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Both things can be true, but it's funny that two opposite sounding replies came to this one comment about US politics.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

TranscriptsComment 1: It really bugs me when I see people say that a majority of Americans support this, because they don’t.

His policies are consistently polling negatively.

A minority of Americans even bother to vote, so the results of the election aren’t entirely representative of the opinions and viewpoints of the majority of Americans.

He didn’t even win a majority of votes in the election. He won with 49%, a plurality.

This isn’t “most Americans”. It’s a passionate minority that is ruling over the majority because of a broken system.

Comment 2: IDK why folks seem to think most Americans aren't supportive of him, they are. If they weren't they'd be doing something about it. I'm surrounded by majority Republican voters and they love what trump is doing. They rub it in to me all the time. Let's face it, us Americans are vile selfish people.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The best when i wrote to someone how objectively you have to blame all USA because 2/3 help trump get elected, and 2/3 support genocide of Palestinian people ( both Democrats and republican ) and they told me to “fuck off”

It is sad because they dont even know that they dont live in a democracy and dont know that it is possible to have a system that allow for balanced power distribution.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can see how the genocide comment could rub people the wrong way.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Well again objectively 2/3 of US are okay with it so it is expected to see 1 to 3 ratio of up and down votes when we call the genocide country what they are.

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