• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Four in five Canadians strongly oppose the idea of joining their neighbours to the south, and a majority, 78 per cent, are concerned with the rhetoric Trump keeps pushing.

    So 20% of Canadians are traitors and/or idiots. Probably the FUCK TRUDEAU flags and bumper stickers crowd who complain about their first amendment rights.

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      7 months ago

      There’s a baseline 20-30% of all polls taken over the world that is made up of hateful nutjobs and conspiracy theorists

      There could be someone running for office who has figured out how to solve all the world’s problems for free, and that 20-30% will vehemently oppose them.

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          7 months ago

          This is the premise that makes Iain M Banks’ Culture series of novels so compelling.

          Even though it is a massive interstellar Type2 society that is “fully automated luxury communism” many people are going to be problematic, angsty, and childish. The result is an always interesting plot.

          A more thorough exploration of someone living in a relative utopia but being a long streak of misery by nature is Delaney’s novel Triton. Main character is a jerk and you get to explore why, while extremely cool things are happening all around.

      • Ethalis@jlai.lu
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        7 months ago

        “Why should we solve the world’s problems for free? The rest of the world should pay us!”

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    7 months ago

    Can we stop posting this headline? Again and again and again?

    It’s not news.

    If a sizable portion of the population did want to do something stupid, that’d be news.

    This is… It’s not even propaganda. It’s just a waste of our limited time and emotional capacity for idiocy.

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I miss boring liberal America where our absurd bullshit was just ours and not leaking out into the world.