• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m sure that’ll be a great relief to the normal people suffering who didn’t take the warnings seriously.

    And I don’t know if I’d call it fear mongering considering the concerns about abortion and the Supreme Court came true. If someone chooses not to take warnings seriously after that, well… They shouldn’t be surprised if this next set of warnings comes true as well.

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      6 months ago

      Tell that to the dems, man! If their scaremongering warnings aren’t winning over voters, maybe they should try popular governance.

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        6 months ago

        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/us-aid-to-israel-support-drops-as-outrage-over-war-gaza-grows?embedded-checkout=true

        51% of likely voters in swing states “strongly or somewhat support aid to Israel”. Considering that is the popular opinion among crucial voters, are you fine with Biden’s position on Israel? It’s just “popular governance” after all.

        Maybe Bernie should’ve also said he was a through and through capitalist to try and win the primary through “popular governance”?

        Very poor argument.

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          6 months ago

          That link is paywalled, so unless you share the text i guess ill take your word for it.

          Regardless, that’s only “popular” if you limit your definition of popular to swing states. Nationally, only 46% of voters(note this is more accurate when limited to registered voters) support more aid to israel (Quinnepaic, April 24), even fewer when limited to democratic and independent voters.

          Quinnipiac poll, support for aid to israel by demographic:

          64% over 65 years old 60% Republicans 50% White 46% all voters 46% independents 42% Hispanic 36% Democrats 31% Black 26% under 35 years old

          The Bernie point is actually interesting, because historically “capitalism” is broadly popular, but his socialist policies are extremely popular, which I suppose would suggest polling is kinda junk as a predictor for popularity anyway.