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As an American, the fact that 25% are for it or indifferent is a shameful number...
We don’t have the right to judge we unleashed this evil pedofile on this planet
75% is an awfully low number.
25% of people being propagandised beyond reason is a high number, yes.
Truthfully at this point I'm satisfied that 15% aren't undecided on the issue
Hitting 75% agreement in US politics is honestly unusual today, so I think it's a good sign that Trump has domestic opposition on this one
Unusual? "Breathing" would struggle to break 60%. 75% is functionally unanimous.
Domestic opposition doesn't mean shit if they don't do anything about it.
People are made vulnerable to their idol going haywire - by the need to rationalize having supported him. Thus the 50% of Republicans who bluescreened with "great leader always correct". If they have time to read up on the issue, it will drop a bit.
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making big assumptions here
You could probably poll 10,000 random Americans and find about 25% that would be in favor of eating lightbulbs and severing diplomatic ties with the magical land of Oz. That bottom 25% of Americans has got some real issues.
Most people : don’t do it
Government leaders: don’t do it
Business: don’t do it
Academics: don’t do it
All other countries and states in the world: don’t do it
Trump: I’m gonna do it.
It's not only trump, that's the sad thing. Trump is just a puppet, controlled by people behind the curtains. Look at this project 2025. There are plenty of powerful people who are pulling the strings of Trump and the next Republican candidate.
Long gone are the days when politicians were actually working for their voters. Now it is all about social media propaganda. And guess what, making education unaffordable works wonders for those people. They don't want rational human beings, they just want easy to control and manipulate sheep.
"And just like that, everything changed. At that terrible moment, in our hearts, we knew. Home was a pen. Humanity, cattle."
More likely: 50% of Republicans are still waiting for instructions what to think.
Yeah! We need to take Greenland because checks notes that’s where fentanyl comes from and without it we will get more brown people!
Seriously brown people are all the argument they need. The racism is insane with the party. Maybe they can say that Greenland is being invaded by tren de aragua and we need to bring ice there to improve our community. It’s the same logic we already have right? As in, devoid of it.
*on what to believe. Thinking is hard.
And the other 25% are straight up Nazis.
It says "...Of Americans", so the optimist in me says "25% of people didn't know about or answer the poll."
Don't atribute malice where stupidity fits. It's quite probable that a sizable chunk of those 25% didn't even understood the question.
70% of Americans approve of higher minimum wage and universal health care, too.
It doesn't matter.
That means there has to be an overlap of millions of Americans who want this but still voted Trump. Does their stupidity know no bounds?
There’s a metric fuckton of Americans who would resurrect Hitler and the entire 3rd Reich before they willingly voted for a woman.. let alone a brown woman.. it’s ridiculous.
Jesus Christ I had some hints that Republicans would be coming to their senses, but fucking 50/50?!? These people are fucking lost, too far gone. They are beyond normal legal or democratic avenues. This is a violent, fascist authoritarian cult, and they need to be stopped.
If they don't change their minds when their country threatens real hostilities against former allies, then they will not be swayed by anything except force, combined with real, uncompromising economic destruction.
Americans will need a general strike and armed protests at this point.
They love authoritarianism, more than they love other people, democracy, anything. There's a certain amount of neural wiring involved, as people lean into it, their amygdala grows larger and their fear of "others" and "chaos" intensifies.
When I saw my mom posting a fundraiser for the Ice murderer's family last week, I realized a cop could beat me to death in front of her, and she'd tend to his bruised knuckles in apology. That was the very last straw, I don't know her anymore.
Yeah David Frum famously wrote “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
He's a former neocon Bush speechwriter and an ardent anti-Trumper. He would know.
Alternative perspective, for what it's worth:
50/50 is actually comparatively huge. Considering everything else has been 90/10.
The first departure from your god-king is always the hardest. I expect for many, this is the first break, and will make any subsequent break mentally easier.
Also keep in mind that people who identify/lean Republican has taken a little more than a 10% haircut since January 2025. Any "republicans say" is an increasingly smaller subset of the total voting population... getting more concentratedly nuts as they boil off the more rational ones. Even with this more concentrated version of Republicans, it's STILL not popular.
Don't get me wrong, it's not GREAT... but there is a trend line. It's not moving as fast as it should, but it IS moving.
25% of Americans would jump off a cliff if Trump told them to.
Gosh, that'd be convenient; here's hoping 🤞
25% of Americans are perfectly fine with the US just taking over independent countries. 75% oppose but only if they don't have to do anything other than answer a poll.
Numbers like these really reinforce that there's no coming back for the US.
Honestly I actually think this is a good sign. There was a point toward the end of 2024 when Trump could have come out and said the moon is made of cheese and polls would say 50% of Americans agree with him. The fact that in less than two years Trump has lost 50% of his base is insane. He's is hemorrhaging support.
If numbers keep moving this way the midterm elections, which happen later this year will be interesting to say the least.
It's worth looking at the framing of this. CNN asked, "Would you (favor) or (oppose) the U.S. attempting to take control of Greenland?" A poll from 4 days early found, when specifically asked about taking over Greenland by force, found it was a ~~86% support, 9% oppose.~~ [86% oppose, 9% support] (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/86-percent-in-new-poll-against-us-taking-greenland-by-force/ar-AA1Udv9k). (I was very tired when I wrote this. Most Americans are very, very tired right now.)
Trump has made several bids to buy Greenland, and I think most of the support in this poll is for that option. I think the majority of Americans really don't believe he'll send the military to Greenland and destroy the NATO alliance. They think this is a negotiating tactic, and they are seriously mistaken.
86% opposed
Thanks for the other poll. :) But in your link, you have confused "oppose" and "support". :)
OMG, yes, thank you, that was a pretty big typo.
Will they oppose it though? Or just sit on their arses and do nothing?
If only ONE of those 75% was Trump.
So I should be leaving a steaming pile of poop on every fourth front porch in the US? This is depressing, I only have so much poop.
So, there we are... there IS that second amendment thing that the people of the US are always proudly citing. My question to this is: Why don't you proud Americans start to... well... doing target practice?
The Americans pushing that misinterpretation of the constitution are for this and are really only interested in continuing to oppress the majority of Americans.
They should do a poll how many wanna never see Trump's ugly face again?
Problem is that in dictatorships it doesn't really matter what the population thinks about government policy.