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      • Heaven_and_Earth [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        But why do the Democrats have to had fund them? They probably found a new niche that the algorithm organically boosted.

        • Juice [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Oh damn I responded to the wrong thread.

          The democrats are actively funding far right candidates because they think they will be easier to defeat. During Roy Moore's camoaign, they also hired a company to monitor Russian bot activity, but that company ended up coding a bunch of bots to promote Roy Moore, and then the dems came out and said that it was proof Roy Moore was funded by Russia.

          They were slandering Trump as communist during his last campaign. Remember, they helped fund trumps campaign because they thought he would be easy to beat.

          I refuse to believe there is an organic, authentic movement of maga communists. That means there's probably some money behind it, or there are some content creators trying to hook some grift bucks. So its either dark money on the right, peter thiel, etc., or dark money on the left and this fits with a larger and long term strategy of the dems to fund "extremist" ideology they can pin on the right to scare their base. I think its the Democrats, you know, based on my perception of their tactics and strategy.

          https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/democrats-spend-millions-on-republican-primaries https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html

          • Heaven_and_Earth [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            I at least see the logic of Democrats funding their 'extremist' opponents, but I can't see why they would fund socially reactionary Marxist streamers.

            I could see the growth of disillusioned, newly politicized, economically left-wing, anti-establishment, and conspiracy oriented people as a viewer demographic which these streamers managed to capitalize on.

            But it's just speculation