badbytes ,

Stop using Theory incorrectly.

Daft_ish ,

1 in 5 people suck

GladiusB , (edited )
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TIL at least 1 in 5 people ate paint chips as a child

iconherder ,
FlyingSquid ,
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In 2020 39% of people believed the "deep state" was working against Trump.

So I guess this is good news sort of?

cosmicrookie ,
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What is the conspiracy exactly? The link has a pay wall for me.

BigBenis ,

They thought she was going to endorse Biden at the end of the Super Bowl and that the White House had rigged the game for the Chiefs to win in order to maximize the spectacle and coverage.

cosmicrookie ,
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I mean... She endorsed him last time around so I don't know why it should be a secret for anyone really. But even then, I can't see why anyone would change their vote, duento a singer or idol

Crikeste ,

She is a self proclaimed democrat. For her to announce support for Biden is like announcing that tomorrow is Friday. We already fucking know, dude.

nova_ad_vitum ,

Keeping those details vague is intentional. The purveyors of such conspiracy theories know that the worst thing they can ever do is make a clear falsifiable statement.

Psythik ,

The flaw in your reasoning is that you're using Google. Stupid people don't research things, so of course you're not going to find anything.

SpaceCowboy ,
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Something to do with rigging football games to make Taylor swift popular (because she wasn't popular already, I guess?) so she could endorse Biden so he can get re-elected.

But I'm kinda more interested in the one where she's a vampire.

Ekybio ,
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Im reading this as:
Nearly 1 in 5 people will reliably vote for Trump

Good: Trump only has 1/5 of people fooled and there is hope

Bad: 1/5 peoples live would be improved by lobotomy

joel_feila ,
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Also bad you only 1 in 8 to win the presidency

UnderpantsWeevil , (edited )
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Im reading this as: Nearly 1 in 5 people will reliably vote for Trump

You're discounting the number of RFK Jr voters and Sovereign Citizen "Voting is just a trick to get you to create joinder" folks in this mix. Also, the guaranteed number of chucklefuck respondents who reply "Yes, and that's good actually".

Good: Trump only has 1/5 of people fooled and there is hope

Plenty of Trump support has nothing to do with QAnon-tier witch hunts. I've got Trump neighbors who are entirely in it because they think he'll be good for the Houston O&G economy. Its the "Climate Change is a hoax and only Trump will protect our jobs" folks plus the "Illegal Immigrants are going to rape my daughter and hot box my son with the dankest Chinese fentanyl" folks who are the backbone of the campaign.

The "Taylor Swift is a 12-Dimensional Psychic Parasite Channeling the Spirit Ghost of Joseph Stalin" crowd are merely the most exotic and lurid supporters.

violetraven ,
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Was Texas always this bad?

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

YMMV. There's definitely parts of the state that haven't been driving insane by drive-time talk radio and Baptist ministers screaming for the blood of migrant day laborers. But we're also talking about a place that churned out D. C. Stephenson, Bruce Alger, and Rick Perry. The ratfuckery runs deep and isn't particularly new.

I'll just say that Texas is a land of contrasts.

DigitalTraveler42 ,

RFK Jr is pulling more Trump voters than Biden voters, since that audience doesn't s generally being targeted by him, but he does have some celebrity pull and Sergey Brin's/Elon Musk's ex-wife/ex-girlfriend.

Fedizen ,

Even 1/3 of the ususal 30% dumbass population doesn't believe this

thisbenzingring ,

Fun times... Learning 1 in 5 of your fellow citizens has shit for brains.

nutsack ,

it was 1 in 3 the last time i looked at a fox news poll

gloss ,

Eighteen percent believe there is “a covert government effort” for the pop icon to help President Biden win re-election, according to a Monmouth University survey.

Why would they need a covert operation? It's already well known she's favors the Democrats and hates Trump. Why the need for a conspiracy layer to it? I'm sure the Biden team would be thrilled if she endorsed him, but that's not "a covert government effort". It's so stupid.

AllonzeeLV ,

Anything to make it sound nefarious, because to Republican voters, everyone is as dishonest, tribal, and ammoral as they are.

This is all Fox "News" and other conservative outlets do all day every day, take the news and add sinister innuendo to it. If Biden were doing a state visit to the UK, Fox would almost certainly say "Biden flees overseas to avoid American's scrutiny of his administration's failures" or the like. If he had that state visit planned but canceled it due to some urgent matter, the headline would be "Biden cancels state visit. Health concerns? What's he hiding?"

Republicans basically spin any positive or neutral information about their many enemies, everyone outside their in-group, as an attack on them. Republicans have no empathy, so of course the sun moon and stars all revolve around them in their view.

GladiusB ,
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They think they are the real ones and that any opposition is hate. Rather than, ya know, feeling sorry for them.

SpaceCowboy ,
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Yeah but the needed to covertly rig football games to make Taylor Swift popular. Because nobody heard of Taylor Swift before a few months ago, right?

kromem ,

There's some people who are highly suggestible. Like to the point it's arguably a disability.

There was an interview with Trump supporters that captured one that other day that's worth a look to understand what's going on:

https://youtu.be/Ud3btbISggA?t=06m08s

You can watch as the person interviewing him about falling for scams over and over jokingly tells him to walk off in a given direction - and then the dude just starts to, until he realizes his car is in the other direction.

acetanilide ,

I think that's kind of misleading.

It looks to me more like he is just looking in that direction (even if he does take a step or two). He was more asking/saying, well why should I go that way when my car is this way. Not, oh shit, my car is actually this way.

kromem ,

If you watch the entire interview with him, I don't think it's at all misleading to portray him as highly suggestible.

The dude falls over himself agreeing with whichever way the wind blows in an interview about how he keeps being taken advantage of by scams.

In that broader context, him shuffling off several steps in the direction some guy jokingly told him to head off in really shouldn't be discounted with a parenthetical.

Breezy ,

If i had been asked, i would also agree it was a conspiracy. I dont believe it, but its a funny thought.

TSG_Asmodeus ,
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I'm Canadian, and every time I hear a stat like this I think of the following quote:

"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." -Pierre Trudeau to Richard Nixon

EtherWhack ,
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Well, of course it's real. The 49ers are from one of the most liberal areas in the US. So, yeah they were fine with taking a loss if it means Biden's pawn can help his agenda. /s

xc2215x ,

Keep in mind we are talking about the most extreme Americans here.

some_guy ,

This just in: one in five americans are stupid.

pearsaltchocolatebar ,

20% is definitely a lowball estimate.

Fedizen ,

I usually hear "30% of americans will believe anything" so the quality of the conspiracy must be quite low

EnderMB ,

We all lived through COVID, so we should already know this.

trafficnab ,

Death cults are one of the few problems that tend to solve themselves

DragonTypeWyvern ,

You can already see an improvement in the numbers!

iquanyin ,
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yes but not only for those who are part of them. and there's no timeline either.

No_Eponym ,
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lived

COVID is only past-tense if it's killed you, like the 1-2000 Americans killed by COVID weekly.

itsonlygeorge ,

It’s much higher than that. This is the side effect of giving idiots access to social media as a platform to spread their stupidity.

iquanyin ,
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case in point...numbers: they can be hard

ryannathans ,

If you think about it, 50% of people are dumber than average

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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That's a sizable under-count.

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