• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    351·
    2 days ago

    I never get polled. I have been around for a long time and I participate in civic life. but I never get polled. I think the closest I ever came was probably 20 years ago I was speed walking through a dying mall to try and snag something for a gift, and one of those professional survey people tried to solicit me to take some surveys and I said no thank you without slowing down.

    apparently the mall slowly dying made the mall owners want to lease out space and give those commercial survey companies permission to make being in the mall even more unpleasant.

    anyway, I don’t know where they find these people… the people dumb enough to fork over their information for unsolicited advertising and mailers. I’m guessing the whitest suburbs of the largest cities aka the most grotesque parts of Burgerland, where they are already selecting from a pool of the most unsavvy, bumblers.

    like that other headline, where like 15% of Democrats they surveyed in the last days said they wanted Musk to have “A Lot” of power over the government. who are these people? I know bozos exist but it’s like the system selects for them as representative.

    its like that lady at the Iowa caucus who was a big Pete Buttigieg fan that was also homophobic and had no clue he was gay. that cannot be a real demographic.

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        171·
        2 days ago

        I am saying the samples aren’t random. I am saying the surveys are not even half-decent.

        I am saying the system is compromised purposely to serve cultural hegemony.

        Citations Needed routinely talks about the phenomenon of using shitty polling to get a desired result for the purpose of convincing leftists that our ideas and values are uncommon and unpopular while giving cover to politicians and fascists to warehouse minorities in prisons and do imperialism.

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          2 days ago

          I always put it like this.

          In my daily life, 90% of the time when I talk with people they, in general, agree with my politics. And this includes supposedly controversial opinions like Luigi did nothing inherently wrong. The other 10% are split into two categories, 8% of it are other leftists who disagree on multiple aspects of my particular interpretation of leftism and the other 2% are hard-core conservatives who often still agree with my diagnostics, but not my cure. Now, maybe you could argue that I am in a cloistered environment, but the district I’ve lived in has been a purple swing district for the last 4 election cycles. If anything, other places are more viewpoint cloistered.

          However, if you were to consult pollsters, you would find that my ideas are wildly unpopular and supposedly ‘extreme and radical’. Now, they would argue this is revealed preference, but I argue that most people don’t like discussing the actual particulars of their beliefs over the phone to strangers. Not only that, but surveys are pretty crap at revealing what people actually believe in.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      151·
      2 days ago

      Yeah tbh I think this says more about polling demographics than it does about Americans opinions on things.

      “53% of people who live in the suburbs and answer unknown calls to their landline in the middle of a weekday say gas the migrants” cool did you try asking anyone else?

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    2 days ago

    just one giant lynch mob.

    always has been
    always will be, until [̷̧̯̘̘͍̹̽̑́̕̚͜R̵̨̛̿̃͐͛̄̓͗̓̀͌͆̉̈͠͝E̷̢̨̢͍̫̮͎̍͋̔̉̉̆̄͋̊̃͐̌̓̔̒̕͠Ḑ̷̢͓̰̰̠͖̮̖̩̼̪̻͔͌̀́̓̃̋͝͝A̶̪̾C̸̨͕̘̣̼͙̦̪̠͕͔͈̙͕̯̰͍̅̋̏̅̈́̈́̎̕Ţ̸̙͓̙̼͓̯̩̹͕͎̮̋̋̄̓̋̔̋͑͋̅͒̀̄̔Ȩ̸̖̭̟͕̗̳̗̠͔̭̤̿̔͑̍̌̔̓̒̉̽͛̋́̓̋͘̕͜D̸̨̢̡̧̟̙̖̫͔̺͍͓̟͍̮̒́̀̀͋[̵̝̞̳͚̘̀̏̓̒̎͑̄̽̏̇̕̕͜͝

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      25·
      2 days ago

      I think the overwhelming majority of white Americans support concentration camps, so long as you call them “detention centers” or “detention camps” or “maximum security prisons.” You’ll see them bend over backwards defending Guantanamo Bay, border camps, and Abu Ghraib.

  • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    How come states other than texas don’t have clauses to secede? I mean fuckit, California joining Canada could pave the way for more states doing the same

    • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Texas does not actually have a clause to secede, and the Supreme Court settled the case in Texas v. White (1869) that Texas, or other states, do not have the right to secede (and that furthermore, despite the withdrawals of their Congress members, the states never seceded in the first place).

      The actual clause that Texas has in its annexation resolution is this clause granting Texas the ability to create up to four more states out of its land:

      Third. New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution.

      This is a mainly historical movement called Texas divisionism and there aren’t any serious advocates of splitting Texas into any other states today as far as I know.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    There are many interesting species of predator and prey sheltered within the broad grassy spaces and massed granite tarns of the Outback. One of these is the Outback Slug. It can leap nearly a quarter mile straight into the air. But it has never mastered the ability… to land. It has no predators; it is just… stupid.

    https://youtu.be/JZqwDSpeS3w