So, yeah. They want the National Guard/military to stomp out the riots.
United States Majority of Polled Americans Now Desire National Guard/Military to Ongoing Crush Riots
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So, yeah. They want the National Guard/military to stomp out the riots.
Translation: Majority of Americans want to stomp out the riots themselves, but also want to avoid legal trouble.
Wouldn't surprise me. First time gun sales have gone through the roof, too.
I mean, if it weren't for all the guns & ammo I had before this started, I too would be gearing up.
Doomsought
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Can you find the source of those polls?
prinCZess
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If true...Unsurprising. This is why I've never understood accelerationists in principle or the idea black bloc tactics will somehow be helpful or attractive--there is absolutely nothing more geared to making people support some very heavy state crackdowns as images of 'anarchy' and the breakdown of law & order in metropolitan areas. In the US? It's a large component of what drove Nixon into office. It's part of what got Reagan a bunch of support (crack was/is a hell of a drug). And it's what ginnied up bipartisan support for the 1994 crime bill and associated crackdowns on 'superpredators' and rioting thugs (Joe Biden a notable name in regards to this one and contemporary politics)--all of which contained within it support from the very same communities and leaders as one might not expect from current partisan breakdowns (Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, for instance). You saw similar stuff in miniature after Hurrican Katrina. And you could undoubtedly make a longer list of examples going back further or if you bothered to look internationally.
Folks checked-out of partisan politics aren't going to be going the route of excusing rioting or being sympathetic to it, and that includes great numbers of folks who'd check (D) on ballots.
Folks checked-out of partisan politics aren't going to be going the route of excusing rioting or being sympathetic to it, and that includes great numbers of folks who'd check (D) on ballots.
CarlManvers2019
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Majority, aren't Democrats the majority? I can understand why they'd be silent then
58% Of Voters Support Using Military To Help Police Control Protests, Poll Finds
President Donald Trump has said he’ll deploy the U.S. troops to cities that can’t get rioting under control.
www.forbes.com
Forbes has a link.
Doomsought
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Looking into it, the trump approval rating numbers are meaningless, just confirmation bias. 72% of people already supporting trump said it made them support trump more, and the same fraction for Biden amoung those that did not support trump.58% Of Voters Support Using Military To Help Police Control Protests, Poll Finds
President Donald Trump has said he’ll deploy the U.S. troops to cities that can’t get rioting under control.
Forbes has a link.
Terthna
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If I learned anything from the 2016 election, it's that polls are often inaccurate, usually misleading, and always completely useless without knowing the methodology of the poll in question. Who did they poll, when did the poll take place, where did the poll take place, what question were asked of those polled; any one of those factors, and more besides, could drastically influence the result of the poll.
Floridaman
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There are three types of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Someone find the clip of Yes, Minister on polling...
Floridaman
Well-known member
That's an interesting number and stating of question that should have a split. 33% approve of his actions, ok...
How much of the remaining 67% thinks he should be tougher, and how much of it thinks he should be softer?
It's theoretically possible, and in practice far from unthinkable, that getting majority public approval on handling the protests is just impossible - if, for example, a third support the protests heavily and would like Trump to do so too, a third wanted a crackdown more aggressive than current, and a third supports how Trump handled it so far...
Prince Ire
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An ABC poll find that 52% of Americans support using the military against violent protestors. Interestingly, the support among Hispanic Americans (60%) is higher than among white Americans (56%).
CarlManvers2019
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They’re all white until they vote otherwise
you know carl as gifts go the latino vote is a pretty nice one.
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
I did mean that the Far Left will reclassify lots of them as being white, if they let out they’re latin-americans, then they lose some points and part of their narrative
Every minority that speaks out against insanity is another blow, they’ll try to ignore