I wouldn’t say polls are meaningless, but the headline and article are still terrible. The article neglects to mention that:

This poll is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 1,027 adults age 18 or older. The sample includes 401 respondents that are currently residents of Arizona.

So about 40% of the respondents live in Arizona which is a major selection bias. I just don’t saw how that can be considered “nationally representative”.

edit:

The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, for results based on the national gen pop sample. The margin of sampling error takes into account the design effect, which was 1.42. For the Arizona gen pop sample, the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 7.1 percentage points, and the design effect is 2.10.

but very close to not being protected, hence the warning.

it’s easier to win elections with shitty candidates if you’re not worried about the opponent winning.

gerrymandering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky's_congressional_districts

sure, but this guy is not even being charged with anything. we are talking about a warning.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/politics/video/abby-phillip-jd-vance-trump-rhetoric-sot-nn-digvid

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1836225969436475513

https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1836245614293573985

“The FBI visited my house today for free speech acts they knew were not crimes.”

Uh, calling for violence is NOT protected under the first amendment, so you can fuck right off with that.

“It is well understood that the right of free speech is not absolute at all times and under all circumstances. There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or ‘fighting’ words – those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.”

you’re completely ignoring that a large portion of our populace are racist rednecks who fanatically support a guy like trump. it’s not just a systemic issue, we are a highly polarized nation and overthrowing the government won’t change that, it’ll only make it worse.

“no reason”? if the alternative to a hand or arm amputation is death, yeah, i’m gonna choose a hand amputation.

that’s what our alternative is in your analogy. remember the US is highly polarized right now, so one (sane) group taking over the US govt is likely impossible, and even if successful would end up in a massive civil war. that would not only destroy life in the US for the foreseeable future, but the entire global economy and geopolitical equilibrium.

blame is irrelevant. what is relevant is choosing who you think will handle it best (or less bad) in the next 4 years. if you think that’s trump, you’re delusional. if you think trump would have handled the last 11 months better, you’re delusional.

lemmy is not the point. clearly the top comment was asking if trump was getting asked these same questions in general, not comments on lemmy.

that’s not true. see the very first charts here and here.

also, Trump didn’t HAVE to send much aid to israel because 2017-2020 just happened to be a relatively peaceful time with israel/palestine, unlike Obama’s and Biden’s terms.

Trump:

• moved the American embassy to Jerusalem
• has never once uttered the words “cease fire”, only called for Israel’s “victory”
• as far as experts are aware, Trump has never expressed any concern over humanitarian aid in Gaza
• reversed US’s position on Israeli settlements in Palestine, which Biden has again reversed to the original position in accordance with international law

while kamala is getting hit on this issue, it’s important for people to keep in mind (or learn if they didn’t know) that Trump has historically been a fanatic supporter of israel and netanyahu. way beyond any other president, D or R.

their point was, let’s hold trump to the same standards as everyone else.

the man demonstrated integrity by not giving in to pressure. if he never cared about corruption he would have just said fuck it and let all the offenders off like his peers asked him to. then yes, after all that he filed suit for retaliation, as he should have.

I wouldn’t even say it’s half finished, it’s just a fundamentally flawed game design. I too am a huge Bethesda fan but their implementation of an open “worlds” space RPG is just awful and there’s nothing that can be done to fix it without making a whole new game.

so what else was he supposed to do?

do you want all the decent cops to quit?

well if we were following the rules this wouldn’t be happening in the first place.