I think these polls are interesting but tell us more way more about the media landscape than the people being polled.
For starters, about 3-5% of the population has ASPD or borderline symptoms. About 1/4 of the general population suffers from a mental illness and 35-50% of extreme cases go untreated in high income countries.
So right there we would expect probably ~10% of the population completely disconnected from normal social function. In the USA those numbers are probably a bit inflated because conservatives have consistently gutted any programs that might target those issues and keep people functioning in society.
Of course that’s not to say everyone suffering from an untreated mental illness is automatically a fascist. What’s interesting is how the GOP (and Heritage Foundation and Koch brothers, et al.) have accomplished is a near total capture of that population.
When was the last time you interacted with someone completely unhinged (*in real life) who wasn’t spouting fascist propaganda? Gone are the halcyon days of off-putting, but relatively benign, alien/bigfoot conspiracies. Those vulnerable groups have been co-opted and put into lock-step with fascism via targeted disinformation.
Amplify that skepticism into the mainstream and suddenly you’ll have another 10% or more who find its palatable and convenient to accept simple and ugly regressive answers to their problems (“Mad about healthcare? You’re smart enough to know that’s not a lizard people conspiracy, it’s brown people taking your taxes!”). Believe it or not, people can be racists or asshole without automatically licking fascist boots and signing up for ethnic cleansing.
Then take that solid 20% and astroturf a bunch of hateful fascist narratives online and another apathetic chunk will just go along with it ("Well I didn’t look too closely but 15 RealAmericanPatriot accounts said it was self defense, they can’t all be wrong")
All this to say if you see 80% in a US poll that is universal support from the general population that exists in the same universe as you. If you see more than 80%, then the fascist base actually cracking. From that perspective these polls are mostly rage bait because you won’t see a change in polling until the change is really obvious in real life.
On the other interpretation: 27% are so dumb or uninfomed that they still believe what the federal government says.
It’s good, 1% learned somethiing!
ICE is a terrorist organization
I feel like 27% of America is irredeemable
Humanity*
That’s generally the percentage of humans who lack empathy and/or abstract reasoning skills.
Like charlie kirk
I think a certain set of people just don’t have the bandwidth to deal with the complexity of the modern world so just accept the simplest loudest solution. Its not neccesarily lack of empathy so much as a perception of protecting their tribe.
That’s not fair to humanity. This is a Western problem, and America is the West on crack (fent?). People make mistakes everywhere, but in America/much of the West even the concept of objective rights and wrongs are debatable, which allows for even more amoral excesses. This is why their discourse revolves around whether things are “constitutional” or “legal”, because objective morality is not in their psyche, so saying right and wrong doesn’t come naturally to them.
What a bunch of absolute nonsensical shit to type out.
Look at the username and it all makes sense.
I mean, yes, monotheists like Moses and Jesus also spoke about objective truths, rights and wrongs (“thou shalt not kill” etc etc). Of course it sounds like nonsense to you, lol, if it didn’t we wouldn’t be where we are!
The other day he assured me that I molest children because it’s just in my nature. I don’t ever recall diddling a kid, but he must be right because who am I to argue against nature.
Do you mind posting that here? I kinda doubt I said “you diddle kids”. Are you sure this is not just confusion coming from lacking reading skills?
You think it’s my first day on the internet? I don’t feed trolls. You remember calling me that, and if you don’t, you post too much.
Memory is not infallible.
Dude, you’re everywhere making low-effort bad takes about everything. I get that you like to start arguments, but I really wish you’d put more effort and skill into it. Then at least arguing with you would be interesting.
Sure.
Mmmh. Okay, sure. Give it some time, eventually even the West will open their eyes to the obvious truth. 🤷
I guess that dude was heading right for that tank…
He walked towards it, and talked to the operator, lol. They only show you the other picture for spin reasons. In America you used to get casually pepper sprayed, now you get casually murdered. 😔
Some may go as far as to call them deplorable
Nazis
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there’.
This whole ordeal has been illuminating when it comes to seeing some people’s morals and integrity. We have way too many evil bastards living among us.
That phrase has been forever tainted, no matter the gravity of the topic I can’t not think of those fucking bean people
I’ve been yapping about it for a while now, maybe now people will listen. It’s too late to fix American society IMO but maybe they could emigrate and start new lives elsewhere without being dangerous pariahs. 🤷
27% of USians think this is justified. Let that sink in. You don’t need to be able to read or write to watch the videos.
27% of USians are subhuman predators.
You don’t always have to look at our past for comparisons, you had stuff like that in the past too.
We need more community defense classes now more than ever. Seriously!
what’s the first picture?
First, the preface: I am in no way making any excuses for these subhuman shitstains. They deserve the same level of treatment they’re gleefully handing out.
The question: is that blackshirt bottom right trying to get the muzzle away from Mr Pretti’s head as it appears in the image? (Edit: I’ve not seen all the footage)
No. The murderer is standing behind him to the right and there is more distance between them than there seems from this still angle. The murderer had already started firing, seemingly having made up his mind moments before that he was going to execute Pretti. The other agents are simply jumping backward and stumbling over the sound of gunshots.
I see. Thank you for clearing that up.
How literate do you have to be to understand murder is wrong? 🤔
“Murder is only wrong if it is happening to me!” – 27% of Americans, apparently
Level 2, apparently.
This is insulting to illiterate people.
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Wait no, I’m dumb.
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If those 28% could read they would be very upset right now.
It is nauseating that such a high number approve. I just can’t accept that. Is this thing broken? Is it even on?
It’s the 27% Crazification Factor. I read this years ago and it never seems to fail.
25% also has an IQ lower than 90.
Yeah, but I know some pretty smart dumb people and some pretty dumb smart people. I don’t think it’s IQ thing, at least alone (don’t event really buy the whole IQ thing).
There is different types of intelligence people use. Those who are technically intelligent, but not…let’s say emotionally intelligent are why we see this happen.
Wish I had more upvotes to give, spot on.
Sure IQ has been misused a lot but IQ can still be used to estimate the demographic distribution of a population on one axis. Since it’s sort of normally distributed. Like BMI it should not be applied to individuals. It just shows how many people of a population deviate from the mean. And yes it’s not IQ alone, but still telling that those numbers are close.
it’s basically our wolfman constant, only with wildly dangerous results
So literacy is improving; Up to 73% from 72% 3 years ago!
#SilverLining #Sarcasm
Americans realising things about other Americans that the rest of the world already knew.
Man the pandemic already opened my eyes to this.
Yeah. This has been incredibly eye opening. I am disgusted by the actions of the people in power here.
These are the types of people I was raised to believe no longer exist after the second world war.
Growing up is depressing.
