Are the two thirds ready to do something about it? Or are the waiting until Trump cancels the midterms first?
One third wants more death.
They’re executing white American citizens 1300 miles from the southern border.
This isn’t about immigration.
It’s about intimidation in order to illicit a response so they can assume total control. Because they are fascists.
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1/3 of the country is regular sensible people
1/3 of the country is literal fascists who worship Hitler second to Trump
1/3 of the country is too stupid to know the difference
1/3 of the country don’t really pay attention to anything if it doesn’t affect them directly.
The biggest drama in my family is how my uncle failed to pay child support and now has to go to court. They only recently learned about ICE like a week ago, even though they’ve been in the news in my city for the past year.
At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago.
I won’t be surprised if the Superbowl will be the first time a large percentage of Americans even learn about ICE.
A lot of people don’t know about ICE because of personal distractions, but also the hyper-personalisation of mass media cooped all of us into our own bubble, which gives us information blindspot. We don’t really watch TV anymore, so we no longer share the same sources of information. Most people these days use social media for news, but the algorithm of social media curates our desires, which then forces us into a tunnel vision. Hence, we each live in different sets of reality, seeing only what the social media shows us.
But on the one hand, and I don’t know what to make of it, people genuinely switch off from the news because it makes them depress. I understand where they are coming from, but being completely cut off from news is just silly. A friend of mine did not even know about Trump threatening to take over Greenland.
The American education system failed us by design
At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago. I don’t think she’s stupid. She has like 5 kids and was attending night school for more job experience.
Yep, so much of people yelling about “stupid” voters is victim blaming people experiencing poverty and the US’s lack of social safety nets
The thing that bothers me is that in 2024, polling found a majority of Americans favored Trump on immigration and trusted him more than Harris to do a good job on the issue.
When I guessed what Trump was going to do about immigration, it looked a whole lot like what he’s actually doing. It wasn’t especially hard to guess because he said what he intended to do. While that’s not a guarantee with a habitual liar, he did have a record of attempting to keep campaign promises.
What the hell were people who trusted him on immigration in 2024 and don’t like what he’s doing in 2026 expecting?
In 2002-03, I told anyone who would listen that the Iraq war was a stupid idea, and that went so well (/s) that GWB actually won the 2004 election (unlike 2000)
By the end of 2006, almost everyone said they opposed the war and had always opposed the war, that they were outraged by Abu Ghraib and soldiers being killed by IEDs and etc.
In my experience, Americans aren’t bloodthirsty monsters, but they have crappy imaginations and memories, so they have to actually see an obviously terrible idea get played out and be completely terrible before they will recognize that it is terrible, and then they’ll tell you they knew it was terrible all along. I don’t think we’re much different than people anywhere else in the world in those regards, though.
There’s that third again.
~1/3 voted for Harris ~1/3 votes for Dump ~1/3 didnt vote.
I.e., the republicunts are okay with what ICE is doing.
This graphic is a perfect TL;DR.
Oh my God we’re so fucked
Nah, the GOP is a fucked death cult circling the drain and hemorrhaging supporters. Americans on average are about as cool as they have been in a while. It sucks that it takes seeing the ICEstapo horror show play out in front of them for months is what it took, but they’re more pro-immigrarion now than they have been in years. Say what you will about the absolute numbers, the trajectory of public opinion overall is good.
So why resist them if they are doomed to fail?
Are you watching different news than me? This “fucked” cult just coordinated over years to successfully capture the government, and started doing ethnic cleansing in short order.
Claiming that the fascists are doomed to fail seems naive at this point in the fascist descent.
Why resist if we are doomed to fail? Things are bad but this is a winnable fight with the people on our side and they’re coming our way more and more with every stupid atrocity this dipshit government commits.
Dem adds up to 101%
Overall adds up to 99%.
That happens when rounding.
