• Cris@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I honestly can’t tell what happened here… The article is confusing as hell and I can’t tell if its just too early in the morning for me, or if I’m dumb 😅

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      5 months ago

      Cameo is a website where you can pay famous people to send a recorded message to someone. People often use it to troll people (google the Zelensky controversy when a bunch of celebs unwittingly parroted Russian propaganda).

      In this case, a GOP official used it to make it look like his opponent was pro-LGBTQ issues, which is a bad thing in Republican’s eyes. They paid Mulvaney to say “thank you [insert candidate’s name here] so much for helping our cause” on video, basically.

      Weirdest part of the article imo is how they only call out the misgendering as an afterthought.