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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

His followers don’t think he lost, remember. Most of them still think he’s president.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, and strangely, this is true. Although, ironically, they’re still voting for him.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They are not voting for a third term president. They’re voting for a forever term dictator.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but my point is they’re voting for him even though they claim he’s still the president in office. Why are they voting if he never left the office? It’s just weird.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Because they are insane

[–] Panurge987@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'll be voting for Biden even though he is in office. Is that weird, too?

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Argh, I badly worded it. Yeah that’s a fair point. It’s semantics.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If not for the ridiculous system and the insistence of the DNC leadership on making sure he's the only alternative to fascism, yes.

Voting for Biden WOULD be very weird if you were not doing it under duress.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

But he's still a loser so we have that

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's this thing I've noticed on Facebook, I don't fully understand but they post things Maga really want to be true like 'try that in a small town singer smashes tailor swift attendance record' with an obviously unrelated or fake picture. The comments are almost everyone acting like it's true, there was one about some woke companies share value falling fifty percent with everyone celebrating then once comment linking to a share price tracker pointing out its not even close to true.

I don't know who makes them or why but the comnent section believes them.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is why I deleted all of my social media accounts years ago. All I have now is a mastodon account.

I don’t really consider this social media in the same way. Lemmy is a social news aggregator, so it’s adjacent to social media, but people here aren’t friends, we’re all anonymous. It’s not really the same thing. Perhaps one might call it “pseudosocial media”.