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Thank gods for small things: Sedition is Unpopular

Journal by DeathMonkey

That's quite the approval cliff Trump walked off trying to overthrow the election.

Thankfully, the brainwashing is not entirely complete and a lot of people are seeing it for what it was.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 15 2021, @10:16PM (5 children)

    by khallow (3766) on Friday January 15 2021, @10:16PM (#1100866) Journal

    Stepping back a few decades and trying to look at this with some perspective, why is his approval rating so high? What is wrong with such a large swathe of the public?

    Dissatisfaction with the status quo.

  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2021, @10:28PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2021, @10:28PM (#1100873)

    Says the guy who defends the status quo at every turn and calls every solution that would help the average American a socialist plot that will destroy the very fabric of society.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 16 2021, @05:08AM (2 children)

      by khallow (3766) on Saturday January 16 2021, @05:08AM (#1101049) Journal

      Says the guy who defends the status quo at every turn

      You say that like it were a bad thing.

      and calls every solution that would help the average American a socialist plot that will destroy the very fabric of society.

      I don't recall calling anything a socialist plot. But I'll note here that "every solution that would help the average American" usually fails hard at helping the average anyone it gets applied to, American or not. My suspicion is that if we actually paid attention to whether these schemes, socialist or not, actually worked, we'd just drop most of them and never speak of them again.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2021, @10:37AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2021, @10:37AM (#1101119)

        So you disagree with the folks dissatisfied with the status quo?

        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 16 2021, @12:48PM

          by khallow (3766) on Saturday January 16 2021, @12:48PM (#1101134) Journal

          So you disagree with the folks dissatisfied with the status quo?

          "The" folks? Which "status quo"? You're caught here in a prison of your own rhetoric. There's no room here to complain about people who aren't "the folks" or complain about status quos that aren't the "status quo" you happen to be thinking of.

          There's a lot of dumb people out in the world who think one can change the world by some superficial or harmful gesture like storming a ceremony or burning down a neighbor's business. I disagree with doing stupid shit that doesn't help or even hurts. Perhaps you should too.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2021, @10:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2021, @10:31PM (#1100876)

    Gullible idiots like khallow did not help things!