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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 26 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I was expressing election stress to someone over Discord and they told me they didn't want to talk about the election (which is fine in itself) because "Joe and Trump are both bad." 💀 I'm like... Do you not even know how the candidates are? I didn't want to push the topic because they didn't want to talk about it, but I'm sure the answer would've annoyed me.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

That's a pretty common authoritarian propaganda technique. Like, most Russians do think Putin is bad but they've also bought into the idea that all politicians are bad. They don't realize that most people aren't former KGB agents in bed with the Russian mafia.

Both candidates (in this case a candidate and a former candidate) being bad might be true but it doesn't mean both are equally bad. And it's always "both are bad" never "both are good".

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No. They really don't. I was getting some coffee at a drive-up place where they always leave the window open after they take your money, so you can hear them talking. This was maybe a month before the election. One of the workers thought Trump was still the president. They had to tell her who Joe Biden is.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

How are people that disconnected, how do you not hear who the president is even just by accident?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

I honestly do not know. I was floored.