• EdibleSource@lemmy.ml
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      I feel like it’s possible the separation question was a distraction so people weren’t talking about the other questions.

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      Alberta: We may be racist hillbillies, but we’re still nowhere near as gullible as magats

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    If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last couple decades, it’s that about 1/4 of people are thoughtless fools, easily caught up in whatever bullshit is shoved in their face the loudest.

    • KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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      that about 1/4 of people are thoughtless fools, easily caught up in whatever bullshit is shoved in their face

      The US confederacy has spent decades ensuring their entire political process heavily favors that very very dumb 1/4 of the people.

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        It’s closer to a third. In the last ten years trumps idiots have had like a +- 33 percent locked in like a bunch of child molesting Mot worshipers.

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      If you’re on socials, bullshit is being shoved in your face. Is your palate so refined that you avoid it entirely? Or, like violence, is the seed of foolishness in all of us?

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    Shocker /s. it’s almost like all polling outside of the provincial number had voters at a consistent 75% to outright disagree with leaving.

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    I don’t know why anyone takes the civil war / secession-obsessed people seriously.

    It’s a small, loud minority that thinks it’s a majority because they mainline algorithmically-content all day, every day. That holds true in Canada and here in the US.

    They’re a bunch of fucking clowns.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      I mean, just look at Brexit.

      You take these things seriously because they can have adverse consequences, and that minority may not be as much of a minority as you might think.

      If you’re in a room and a quarter of the people in that room want to burn the room down, do you not take them seriously because it’s only a quarter of the room?

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      because a small bunch of clowns can sway public opinion their way in the right circumstances.

      the algorithm is most folks reality now, they don’t live outside of it.

    • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      a civil war is a militarized conflict. It requires entire groups of people grabbing guns or explosives or other arms and being willing to kill someone else for being on the wrong side. If no one in canada was arming up and murdering people for being on a different side then of course not.