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[–] t0m5k1@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago (4 children)

America, you are a seriously screwed up nation.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

These people are in the minority. A very vocal minority, but a minority nonetheless.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A minority that has janky map lines and other voting shenanigans like the electoral college to make them potent beyond their numbers, unfortunately

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Smaller of a minority than that. They're getting played, too.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, most of the crowd at a Trump rally is going to be a caricature of all the negative stereotypes about Republicans and/or Americans. And if we know them personally, we can tell they aren’t right in the head.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Twitter mob: protect the religious minority! And roch minority!

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Do not compare me to these people.

I would have been booing from the start.

[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The people showing up to trump and turning point bullshit are not representative of the majority. But constant coverage of those morons since trump definitely makes it seem that way

[–] kayos@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It feels like a representation based on voting.

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every country has psychos. Ours are just louder and wear red hats.

[–] Princeali311@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We also have roughly half the population of the entirety of Europe in one country. With that many people, you're going to have more dumb dumbs than wherever OP is from.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

EU's 449M + Ukraine's 38M + Belarusian's 9M + 115M in european part of Russia = 661M. There are also two european cities in Kazahstan and entire UK, but we will ignore them for now.

So yeah, roughly half.

With that many people, you're going to have more dumb dumbs than wherever OP is from.

We are talking about concentration, not about absolute numbers.