Iraq dominated the headlines throughout the fall of 2002 and into the winter of 2003. Public opinion on the wisdom of war, however, stabilized relatively early and slightly in favor of war. Gallup found that from August 2002 through early March 2003 the share of Americans favoring war hovered in a relatively narrow range between a low of 52 percent and a high of 59 percent. By contrast, the share of the public opposed to war fluctuated between 35 percent and 43 percent.
Looks like Americans are even more happy with murdering people if its done by a puppet.
Americans don’t believe in anything, half of them can barely read, if you asked them whether Israel was justified in butchering 800 children the poll would most likely flip with 70% saying no, if you asked whether Israel has a “right to self-defense” without any qualification, probably 90% would say yes
If you asked them if Israel has the right to genocide the Palestinians, 50% would say “not sure” and 50% would say no, but 40% would vote yes if it was a closed ballot referendum item
Americans are incoherent lotus eaters who think the height of political intellectualism is enlightened centrism with “remote drone bombing” characteristics
“Were IDF soldiers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold justified in entering a Hamas school? 85% says yes”
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I don’t think there is any “western” country where the people have any control over foreign policy. Japan elected a leader in 2012 that was going to prevent a US military base. Resigned a week before he was going to do it. Similar story in Australia. France elected a leader ~40 years ago I think who was going to dismantle french control in africa. Got elected and realized he had no power to do so, or at least said as much. The recent wars in the middle east were less popular in Europe, afaik, and yet they all stayed involved for exactly as long as the USA.
I think foreign policy, domestic policy, and economic system together are the state. Everything else is just window-dressing. Thats why we have no democratic control over it. The authority of the state is non-negotiable.
If you asked them whether “Israel” has a right to bomb the Palatinate to defend themselves against hummus they would answer yes.
60% of those people don’t even know what Palestine is
where that train derailed, right?
Lmao oh yeah
if they can remember that far back in time
That’s the Palestine west of the bank right?
west bank is when your largest ally is america
No that’s palace teen
That’s the emperor from Star Wars
Country built on genocide supports genocide
Poll: 70% of bed bugs are currently thirsty for blood
This is what I’m talking about. Finally, someone understands on this website.
70% of bedbugs currently in France
usians are the most propagandized people on earth
While arguing with a co-worker about how what Israel is doing to oppress the Palestinians and how they have been pushed to this point, he asked me if I thought the Holocaust actually happened. It is beyond their comprehension that anyone would have any other opinion and it’s easier to just assume I’m some weird conspiracy theorist.
what percentage of Americans could tell you what the Nakba was? 5%?
Could 5% of Americans find Palestine on a map?
Sure we can, we just point to where it says “Isreal.”
5% would be incredibly impressive considering what I know about Americans
I think a solid third of Americans would think it’s a racial slur.
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i agree with this take. i know a lot of otherwise successful and clever people who see corporate media coverage of live ongoing events and tacitly accept the initial framing. not everyone looks at the messaging of our institutions in a default state of hypervigilance. i understand it. people want to trust institutions. it is exhausting to internalize how absolutely decayed and full of shit the US’ are. if you type a few words into the big corporate search engine the top hits are all to the giant media outlets, and they are lock step on program. or, worse, just turn on the noisy live broadcast box, the people in nice clothes / speaking in even tones are saying the things and showing the pictures that support the easily digestible narrative that is repeated at the top, middle and bottom of every hour.
web 2.0 has degraded and complicated this formerly clear and simple landscape, but most people still find the big outlets for ongoing stories. because there is no clear answer to the question, “where do you get your news, who do you trust?” when relatives ask me what i read to cultivate my critical perspective. people who don’t have time to figure out what is going on see the videos, hear the calm analysis, and internalize its logic.
also, jesus… the way the question and responses were framed was trying to create the biggest possible number for “support”. this whole thing is juked six ways from sunday. which comes across as desperate.
majority of americans support whatever they are told to support by the president and mass media
Hey, that describes the lib I know perfectly
Propagandists trotting out the fact that their propaganda worked, while fudging the results to make their propaganda look even more effective as a way to further their propaganda campaign.
The poll also shows that it’s only 27% in ages 18-34. Every age range is less and less propagandized on Israel. So that’s nice.
Boomers definitely have some type of brain poison on the Israel issue, they collectively all just are evil on this issue
Lead poisoning is the blight of the age and it isn’t taken seriously enough
well the bad news is the covid affects the brain and will do as much if not more damage than lead brain as we let it rampage through
Boomers definitely have some type of brain poison on [all issues]
they are so plugged in it’s fucking insane. even with the internet wildly accessible they still corral at the propaganda faucets and suck it straight down
And most things.
It’s all the lead that was in the air.
We get to see what happens as a population continues to become more aware while their government continues to repeatedly do the wrong thing anyway.
27% is fucking insanely low. Americans are the most propagandized people on earth, Jesus fuck.
That’s 27% of young people supporting Israel’s response to the attacks. I’m actually shocked it’s not higher.
Cool guess I hate 70% of Americans now
Always should have.
70% of americans
Gotta get those numbers up up up
I wonder if the news portraying palestinians as a turbo-raping, baby-beheading, anti-semetic zombie horde has anything to do with public opinion?
News be like: Surely they won’t buy the ‘enemy of the week #143 are also rapists’ bit again are they?
Americans: YOU BETTER KEEP THAT SLOP COMING!
That is a very open ended question so it shouldn’t be that surprising that the results are like this. What part of the response are we talking about? Are we talking about whether it is justified for Israel to respond at all? Are we talking about whether the severity of their response is warranted? Who the fuck knows! Probably a lot more of the people who interpret it as the first would agree with the poll.
The propaganda is how this will be presented as 70% of Americans being pro-Israel, which this poll does not demonstrate.
I hate these public opinion polls that: 1. Demonstrate how effective the prior waves of propaganda was were for informing the general public’s opinion, and 2. Are themselves wielded by propagandists who show them off like “This is the popular/common opinion, so it must be [good], [correct],[normal], [popular], etc.”
Thinking Israel is justified to respond at all is pro-Israel given the history of the nation
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Somehow the dozens of UN doctors and international journalists that Israel had killed manage to disappear into the void of history.
i mean the Israeli military response is “kill and destroy everything”.
every american is a legitemate target , good to know…