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and 89% of the GOP views trump favorably. We are so horribly broken , I’ve given up trying to make sense of this. Are there really this many bad people in this country, they can’t all be gullible cult members?
It’s not gullibility; the reactionary right want to oppress the people they hate. It’s White Christian Supremacy.
It’s similar to the KKK: they weren’t tricked into being hateful pieces of shit, they just are. Sure, a but big part of that is that their culture is rotten with fundamentalism and anti-intelectualism, but those are cultivated and flourish because they’re helpful to the cause of being hateful pieces of shit.
I’d say it isn’t just similar to the KKK, it is the KKK. The Dems effectively kicked those losers out of their party by the early 1960s, but then oligarch Republicans who had been losing elections since the 1930s because the Great Depression so thoroughly discredited their laissez faire invited them in by running Barry “I think civil rights is a states rights issue” Goldwater for president, and that anti-social and destructive political coalition has been fucking shit up for everyone ever since.
Think of it less as bad people, than individuals drawn into self-reinforcing belief systems through algorithmically amplified echo chambers. Modern technology—primarily smartphones and platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but also cable news (Fox/NewsNation) and podcasts—systematically exploits cognitive biases such as confirmation bias and correlation neglect to isolate users from dissenting viewpoints. This creates environments where belief and exclusivity override rational discourse, mirroring historical patterns where economic distress fueled extremism.
Just as post-WWI Germany’s hyperinflation and reparations under the Treaty of Versailles bred widespread anger and desperation—enabling extremist movements like the Nazis to gain traction by scapegoating minorities—today’s algorithmic ecosystems channel similar frustrations into polarized identity politics. Users aren’t merely “gullible”; they’re trapped in feedback loops where platforms prioritize engagement over truth, reinforcing preexisting narratives while filtering out complexity. This isn’t unique to the U.S.: Brazil’s Bolsonaro movement, France’s National Rally, and Italy’s Brothers of Italy all leverage these dynamics to mobilize bases through emotional appeals to victimhood and exclusion.
The core issue isn’t malice but structural amplification. Social media’s profit-driven algorithms curate content that deepens ideological divides, making users perceive opposing views as existential threats. Fixing this requires confronting how technology reshapes human cognition—not blaming individuals for succumbing to systems designed to exploit their biases. As one study notes, these echo chambers don’t just reflect polarization; they manufacture it through recursive reinforcement of extreme content.
I think this is all just serving to amplify problems America already has had since the Civil War and reconstruction, and I really don’t think those problems are distributed evenly across the political spectrum, it really is a right wing problem,
But the basic dynamic you’re outlining definitely is real and definitely serves to make that underlying problem worse
The thread below is an interesting example of how anger can override rational discourse.
I think calling out specific comments is unnecessary and a bit counterproductive
So a third of the people I meet don’t have a problem with it?
And I’m supposed to care about this society?
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Jumping in. You’ve had a conversation with Vintage, but I just want to add that boundaries are okay. Compassion fatigue is understandable. Giving a damn about a world that feels like it’s hurting you is hard and overwhelming. I sympathize.
I hope you hear that not everyone you meet or who engage with reflects you. Some of us care about you because you are human. It is okay not to care in the same way.
It is also okay to dissent, and be against the crowd. It is good for us to listen and engage with things that we don’t like, we need the challenge. So I thank you for that as well. I might not agree, but I appreciate the discourse and helping keep us grounded.
Well said
Yes.
Sorry my give a damn is broken
So I guess you know what third you are in.
What about the other two thirds? What about the actual children who couldn’t answer this survey?
I’m sure they’re all terrible in their own unique way.
Even the children?
Don’t get me started on children
No I really want to hear your take. This is gonna be fun 🍿
Well, those people sure don’t, so I guess its up to you to decide what third you want to be in.
You can find 1/ 3 of people to agree with almost anything. Half of adults read At OR BELOW the 6th grade level. That’s a whole lot of stupid and misinformed people
You know that makes it worse, right?
