• jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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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.