• @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    15811 months ago

    If the American electorate was slightly less stupid, I’d be ecstatic, because he made himself effectively kryptonite to reasonable, intelligent people with that statement.

    Unfortunately, the American electorate is, on average, that stupid.

    • ALQ
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      5011 months ago

      What’s worse is that the average is weighted further toward stupid by gerrymandering. They’re right that the game is rigged, it’s just not rigged against them.

    • ivanafterall
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      3111 months ago

      Yup. That about sums it up. You guys wanna talk about something else or?

    • Cethin
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      11 months ago

      He said it in 2016 though and has still been re-elected and elected speaker of the house regardless. Hopefully this has an effect on the republican party at large though now. It might fly where he’s from, but it won’t in the US at large. We just need to make sure people know what they’re voting for.

    • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      111 months ago

      On average? 35% of people believing lies makes us all “on average” as stupid as they are? By your own logic, you just be American