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[–] 53 points 8 months ago (1 child)

The persistent 1/4-1/3 of Americans who prove themselves to be traitors to humanity time and time again.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    You mean to tell me, in an Election Year, it would be the BEST Political Move for Congress to use their Constitutional Powers to bring WORLD PEACE? Wow! Let's do the Opposite!

    -Congress ESPECIALLY Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries!

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah so they both might be pieces of shit, but without 2/3rds support they cant stop anything. So they would need 75 Republicans in the house and 19 Republican senators to go against Trump.

    The media machines are rolling, and Republicans are already starting to fall in line. They don't care about the hipocrasy of claiming their leader was a dictator and treats women badly, nor do they care that the nuclear weapon creation shit is lies. They would invade Afghanistan and Iraq again tomorrow to double down on their commitment to hating people who are different looking.

    The Democrats don't have the numbers to change anything here.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Let's see how this goes before gloating.
    Obviously Trump is insane, and congress failed to stop him by waiting to interfere when it was obviously imminent, until it was too late.
    Media propaganda is very likely to turn the tide on public opinion, that's what happened with Geoge Bush when he invaded Iraq.
    People who opposed it were called all sorts of names, like anti American, against the troops, and stuff like that.
    Then it turned to an overwhelming majority supported the war. Despite no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, and that was the basis for the invasion.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Monday is going to be interesting in the context of the federal legislature. It’s kind of a make or break moment. I am fairly sure that part of the reason for the timing of this shit was so that they’d have maximum time over the weekend to fuck around without Congress interfering. I’m honestly mildly surprised the orange regime didn’t wait for a recess.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Seems like a lot. Is that a weird metric?

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Is lead poisoning so prevalent in the US? 25% supports it!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    1 in 4 Americans support this shit because it allows them to live out their own Punisher fantasies vicariously through the US military and State Department.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    That's how it always is early on, then the propaganda machine gets in gear, and Americans turn in favor of the war.
    This time there are Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and obviously Xitter, all controlled by the 1%, and they are already filtering content to support the attack on Iran. That alone is a massive propaganda machine. And most Americans eat it raw with no critical thinking.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Also, Americans will decide whether they supported the war based on how well it goes after the fact. So if Trump bombs the hell out of Iran and kills a lot of Iranians and then whisks his military away before much damage can be done to it, that'll look like a "win" and people love to be on the "winning side."

    Years later as the inevitable long-term fallout continues unfolding, they'll declare that they never wanted to invade Afghanistan Iraq Iran in the first place, of course.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    No doubt the American military is capable of impressive force. And they will more likely than not completely dominate Iran. Israeli intelligence has often also proven very effective, so I don't give Iran many chances against that combo.
    But the problem is whether Israel/USA can actually cause a regime change without boots on the ground? If not, it will have to be considered a failure. No matter how much they destroy Iranian nuclear capability.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    And those 1 in 4 are probably unreachable.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    The "Don't Know / Skipped" is lower than I expected!

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    [–] 41 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    That's an interesting way of stating 75% of Americans disapprove of the Iran strikes.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It's quite strange that a poll I saw a few years ago suggested that 26% of Americans had the mental capacity of a 5 year old.

    24% refused to wear masks.

    25% support these strikes.

    I mean, I'm not saying it's all tied together, buuuuuuut..........yeah. Dum-dums are dumb.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Technically that would be 75% don't approve which is not the same. I'd bet a solid chunk of that 75 has no idea what's going on as long as it doesn't affect them. They'd be categorized as "neither approves nor disapproves". They're the worst.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The "Don't Know / Skipped" is lower than I expected!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    Only slightly lower than to be expected, IMHO. Seems to me one can divide the population into roughly thirds: strongly right, strongly left, and those who shouldn't ever vote because all they care about is themselves, their little world, and what their favorite pop-culture icon says - a.k.a. bobbleheads.

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