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[-] jack@hexbear.net 64 points 11 months ago

this is also a reminder that Americans are not demons who love to colonize, but people held in an imperial propaganda bubble, and when that bubble wavers many of them are shocked and appalled at the world the US has created outside its borders

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

should also add that the american media (both social and legacy) are working overtime to make the economy the official reason why people didn't vote so that they can pretend that the genocide didn't factor in.

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Indeed, imagine these results if information was spread naturally based on public interest and not heavily skewed by those with the power to conduct public opinion.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

get outta here w that commie shit .... (so i can have it all to myself) lol

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

Let's keep perspective tho, this poll is not describing the majority of Americans but a minority (29% of active dem voters) of a minority (voting Americans)

And if it was broken down along racial lines we'd see typical divisions

No data backs up the claim Americans oppose the genocide in any real numbers outside of certain demographics

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Let's keep perspective tho, this poll is not describing the majority of Americans but a minority (29% of active dem voters) of a minority (voting Americans)

please read things, it's not 29% of active Dem voters, it's 29% of people who voted Biden but NOT Harris
The difference between Biden and Harris vote count was 0.6%

so you're looking at 29% of some mystery number which is at least 0.6% of the Dem population because honkies don't like putting numbers in things

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

I'll do you one better, I did the math, they're talking about 1,800,000 people who didn't vote Harris because of Gaza

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

So 1% of the voting population (Kamala lost by 3.5%)

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