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    2 months ago

    For people who don’t know the context (like me), here are some articles for reference. Though I’m the fact check police, I will not dive into this and leave it to other fact checkers:

    2019-02-11 Kamala Harris’ A.G. Office Tried to Keep Inmates Locked Up for Cheap Labor

    2019-08-01 Were Tulsi Gabbard’s attacks on Kamala Harris’ record as a California prosecutor on target?

    2020-10-30 WOW! After Keeping HUNDREDS of Black Men in Prison Past Their Release Date for Their Cheap Labor — Kamala Harris to Host Black Male Get Out the Vote Rally in Miami

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        2 months ago

        That’s not what I got from reading these articles, I posted them so someone else could check if the sensationalist propaganda poster makes sense.

        Now that you mentioned it, why do we on Lemmygrad need to be reminded that a specific liberal like Harris is garbage when all of them are? What kind of message is this kind of agitprop supposed to send, to vote for Trump/Republicans instead? Are we going to participate in electoralism in the US? Are we supposed to critically support the “lesser evil” like some US communist party claims?

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          why do we on Lemmygrad need to be reminded that a specific liberal like Harris is garbage when all of them are? What kind of message is this kind of agitprop supposed to send

          Because many here including lurkers from other instances may be swayed by the propaganda assault of the election by the media and the larger culture. It’s important to delineate why Democrats are not a lesser evil and why it is not good to vote for them. Why we must hold them to scorn and the light of their misdeeds. No one considering socialism is going to be a serious reactionary who needs to be disabused of a love for Trump. That’s a foregone conclusion on lemmy. So we focus on the audience we have and the new baby left we’re talking to.

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          The 3rd article you posted is from an alt-reich propaganda site. I can understand the information on that article being accurate, but it’s not a good look.

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            That’s interesting to know, which is why I posted these links in the first place, because the poster looks sensationalist and I couldn’t make a judgement on the accuracy of the claims, and I didn’t want to waste too much time looking up whether liberals are worse than they seem.

            (My uninformed view is that this poster is making a bullshit claim)