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25% of people being propagandised beyond reason is a high number, yes.

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

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.

Polls are the most reliable way to be disappointed in humanity.

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.

Gosh, that'd be convenient; here's hoping 🤞

Didn't he tell them to drink bleach for covid? Unfortunately no one really did.

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?

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.

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.

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.

It's not even former allies. Denmark is a current ally according to treaties that are signed into US law. Sure the US is effectively no longer part of NATO but all of the official reasons for invading Greenland could be accomplished by Trump admitting some agreements made by past Presidents were actually good.

This is all because one deranged old child molester wants to put his name on the map and a whole bunch of people are too gutless to admit that's what's going on.

The Americans pushing that misinterpretation of the constitution are for this and are really only interested in continuing to oppress the majority of Americans.

That sounds difficult. Let's just give one person all the power so there isn't any time wasted on disagreement.

Also, this would be a big burden on a random person so let's just give it to someone who really, really wants the power. Then, they can teach their replacement how to wield that power. That takes decades, so it should probably be someone close to them, like maybe their kid!

I think I just solved democracy!