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This country continues to depress me. It really should be way higher.
"nearly half" so over 50% of US adults are mentally challenged it seems
Well, remember George Carlin when he said something along the lines of "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half the population is dumber than that."
Probably more, some that are mentally challenged awknowledge Trump is terrible, they are just mentally challenged in a nother way.
There's something that needs to be done, and that something is drastic, and a lot of people don't want to hear, or see it. But we can't keep going forward as a country where more than half of people are violent sociopaths, or enablers of the latter.
More than half of US citizens are fascists? That does not surprise me.
That means a majority approve or don't care. We're fucked
45% disapprove the National Guard deployment, while 38% said they approve.
So 38% are enemies of Constitution and country.
The Authoritarians- a book by Prof. Altmeyer- says there's about 1/3 of the population who are authoritarians and that percentage is pretty constant no matter what one does. SO it sounds about right
I hadn't heard of that book before. Looking it up, it's a book about the psychology of authoritarianism, backed by research and receipts. I'll add it to the top of my reading list. It also seems to be available for free on the author's website. Thank you for this.
Anytime there's a poll, it's always the same 30-39% of shitheads liking the bad thing.
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That every American doesn't approve of Trump's handling of protests is shameful.
Did you perhaps mean disapprove?
That every American doesn’t approve of Trump’s handling of protests is shameful.
Quite the contrary. But looking at your post history, I wonder whether you accidentally said the opposite of what you meant.
That's a lot of people who saw a reporter get shot and went "I'm cool with that".
I'm joking. Most of them probably aren't paying enough attention to have seen that.
Most Americans probably haven't even seen the video. The average person is unbelievably clueless. My friends Instagram reels is animated screaming cucumbers and more brain rot. 0 news, 0 information, just straight retardation. Each of our media spheres is individually tailored and that is a massive problem when it comes to getting people on the same page.
I feel like most of my friends follow the news, but I bet you're right that most people are just in a haze of screaming cucumbers.
I’ve seen people claim she deserved it for blocking traffic.
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US is lost
Nearly half eh? Yeah less then half checkes out.
Nearly half of Americans don't understand that when an illegal and immoral tactic is used against someone you don't like, it can then be used against you too. Dumb fucking Americans.
We need to start finding ways to take away the rights of Evangelical Christians. Let them see how it feels for once.
Have you considered wishing them Happy Holidays?
The other half voted for him.
So over half of Americans aren't concerned with accelerating authoritarianism? Great.
They will be, when it affects them personally.
In other words, typical Republican thinking.
There's a meme out there that goes something along the line of "Nothing Ever Happens". This line of thinking is poison, as it doesn't take into account incrementalism. The fall into fascism isn't a single large step, it's many small steps until one day you've realized that you're no longer in the same place that you were, and that now, you're lost.
It's already affecting them personally, they've just been brainwashed into blaming the wrong people
A lot of Americans barely understand how the government actually functions.
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If a majority of Americans approve then the problem will not go away if Trump goes away.
Wow, we got ALMOST half of America to understand that it's bad when presidents send the military to threaten Americans.
That almost makes me think our inevitable decline as a nation will happen slower than I originally thought.
The other half are as dumb as a bag of hammer.
That’s right. Just one hammer. With measles.
That percentage is insanely low. What is wrong with the fuckers that approve?
Mass propaganda. Meta and google promote pro trump propaganda now too
A significant lack of education mixed with misguided hatred.
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If "nearly half" disprove that means more than half approve.
That's fucking disgusting.
There's always a good percentage that are indifferent or "don't know". But they're no help.
So basically the same outcome as the election. People haven't changed.
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Per the article:
47% of U.S. adults disapprove of of deploying the Marines to LA, with 34% approval.
45% disapprove the National Guard deployment, while 38% said they approve.
That leaves 19% and 17% that are undecided. The question for those would be are they uninterested or uninformed?
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Less than the majority is depressing, but don't forget how the media is covering this. MAGA eats this shit up, obviously, but even your standard semi-informed people are getting "riots on the street of LA" bullshit on their local news outlets.
I'm actually a little surprised it's "almost half" in disapproval, given how badly this is covered. I wonder if TikTok and Bluesky are helping, the latter being obvious but the former being surprisingly good at showing what's actually happening on the ground-- at least a lot better than Meta and X options.
Yeah, also even though it's "almost half" there's more people saying disapprove than approve, so there's a large number in the "unsure" category right now, and the more we find out about who's being deported and how and what the cops will do to suppress these protests the more that disapprove number will go up
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These are some depressing numbers.
47% of U.S. adults disapprove of of deploying the Marines to LA, with 34% approval.
45% disapprove the National Guard deployment, while 38% said they approve.
... An equal share — 45% — also disapprove of the protests against ICE, per Monday YouGov polling.
36% said they approve of the protests, and 19% said they are not sure.
58% of Democrats said they approved of the anti-ICE protests, compared to 15% of Republicans.
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So more than half are okay with it or don't care about it.
Nothing has changed since the election.
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That's because there are hundreds of millions of racist fascists here.
Between 33% and 38% of Americans shouldn't be allowed to make decisions because they are incompetent or vile. That's how many have never wavered in their support of Trump.
But I am shocked here at the extra 12+% who aren't outraged by what's happening now. Is that the 11% of Libertarians? (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/08/25/in-search-of-libertarians/)
Libertarians are just right wing fascists who don't like paying taxes
Wrong. Libertarian understand that the slavery is still here. Watch the movie Jones Plantation to understand it deeper if it is not that obvious yet. Involuntary taxation is theft. Government is the largest criminal organization.
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