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The "creepy Joe Biden" ads are starting up.. videos of women talking about how they were inappropriately touched by joe, clips of little girls and women being touched as they recoil in disgust and Joe continues to touching them anyway...
Man this guy doesnt stand a chance in hell at winning the election, the election hasnt even gotten started and this is where we are at.
Meanwhile the democrats whole defense is "well Trump joked about doing what biden does once behind closed doors"... yea might as well skip the election at this point its already over.
Part of me wishes this would mean a third-party would finally win. But we all know that wont happen, so looks like another 4 years of Trump I guess :(
@freemo Related : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/07/trump-campaign-manager-brad-parscale-death-star
Death Star campaign coming up. Tighten Hatches, we will see people coming here to push Propaganda.
Not looking forward to it, freaking Circus that it is.
@design_RG Elections are something people get very engaged in, they tend to really care aobut the outcomes.
We will likely get some bots trying to push or sell a campaign/candidate. But I'd imagine most people will just be ordinary users who really care about discussing the election and want to push for their side. As long as they are a real user with STEM interests I have no trouble with that.
Certainly True though that Trump doesnt only have the moral high ground over Biden but the financial campaign funding superiority too. Biden wouldnt stand a chance even with equal funding, but with Trumps level of campaign funding, even less so.
Lets just hope that funding doesnt equate to mastodon bots.
@freemo I have already mentioned what I see as a Propaganda account, and I think it will only get worse.
To keep our sanity and our civility, plus the content the instance aims for, I suggest we need to plan and react quickly if this kind of user account (non-participating, partisan, adversarial, and completely alienated from STEM field or topics) pop up.
I would like a clear line - like we have for Advertsing, account removed immediately upon staff discretion. Reports to be kept, logs as usual, as we will respond for our actions as usual.
Propaganda is Advertising to the nth degree. Goebbels was the master mind of much we see nowadays.
@design_RG did you point out any examples of a propaganda account, if so I may have missed that.
Though i think the keyword in what you just said is "non-participating".. if someone posts content of any kind but otherwise does not participate in (doesnt respond to comments, doesnt comment on other peoples content) then I'd argue they are a account that auto-posts which is already against our rules. the other points listed are not as relevant at that point.
Even a person just posting about how awesome ice cream is, if they are a non-participating account it would get moderator action.
@design_RG Ahh i missed that post, ill read it.
Is this regarding that conspiracy theory guy who was posting? I didnt really see him as a propaganda account, per se.. he seemed to be largely about conspiracy theory nonsense, which tends to go hand in hand with anti-STEM people. Which was the part of that account that concerned me.
I'll respond on discourse tot he more generalized discussion though.
@freemo @design_RG „Conspiracy theorist“... I wish a much larger proportion of the population had critical thinking skills and research skills. This is the reason why the nazi regime in germany came to power, we all know the consequences.
@Mustang3x11 @freemo
I happen to be interested and have done reading in that period, Mustang. Care to extend your reasoning?
@freemo I did mention a specific account in our chain of DM discussions, and started a Discourse thread for this here : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/suggestion-extending-advertising-non-allowance-policy-to-encompass-political-propaganda-posts/214
...where the specific account is not named, but I can provide that easily; didn't include it as we need a general discussion and policy, but I do see this already present here. Arteteco is contacting that specific user and inquiring.