• KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    that about 1/4 of people are thoughtless fools, easily caught up in whatever bullshit is shoved in their face

    The US confederacy has spent decades ensuring their entire political process heavily favors that very very dumb 1/4 of the people.

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      It’s closer to a third. In the last ten years trumps idiots have had like a +- 33 percent locked in like a bunch of child molesting Mot worshipers.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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        20 hours ago

        It’s not a coincidence that that percentage matches unusually well with the number of Americans who can’t read past a sixth grade level…