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The "no" voting reply guys are relentless and, call me paranoid, it's hard not to conclude that we're being subjected to some kind of large scale attack.
And could we just be the testing ground for disinformation campaigns that will really kick off for the 2024 Presidential election?
I feel like this happened before with the gay marriage referendum? Or is it worse?
I tend to tune the background noise out
I was quite involved in the marriage equality campaign, it was nothing like this! This referendum is way, way worse.
I definitely don't remember the same amount of no propaganda in public/publicly visible areas with the marriage equality campaign. Fucken stickers pasted on the inside of one of the trams I took today - someone had torn as much off them as they could but it was all "urban Aboriginals getting more handouts" and "this will divide Australia". Nothing that vicious and pervasive for the marriage equality thing
Have a look at their account age and posting history, I reckon there's totally a disinfo campaign going on. Mostly I blame the evangelicals but there's a lot of people who benefit from conservatism enough to maintain it.
Voter manipulation is already a thing. Have a look at the Cambridge analytica documentary, The Great Hack, on Netflix. In one country, they did a campaign to convince young voters to not vote out of protest (now if you apply the tiniest bit of logic, not voting is the worst way to protest anything, you are letting the opposition win unopposed). But people fell for it and it swung the election against the targeted demographic. Victory for the manipulators. So yeah, it’s real. Aspects of the no campaign are using similar tactics with ‘don’t know vote no’, convincing people to give up their participation. Be very very wary of people trying to convince you of staying ‘unknowing’ or throwing away your vote. On any topic.
The point isn't to change the vote, the point is they are creating social division.
Absolutely, whip up division to keep the proles distracted.