US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that he had signed a declaration to expedite delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel, in what he cast as US President Donald Trump’s rejection of restrictions placed by predecessor Joe Biden.
The Trump administration, which took office on January 20, has approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to Israel, Rubio said in a statement, adding that it “will continue to use all available tools to fulfill America’s long-standing commitment to Israel’s security, including means to counter security threats.”
I know there has to be a non zero number of people who thought this way, but I have to wonder how much of this sentiment was stirred up by say Russian bots and paid bad faith actors.
I’m getting the same vibes now when I see all the “bold of you to assume there will be elections”, without fail on any post or comment that brings up the next elections. Trying to drive this idea and normalize it.
Like how advertising works, eventually a percentage of people who have seen Cola Brand ads enough times will want to buy Cola Brand.
That’s not excuse though.
According to the words Vance said in EU, if a democracy is threatened by digital advertising, then it is not a strong democracy.
If your argument is true, and a vote can be biased by the amount of times a voter watches an advertisement, then elections are simply a matter of who has the most money.
Other countries have rules about these things, like how long before an election they can start advertising, they have to show where the money for it came from, they prohibit money from abroad to be used in campaigns, they have to say what party paid for the add etc.
USA is actively working against these rules and calling it the right of free speech.
usa@lemmy.ml is curated bad faith arguments (from recent weeks experience). We have that here as well.