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Only? Wtf

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For one thing, you can sympathize but not find it acceptable.

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When I was young, I wouldn’t have found it acceptable. It doesn’t matter how badly you’re treated, you need to find a peaceful way to resist. It’s something drilled into my and my peers’ skulls since I can remember.

After seeing little progress (but mostly worsening) with polite requests and peaceful protests, I really can’t figure out how it can be unacceptable.

A lot of those kids probably just haven’t gained that wisdom yet.

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It’s still the majority opinion.

19% don’t care.

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the word you’re looking for is plurality.

Majority means over 50%.

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If 19% don’t care, then it is acceptable to them.

They are not upset it happened, they accept it. They do not explicitly support it tho.

Add the 19% to 41% and get 60% do not have a problem with a broad daylight execution of a healthcare CEO.

So if you want to be pedantic, email the person (or ai) that generated the headline.

But 60% didn’t have a problem with it.

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51% think he should have been set on fire.

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235 points

Shocked its so low

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Shit was rigged, you know they made the question something insane to get more people to not agree with the killing.

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Exactly. The question should have been, “did the CEO deserve to die?” It was likely, “was the killing acceptable?” It’s perfectly possible to believe the bastard had it coming without thinking one person has the right to be judge, jury, and executioner.

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https://lemmy.world/comment/14023778

Apparently it was basically that, was it acceptable ot unacceptable.

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Link to study

Do you think the actions of the killer of the United Healthcare CEO are acceptable or unacceptable?

I’ve seen worse phrasing for survey questions.

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6 points

O damn that’s actually not worded to bad. I expected way worse than that.

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19 points

after the Nov 5th display of oligarch worshipping, maybe not as surprising it isn’t higher

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114 points

People aren’t exactly gonna tell a random stranger and probable Fed that they support murder even if it’s really based

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It’s not illegal to say you believe Brian Robert Thompson deserved to die. Hell, you could, perfectly legally, file paperwork to hold a parade in Luigi’s honor, right through the heart of DC. It’s illegal to make death threats, but it’s perfectly legal to express support for someone being killed.

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With the incoming administration, I don’t want to be on record as saying that.

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Why not? Feds support murder, certainly. Heck, the Constitution supports murder: it establishes an Army.

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When they do it, not us peasants.

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I’m genuinely shocked… Maybe they didn’t want to go on record saying it because they were concerned about backlash.

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Since Thompson was shot, first in the back and then again as he fell to the ground, a number of social media posts from people saying they do not have sympathy for his death have gained popularity.

I bet if that was the question an even higher percent would agreed.

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Ten is a number. So is one, or zero.

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Agreed, but I’m not sure I follow.

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They’re saying “a number” of social media posts are filling in the picture they’d like to paint. It’s a more technically honest version of Trump’s “a lot of people are saying it” type of statement.

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I doubt I’m “young” but I find it acceptable. I’m only shocked it doesn’t happen more. These people making insane amounts of money off the suffering of the working class have been getting away with too much for too long.

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They make money by murdering people. Someone has to hold them to account since our justice system, which is bought and paid for by these same scumbags, surely won’t.

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