothe their chagrin at the electoral college loss, but as that article points out, that number is actually pretty par for the course in elections.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Have you met any irl?

[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Like 12% of Bernie voters. I imagine meeting 12% of any demographic is rare.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I don't think enough Bernie voters flipped their votes to cause the Trump win. I do believe that many of them stayed home though, but I blame that on the DNC running Hillary Clinton on the most deenergizing platform. I did vote for her, but I didn't consider her a real progressive. She was just the status quo option when Trump was dementia flavored fascism.