• DigitalDilemma@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    America does not care about truth. Worse, it actively discourages truth.

    Lying is accepted. Making up facts that suit your narrative and shouting down anyone who disagrees gets you rewarded with the highest position of state.

    We, the rest of the world, are just watching you guys in horror.

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        At least - no, in that case it wouldn’t have happened. At most half. I’d say it’s way below half.

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            5 hours ago

            Voters who (to add to your point), don’t represent half the country, because 90 million out of 240 million voters didn’t vote at all. I think the number of non-voters went up a bit but not too far away from the average pres. election

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            I’m saying if at least half the population was horrified they’d have voted. The people that didn’t vote are apathetic. You can’t subtract people who voted for him from total and group them as against him

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              You can when there have been several news stories about groups who abstained or chose to vote 3rd party deeply regretting their choice.

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      America does not care about truth

      Show me a country with social media and I’ll show you people who value making their political opponents ‘look like fools’ by lying.

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        Makes sense. The Internet was the peak of the information age and usually with any cultural push their is the counter culture equivalent. When any truth could be found in seconds we now find ourselves where any opinion can be fed enough backing to feel like a truth.