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xijinpingist [none/use name]@hexbear.net to electoralism@hexbear.netEnglish · 14 天前

Americans rate politicians. I want to meet the ones who said Liz Cheney is far left.

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Americans rate politicians. I want to meet the ones who said Liz Cheney is far left.

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xijinpingist [none/use name]@hexbear.net to electoralism@hexbear.netEnglish · 14 天前
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  • MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Critical support to the people who randomly marked Bernie as far right. You’re all honorary Maoists now.

    • Parzivus [any]@hexbear.net
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      2% of Americans apparently

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        And they’re all on Hexbear lol

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I was the guy who said Bernie-Sanders was far-right BTW.

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      waow-based

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    The fact that ‘Not Sure’ is so prevalent on here is really telling

    Explains a lot that a large swathe of the average voter literally does not know the political leanings of some of the most prominent people in politics

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      To be fair, I have more respect for people who are not sure about Kamala Harris than the ones who believe she’s far left.

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Also to be fair, i ate too much five bean chili last night and it has hardened my heart/colon

        • Johnny_Arson [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          Funniest takeaway from this whole graph is that nobody but the most brain poisoned weirdos knows who Susan Collins is lmao.

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            It’s stunning how many people don’t know other state’s senators

            Hell, there are people who don’t know their own senators

            I get that senators and representatives are terrible most of the time, but you should at least know their names so you can insult them properly

            • Johnny_Arson [they/them]@hexbear.net
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              My rep is Jimmy Panetta literally the son of a CIA ghoul, but commiefornia right?

              • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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                I’ve earned the personal ire of several Kennedys

                I cannot elaborate for OpSec reasons

            • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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              there’s 100 senators, i’m not wasting 2/3 of my monkeysphere on those ghouls

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                Valid.

            • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              I don’t bother knowing my state senators because I can’t afford to use one of those stock tracker things that let you copy their insider trading

            • unaware [they/them]@hexbear.net
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              now that I know her name I can do a trumpism and call her Lazy Susan Collins (and forget about her immediately because I’m not a Burgerlander)

          • GladimirLenin [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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            She had that song In the Air Tonight, didn’t she?

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      To be fair, Not Sure could also mean, “idk this asshole claims to be for socialism but thinks Israel is a country.”

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        True, but amongst USAans, that’s probably not a significant amount of people

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          Specifically on Israel and socialism, probably not. But I do think that generally, Americans see political triangulation as shiftiness and uncertainty rather than pragmatic moderation. It’s not a coincidence that the “not sure” responses are most prevalent for politicians typically depicted as centrist.

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        He’s that bastard who defeated President Camacho!

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      “Not sure” is at least somewhat honest, everyone else is mostly just responding by party id. Oh, this person is a Dem - so they are left-wing.

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      Not sure does also accurately describe the political activities of most DNC politi ians anyway so that is actually valid

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    Joe Biden built his entire 50-year career on being a “don’t rock the boat, give your opponent a reach around the aisle” centrist politician. A fact that 92% of usa’ns don’t recognize.

    manhattan

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      It’s like the old saying: if someone tells you who they are (and constantly proves it their entire career with a capstone of doing that same thing) they are LYING TO YOU!! MORE SACRIFICES MUST FLOWWWW! I WILL SACRIFICE 1000 COUNTRIES FOR THE MONEY LINE!!

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    Gotta love that 5-10% that are just contrarian, misguided, uninformed, careless, or picking random numbers.

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      There’s some statistics thing about how, like, 5% of people are just fucking around in every survey and will choose absurd answers for fun. I don’t remember what it was called though. Big foot’s constant? Moon landing principle? Something like that.

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        Lizardman constant.

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        There’s also web crawlers and survey farms that can (in)advertantly influence results.

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      Running out of countries to sacrifice so you gotta make more… wait that was just the British empire… Edit Oops meant to reply to @WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net

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    The 4% saying Trump is far-left offers an estimate of how prevalent blue maga is

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    It’s obvious how uneducated Americans are because this entire chart should just be a solid red block.

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    Would be vastly more interesting to see what… basically any other nationality than American, would say. Can’t imagine a single country population agreeing there’s that much leftism there.

    Calling anyone here ‘far-left’ is utterly derisible.

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      Leftism and leftist can mean pretty much anything in the US. The terms can mean what they are. Or liberals. Or centrists. Or center-right.

      For example - PBS New Hours has a “left-right” debate segment. “On the right” is David Brooks. “On the left” is Jonathan Capehart who is center-right. And PBS never lets actual leftists on its show so a great deal of its viewership has no idea what actual leftism is.

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    44% not sure for Fetterman is also funny.

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    theres some kind of lesson in that the persons described by most as “far left” was repeatedly blocked by the democratic party leadership from reaching executive office despite constant diplomacy and reconciliation… but the person described by most as “far right” has been repeatedly celebrated and exalted by the republican party despite never missing an opportunity to wipe his ass on its membership, and has ascended to a position of total dominance of the party.

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      And that lesson is: America is fascist.

      (To put it more precisely, both parties are captured by corporate donors and oligarchs)

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    The fascinating part to me is how few Americans describe any politician as being “centrist.” Even broadening it to all three of the center options, no politician hits a majority seeing them as in the center spectrum (Fetterman gets closest at 38%). Illustrates that Americans see the “center” more as an abstract concept than an ideological space people actually occupy.

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    Newsom far-left 07

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    They left out Turd Ferguson.

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      That’s a funny name

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    politicians

    Elon Musk

    I notice the question asked doesn’t specify politician, but the title of the graph does and the rest of the people are.

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    another day of my crusade against all polling. Idk about yall but if this questionnaire was put in front of me i’d give the most batshit responses guaranteed

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