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[–] blackbearjesus27@lemm.ee 117 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

And yet, about half of voting Americans will actively ignore those impulses and choose a party that openly campaigns on tax reductions while it drums up fears surrounding issues they largely agree with (when presented in a non-partisan context) so does it really matter what they say?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 87 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

45% of voting age Americans didn't even fucking bother to vote

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, a lot of them decided the genocide half way across the world was more important than the genocide they would help to trigger back home.

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks ago

How any didn’t vote, and how many were removed from voter rolls or didn’t have the right ID or were gerrymandered or

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[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 61 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

6% said "the poor have too much"

wat

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Are you not aware that poor people have smartphones these days? Back in my day being poor meant having absolutely nothing. I say we take their phones away and their shoes too for good measure. That way they’ll know what true poverty is like /s

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Are 6% of respondents 12-year-olds that identify as "your dad's a cuck"?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago

Mentally, about 45 % of the voting population are exactly that.

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[–] arin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The ones who organized the republicans

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

72% is way too low given how insane the current wealth distribution is. Fully 1/4 of the population have drunk the kool-aid

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 weeks ago

"I'm going to be rich, soon" they say while they're considering payment plans for a Taco Bell order.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think more than 3% of the population considers themselves rich

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[–] PlagueShip@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

In related news, 28% of Americans are complete and utter fucking morons.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Anytime there's a shitty statistic, it's often always around 25-35%

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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

28% of Americans think they are billionaires that are just suffering a temporary financial setback.

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[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There are more poor than rich. We just have to come together. There is strength in numbers.

[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

No way. Americans are proud they are not communists, meaning they complain but ultimately worship the rich

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Numbers are less relevant when the other side has the most sophisticated surveilance system on the planet coupled with the most deadly military.

Key people inside the system have to defect in order to short-circuit that power.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That's what they want you to believe, that it's too hard to get to them. Luigi got Brian walking down the street. They're just people.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's a key thing to remember here. The assholes of the world are still human at the end of the day, and have the same mortality as the rest of us. The only thing they have on any of us individually is access to resources, but as was said, there's more of us than them, thus why they keep us fighting amongst ourselves.

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

Luigi got Brian walking down the street

Allegedly.

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

friendly reminder, it would take 1,460,714,285 weeks of minimum wage to earn musks net worth. That's 27 million years.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where the fuck were they during the election?

[–] EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dumbfucks believed the orange guy who was sitting in front of the billionaires. Lets not forget that a third of the us isn’t capable of reading above the 6th grade level.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's more about lack of Critical Thinking Skills than anything else.

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

The rich have too much by definition, but billionaires in America have an historically obscene amount of wealth. Wealth inequality in today’s America has surpassed pre-Revolution France.

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It ain't about "having too much". Billionaires shouldn't exist. Ipso facto, their very existence only shows that corruption and greed can influence anything to point that whatever that thing is only serves those corrupted. End it. There should be no Billionaires.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In other words, a billion is too much money for one person to have.

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[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The survey only involved like 950 people and it only defined it as, "the rich" which seems pretty vague. Given the survey also mentions Bezos and Musk it wouldn't surprise me if that is the group having too much on this survey, not humble millionaires like you and me.

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Be nice if they fucking voted that way.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

There was no voting that way, that's the whole damn problem. Neither candidate promised to do anything substantial about wealth inequality.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

No they don't, their voting clearly shows the opposite.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

"Donald Trump stands up for the little guy like you and me" - the mental giants we're dealing with

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Fucking reruns. I’ve seen this one before.

This is the one that ends with rich people’s heads in baskets.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

No, this one ends with these same people continuing to vote for Republicans because they're awful people.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

I guess their solid grasp of racism and bigotry always wins

[–] imTIREDnhungryboss@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

no shit Capt. obvious

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