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Delarage

(2,330 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 09:50 PM Saturday

A friend of mine's nephew

Turned 18 this year. They are Black.... And my friend had to twist his arm to get him to vote. He told her that he feared his identity would be stolen if he registered to vote. So she thinks social media has been inserting absurd claims like that into his various feeds. I wouldn't doubt it.... Hi-Tech voter suppression 🤬

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A friend of mine's nephew (Original Post) Delarage Saturday OP
'social media has been inserting absurd claims like that into his various feeds' elleng Saturday #1
She's right. ... littlemissmartypants Saturday #2
This is how Pootie helped his puppet win in 2016 birdographer Saturday #3
Unfortunately, as Obama recently pointed out, soldierant Saturday #5
Wouldn't that be perpetrators of misogyny LuvLoogie Sunday #6
As a black woman, I have to tell you that NO black men won't vote for the party of hate & their orange degenerate... The_REAL_Ecumenist Sunday #8
That's kind of what I meant when I said (obviously not clearly enough) soldierant Sunday #11
Central Park Five. legallyblondeNYC Saturday #4
Oh---he's voting, and voting D Delarage Sunday #9
And, Trump wouldn't rent apartments to black people! legallyblondeNYC Sunday #10
... BlueWaveNeverEnd Sunday #7

littlemissmartypants

(24,756 posts)
2. She's right. ...
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 10:51 PM
Saturday

Propaganda is the weaponization of words and now AI and bots have made it child's play. It's everywhere. ❤️

birdographer

(2,398 posts)
3. This is how Pootie helped his puppet win in 2016
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 11:02 PM
Saturday

Reaching out to vulnerable people who are easy to manipulate with propaganda lies.

I do not understand any black person not voting for Harris. Trump wants them rounded up and sent to some other country to keep this country white. And they vote for him? Or they don't vote at all? Puzzling.

soldierant

(7,731 posts)
5. Unfortunately, as Obama recently pointed out,
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 11:29 PM
Saturday

black men are as vulnerable to misogyny as white men.

But I doubt whether many black men (other than black Nazis like Mark Robinson) will vote for Trump**. They' vote third party or not at all.

LuvLoogie

(7,491 posts)
6. Wouldn't that be perpetrators of misogyny
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 12:22 AM
Sunday

as opposed to "vulnerable to?" Men are men across demographics. If you ask yourself how many men are, mysogynistic, homophobic, anti-immigrant, don't care about the environment. Pretty soon race/ethnicity matter less as a political alignment. Show me a black man who checks those boxes above and I'll lay odds that's a trump supporter.

The_REAL_Ecumenist

(779 posts)
8. As a black woman, I have to tell you that NO black men won't vote for the party of hate & their orange degenerate...
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 06:49 AM
Sunday

Though there is misinformation or propaganda strong enough for enough black men to vote for trump, there are idiots & self hating folks in every group, trust me BUT we are NOT stupid, (black folks that is).

Do you REALLY believe that America has forgotten the unjustifiable murders of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, George Floyd, Philando Castile, Jacob Blake, Jayland Walker, Ahmad Aubrey, Daunte Wright, Ma'Khia Blake, Sonya Massey, Atatiana Jefferson, Breona Taylor, Sandra Annette Bland, Pamela Turner, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Alton Sterling, Stephon Clark, Tyre Nichols, Sr Airman Roger Fortson, 25 weeks pregnant Ta'Kiya Young, Laquan McDonald, Andre HIll, Manuel Ellis, Daniel Prude, Aura Rosser, Botham Jean, Freddie Gray, Janisha Fonville, Michelle Cussaux, Akai Gurley, Gabriella Nevarez, Tanisha Anderson & unknown countless others who have gotten MURDERED by police or racists. People of colour have been murdered by Police for literal centuries because COLOURISM & XENOPHOBIA but under decent administrations, there are attempts, at least, to bring some sort of justice to the survivors &/or the victims. HOWEVER, under the apricot antichrist, (I DO NOT understand why people like donold von shitzenpantz tries with all his might to paint himself as close to brown, well orangey bronze brown, as he can conceivably get...ah but I digress), Not only did that fat piece of "ILUVCOKE&ADDERALL" encourage murderous racists everwhere, he actually actively worked to get creeps put in place that would put the kabosh on prosecuting people who had MURDERED other people due to their skin colour, gender & ethnicity. Did I mention that mango mussolini and his closet case flunky are consistently LYING on Haitians, Countries and cities that have high populations of black folks? No ma'am, NOT today!

I have the same mindset on Latinos who, (Cubans & Latinos who share their viewpoints, notwithstanding), support a "thang" who talks about people who look JUST like them like red headed motherless stepchildren w/bad breath in OPENLY RACIST LANGUAGE. Hell, his "people" snatched children away from their parents, a decent number of those separated kids DIED fromTREATABLE sicknesses in their kiddie prisons & there are many more that can't be reunited with their families because NOONE thought about taking fingerprints of both the child and the mom or dad; Latinas were sterilised , (I'm sure there's a Crime Against Humanity somewhere in this rant), against their will AND knowledge, refusing to help save the lives of desperate people crossing the Rio Grande, so that they drown; stretching razorwire across that same iconic river AND, it appears, the border between Texas and NEW MEXICO! I do NOT believe that record numbers of MEN, let alone Men of Colour will be voting for that dementing disaster. This country will be saved by WOMEN, not just Black women but WOMEN because these f*ckers are drunk on their sadly mistakenly perceived power & have overplayed their hand, apocalyptically badly. TRUST ME!

Don't believe what you're hearing about black men voting for F@t@ssTrump because Kamala is a {{GIRL}} because outside of some mentally twisted individuals, (NOT many at all), Black folks, Men & Women aren't stupid; we're sick AF of hearing that annoingly nasal voice say BLATANTLY racist things, clearly mysogynistic dog whistles & clear disdain for both the military & the ACTUAL press.

soldierant

(7,731 posts)
11. That's kind of what I meant when I said (obviously not clearly enough)
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 09:54 PM
Sunday

that black men who will not vote for Kamala because of mysogyny will not vote for Tru,p** either but for third parties or not at all, unless they are fascists themselves and that's very few (but those few sadly very visible.)

legallyblondeNYC

(22 posts)
4. Central Park Five.
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 11:05 PM
Saturday

I hope someone educates this young man about TFG's actual activities against the Central Park Five. He called for the death penalty. Turns out, they were young and innocent. Ask him to look into it.

Delarage

(2,330 posts)
9. Oh---he's voting, and voting D
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 08:53 AM
Sunday

Or my friend and her sister and mother will destroy him. And my friend is as deep into politics as we are on this board---she was just as shocked as I was when he said that. He absolutely is surrounded by people who know what day it is; I'm just afraid that there are many other people out there (of all groups) who are being targeted by misinformation and don't have people around for an "intervention".

Faux News, AI, Musk, the travelling clown show.....that's how they either get voters or suppress voters. They make me sick.

legallyblondeNYC

(22 posts)
10. And, Trump wouldn't rent apartments to black people!
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 10:45 AM
Sunday

Great. I am hopeful that young people do learn the truth about the long history of insidious, racist action.

Trump and his father wrote a big "C" for "colored" on applications and then rejected them.

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