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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That number is a lot lower when you factor in the people that are too apathetic / disillusioned to vote or be polled with registered voters.

Trump’s base is about 35% and his approval ratings are around 40%.

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And those numbers are still just so unimaginably high

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends where you live and what social media you’re being guided too. The right wing media bubble is quite massive in today’s America.

Also, Lemmy is very much not representative of the surrounding world. If that were true, everyone would be running Linux and would have a home NAS.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The rightwing media bubble is honestly wild. I went to a red area recently and every radio station had weird shit on it and blatant lies and propaganda. The newspapers, the conversations, everything, they kind of live in a totally different world.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

its also co-opted from russia, flood the news with crap, or firehose of falsehood. this how they keep people on thier toes from concentrating one thing. thats what trump is doing to distract from the epstein files and the fallout of the cuts, and the BBB.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Gish gallop, they do so much we can't keep track.

Wild to remember seeing in 2016 the funny obvious Russian propaganda and laughing at it, and now it's here and just as stupid, but people are deepthroating it like crazy. Shouldn't have laughed at Russia, what arrogance I had

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

like the nobel prize news, is such an obvious distraction,

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some, yes. Others who are super disenfranchised, I kind of get it.

I ran into some pretty fucked up stories when I worked in Alabama for several years. Outside of Birmingham I’d hear stories from black voters about limited polling places, that were super far away, were hard to hit up during work hours, and had good ‘ol boys intimidating anyone that wasn’t white.

And if folks did tough it out, they were gerrymandering to high hell, so the vote was designed to go nowhere.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago

aside from the voting machine riggings plus the voter suppression.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

the worst are the totally ignorant like the ones who dint know biden wasnt running anymore, or how they dint bothered because they forgot.