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  • Quite a stat

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 18 20:05:06 2024
    Quite a stat: "An NBC News poll in April found Biden had a more than
    50-point advantage among newspaper readers but trailed by 26 points
    among voters who said they didn't follow political news."

    https://x.com/monacharen/status/1803176499161255941

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Jun 22 12:39:27 2024
    On 2024-06-19, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    Quite a stat: "An NBC News poll in April found Biden had a more than
    50-point advantage among newspaper readers but trailed by 26 points
    among voters who said they didn't follow political news."

    https://x.com/monacharen/status/1803176499161255941

    I'm reminded that the Founders worried about the general public casting
    votes, as most would be too uneducated to trust with the important
    business of running a democracy. Of course, the other model doesn't
    work either because you wind up with an aristocracy capturing the vote
    and voting for their narrow interests. In this model you get dumbasses
    getting manipulated massively into voting for the interests of the
    elite. Same outcome.

    That George Carlin video posted yesterday is totally relevant to this
    thread.

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  • From Danart@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 23 06:10:52 2024
    JAB wrote:
    Quite a stat: "An NBC News poll in April found Biden had a
    more than
    50-point advantage among newspaper readers but trailed by 26 points
    among voters who said they didn't follow political news."

    https://x.com/monacharen/status/1803176499161255941

    Trump
    allowed COVID to happen. What do you expect?

    You idiots want to elect him again? To save money on gas prices.


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=667888097#667888097

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to adhellman1@gmail.com on Sun Jun 23 08:58:15 2024
    On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:15:30 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:

    Many Millennials, Gen Xs and whatever get their views and news
    from social media platforms

    If that...when they are interrogated, I found them to be clueless.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Sun Jun 23 17:12:53 2024
    On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:39:27 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    I'm reminded that the Founders worried about the general public casting >votes, as most would be too uneducated to trust with the important
    business of running a democracy.

    I believe one relevant issue is Christian leaders who want their flock
    to vote this way, without considering national or worldly consequences
    if their candidate(s) win. It is egocentric thinking...and they and
    select politicians are using an esprit de corps method to persuade
    these folks.

    It's not the general public, but amoral "leaders" using trickery.

    These games played could be explained in school systems....

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