220 points

Only HALF?? God this country is dumb.

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Yeah no shit, it’s like saying half of Americans lean auth-right. A circular Venn diagram if ever I’ve seen one.

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I went into a shop in MAGA country recently and shop owner broke away from his MAGA conversation to ask us if we’d heard about all the social security grift Elon had just found - apparently they paid over 50 billion dollars to people who’d been dead for 100 years - and did we think they should just refund that to us, or use it to pay off the national debt. He was legit excited.

The misinformation and propaganda and whatnot is off the charts.

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And by MAGA country I mean there was a shop just up the road called “Trump, flags, and more” or some shit.

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2 points

This is just insane to me, and i just refuse to believe that is real.

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And the approve rating is our stereotypical 35ish percent.

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More than half of the country didn’t take the survey 😐

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55 points

Right along party lines, I imagine. In other words, the only people with a positive view of Musk are the ones who reliably think what right wing propaganda tells them to think.

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Actually, it’s the billionaires and temporarily-embarrasses billionaires, against the rest of us.

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52 points

The other half are ok with nazi salutes in the US Capitol.

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I think a good percentage of those are either woefully uninformed or think people were making it up.

But that’d be only very very mildly better.

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3 points

At this point there’s no difference between supporting it and being oblivious to it. This past election demonstrated that.

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Half of the us are Nazis? Fuck. Me. No seriously, fuck me, I’m in need of a big strong man to take my mind off how half of Americans are Nazis.

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The math is a bit more complicated. We know 30% of U.S. adults are Nazis. We know 28% appear not to be.

The other 42% of Adults in the U.S. are still in question.

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The other 42 are down with whatever. It’ll be fine. There’s always drama. Nothing won’t really change. Anyway, I’m going to a conference in x city and then hit the slopes…

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Wow only half? We are fucked.

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Its lies. Very few people like arrogant billionares who think they can own countries and everyone else is below them and we’re leeches to be “deleted”. Someone who gets off on ruining lives. Not to mention he’s bat shit crazy and has a farm for his offspring. These billionares are the real threat. Trump is just a useful idiot to make things so bad the billionaires swoop in.

Musk is the billionaire Trump. Not that smart.

The smart ones are more dangerous and quiet like Peter thiel. The guy you never heard of that has in hands in everything bad with a fake stutter and compassionate tone. As they build fortresses in New Zealand. Almost like they know there will be a reason to hide.

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More than half the voting population gave Trump a carte blanche when it was super Obvious who he was. Do you really think they’ve changed?

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Actually no, he got neither half the voting population nor half the people that actually voted.

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