More specifically, for confirming that a story being negative about Biden was the main criteria they were using to select stories to post, that they wanted to select and post bad stories about Biden specifically.
I’m actually not convinced that ozma’s participation here is actually hurting Biden, just because it’s so blatant and has actually promoted on Lemmy the narrative “most criticism of Biden is made up from people trying to hurt him for political reasons, and here are a bunch of rebuttals to it” much more than it has promoted the face value narrative “Biden is bad and everyone thinks so.”
I actually think what is a lot more harmful, is the flood of users who come from nowhere to post quick “Hey we all agree Biden hurt black voters and they shouldn’t vote for him” comments (or whatever) on any story having anything to do with him, to create a sort of false impression of consensus. ozma’s obvious enough with what he’s doing that people can pretty clearly see it. The fake accounts are harder to spot (enough so that maybe I sound crazy from saying I think that’s what’s going on). So like e.g. one place where you can see it really clearly is in the beehaw politics subs – most stories just get votes, and maybe like a couple of comments, but then anything Biden related gets this big dogpile of random accounts coming in to say more or less the exact same narrative about how he’s bad for some particular reason. To me it is fairly clear that it’s not just an organic population of people who care about Biden and Biden only and no other area of politics and mostly happen to have exactly the same opinion about him.
(And also, I don’t think that confirming specifically that the reason you’re posting a clearly bad faith flood of artificially slanted articles, is exactly what it clearly is, should be the bar for getting banned. I have no idea what the actual criteria should be, because it seems like it doesn’t have an easy answer, but I don’t think the bar for banning someone should be their self-described intent.)
Temp 3 day ban. I read the pinned post. I’ve posted plenty of other news articles that aren’t about Biden or Trump. I finally post news about latest polling that doesn’t paint Biden in a positive light and people lose their minds.
You’re looking at national polls. This article is about Milwaukee…
Black voters in Milwaukee. An influential bloc that can determine if the state remains blue or flips this fall, these voters have serious and lingering doubts about Biden and whether he’s delivered on his promises to them. There’s no danger that Donald Trump will carry this historically Democratic city in November. But there is a considerable risk that an anemic showing in Milwaukee could cost Biden this critical swing state — and possibly the election.
You’re right. Biden’s doing great and has 100% of the Black vote on lock. Ignore the polls, ignore any criticism as just disinformation. Nothing to see here folks. That’s a wrap. /s
Weren’t you banned for posting negative articles about Biden?
More specifically, for confirming that a story being negative about Biden was the main criteria they were using to select stories to post, that they wanted to select and post bad stories about Biden specifically.
I’m actually not convinced that ozma’s participation here is actually hurting Biden, just because it’s so blatant and has actually promoted on Lemmy the narrative “most criticism of Biden is made up from people trying to hurt him for political reasons, and here are a bunch of rebuttals to it” much more than it has promoted the face value narrative “Biden is bad and everyone thinks so.”
I actually think what is a lot more harmful, is the flood of users who come from nowhere to post quick “Hey we all agree Biden hurt black voters and they shouldn’t vote for him” comments (or whatever) on any story having anything to do with him, to create a sort of false impression of consensus. ozma’s obvious enough with what he’s doing that people can pretty clearly see it. The fake accounts are harder to spot (enough so that maybe I sound crazy from saying I think that’s what’s going on). So like e.g. one place where you can see it really clearly is in the beehaw politics subs – most stories just get votes, and maybe like a couple of comments, but then anything Biden related gets this big dogpile of random accounts coming in to say more or less the exact same narrative about how he’s bad for some particular reason. To me it is fairly clear that it’s not just an organic population of people who care about Biden and Biden only and no other area of politics and mostly happen to have exactly the same opinion about him.
(And also, I don’t think that confirming specifically that the reason you’re posting a clearly bad faith flood of artificially slanted articles, is exactly what it clearly is, should be the bar for getting banned. I have no idea what the actual criteria should be, because it seems like it doesn’t have an easy answer, but I don’t think the bar for banning someone should be their self-described intent.)
Temp 3 day ban. I read the pinned post. I’ve posted plenty of other news articles that aren’t about Biden or Trump. I finally post news about latest polling that doesn’t paint Biden in a positive light and people lose their minds.
Look at the article and poll data objectively.
Poll data:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/?ex_cid=abcpromo
Looks like they’re in a tie and Biden is trending upward, while Trump is trending downward.
You’re looking at national polls. This article is about Milwaukee…
It sure would help if, when telling someone to look at the polls, you told me which polls.
Can you link to the poll you’re talking about in specific? Or are you just talking about what this article claims?
It’s linked in the article…
https://law.marquette.edu/poll/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MLSP78CrosstabsLV.html#D1B:_Trump_vs_Biden,_leaners
Those are job ratings. Just because you don’t like a job someone is doing doesn’t mean you aren’t going to vote for them.
You’re right. Biden’s doing great and has 100% of the Black vote on lock. Ignore the polls, ignore any criticism as just disinformation. Nothing to see here folks. That’s a wrap. /s
I said nothing of the sort. Do not lie and put words in my mouth or I’ll start flagging your posts.