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Hey Gaza / Free Palestine guys,

I'm pissed about the Kamala loss but that's not important right now. I need to know what media you were using.

Where did Free Palestine/ Gaza memes and discussions start?

I'm worried that the discussion is a right wing disinformation campaign designed to make us tear each other apart. I cannot find any legitimate politician (even far left ones like Bernie Sanders, AOC, etc. etc) that would have pushed the message of 'Joe Biden / Kamala is just as bad as Trump on the issue of Gaza'.

The only ones who would push that message are right wing trolls who try to separate us. So now I want to track down and confirm my suspicions. Who meme'd this? Where did you hear it? Was it Twitter? TikTok? Reddit? Facebook? Instagram?

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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I appreciate what you are trying to do but I'm not planning on being combative about this.

My mental model is that the majority of people having this viewpoint were caught up in a disinformation campaign tailor made for their viewpoints.

The election is over, it's not helpful to try to fight the viewpoint anymore. But it's more important from a media strategy to TRACK where this came from.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 8 hours ago

I hear you. There are certain types of argumentation that I see on Lemmy over and over again, and almost always leading towards a conclusion about not voting for Democrats, to the point that I react with a decent amount of hostility to them.