• @_stranger_
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    116 hours ago

    The people doing the upvoting are volunteers using their own accounts. Not astroturfing. Literally the opposite, they’re not getting paid.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      -216 hours ago

      Let me get this straight; you actually think if people are using their own accounts to feign organic popularity of social media posts, news stories, and political candidates for free, that’s not astroturfing?

      • @_stranger_
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        112 hours ago

        Let me get this straight, you actually think if people are using their own feet to walk and knock on doors for free, that’s not astroturfing?!

        Same concept, different landscape. Organized != Astroturfing.

        • @[email protected]OPM
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          -310 hours ago

          That’s the second best false equivalency fallacy I’ve heard over the past seven days! 👍🏾

          (Nothing was gonna beat “the electoral college is literally DEI for elections”, I’m sorry. Not to denigrate your efforts or anything!)

          • @_stranger_
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            045 minutes ago

            No offense taken. I’m actually a little jealous of you; I can’t disassociate from reality at will, but I can see how that would be super handy.