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Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • Nice argument, Senator. Why don't you back it up with a source?

  • "Aw, now they're warring over whether to prefer a market-oriented potato chip economy with elements of state control, or a state-oriented potato chip economy with elements of market direction! How quaint!"

  • "Blah blah blah!"

    At least I have a record of Velvet Vic to soothe me.

  • Read the whole thing. Everyone involved in this, author included, seems to be batshit insane?

  • I'm about halfway through.

    I didn't realize Mastodon was big enough for so much fucking drama.

  • [sick techno-bass drop]

  • 72% of voters say they want Ukraine to negotiate a settlement with Russia instead of winning the war. 60% of voters favor Trump announcing direct U.S.-Russia negotiations (Democrats: 40%; Republicans: 85%; Independents: 53%).

    59% of voters oppose the Trump administration leaving Ukraine's leaders out of negotiations with Russia. 55% of voters oppose the exclusion of European leaders.

    57% of voters oppose the Trump administration forcing Ukraine to make territorial concessions to end the war, and 66% of voters say Ukraine should receive security guarantees from the U.S. if it were to make concessions.

    61% of voters say security guarantees should be contingent on Ukraine sharing revenue from rare earth elements to pay back U.S. military support.

    63% of voters believe Russia will continue to advance onto other countries if it successfully claims Ukrainian territory.

  • You can check the poll's methodology, probably. It's Harvard.

  • They won't learn a goddamn thing. They'll vote for him again.

    This won't help anyone. Not the country, not the left, hell, not even the right.

    But you know what?

    I'm done with empathy for these fucks.

    I'm glad they're suffering.

  • Ah, so intelligence is measured in how many votes talking points get. I guess Trump's bigly brain really is just very stably out-geniusing all of us.

  • Take it from someone who has regularly played that card against conservatives:

    They don't care. It doesn't even faze them. They trundle on with their lives and their opinions like nothing was said.

  • The really sad thing is, I believe, even with the American education system being sabotaged by the right, we're probably better educated now on average than at any point in the past.

    The difference is that the right formed a new coalition in the 80s, and got new propaganda tools in the 90s (Fox and other right-wing misinformation outlets) and 2000s (online disinformation). Being slightly better educated isn't enough to counter that.

    And now it's going to get fucked even harder.

  • Why not?

    The Trumpoids march in lockstep with each other, repeating the same, predictable, consistent lines.

    Dems don't. Dems have deep and very heated disagreements over issues that most Americans don't care about, or care about but don't understand, and are frustrated that the issue is complex and not solved by saying "I solve it".

    To an inattentive observer (ie most Americans), it looks like one side has all their ducks in a row and the other doesn't.

    Add in a dash of long-standing racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and a very "Me me me" attitude towards foreign affairs, and you have the American electorate.

    Why wouldn't they believe this?

  • Yeah.

  • I guess that’s my point. If the poll is not based on anything other than bullshit, what’s the point of giving it any consideration?

    Because people approve of bullshit. Because people vote based on bullshit. Because people form their worldviews on bullshit.

  • The parts of the economy that are/were going well are from Biden’s inflation reduction measures. Likewise, the shit economy in 2021 was what Trump’s COVID response brought him. Like it sounds like a double standard on the surface, but the idea is that Trump and Musk are currently breaking the government, but people are only going to start feeling it in a few months.

    That's a fucking dream. People don't react to reality. They react to their perceptions. And everything has been tee'd up for the Trump regime to dictate the perception of the mass of Americans who don't follow politics or don't care, in addition to already controlling the perceptions of their party-line goons.

    Trump, like Hitler, will be able to run the country into the ground, and still have majority support a decade after everything has been turned to rubble.

  • Polls from Gallup, Ipsos, CNN, and Quinnipiac show Trump's approval rating between 45-47% while one from YouGov puts him exactly at 50%.

    This poll:

    Donald Trump's favorability stands at 50%, with a net favorable of +7 points.

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