• huppakee@piefed.social
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    In other news this week:

    In North Korea’s 2026 parliamentary elections, Kim Jong Un achieved a landslide win as the Workers’ Party of Korea and its coalition partners reportedly captured 99.93 per cent of the ballot and every available seat, according to Yonhap News Agency, which cited state media reports.

    With a reported turnout of 99.99 per cent, the polls were conducted on March 15 to select deputies for the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly.

    https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/kim-jong-un-sweeps-north-korea-polls-with-9993-per-cent-mandate

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      I assume the 0.07% are soon going to die from natural causes as part of their government mandated “being shot with a bazooka” test?

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    If it wouldn’t be so depressing, I would lookup the figures surrounding the poll as well as methodology. Was it like 6 people all in the same room. In what world do 100% of any group of humans agree with anything outside of a cult. Ohhhhhhh

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      Nah, poll was fine. Its all in their stupid presentation. Check out the hilarious tiny text in the the bottom right corner:

      “66%/31% split among non maga”

      The above could as easily been said “Vast majority of people polled disapprove of Trump, at record levels” but instead they teased out the only positive bit of data, blew it up to take up 99% of the screen, then hid the real polling results in a way that they can claim they referenced them accurately.

      A modern example of “Lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

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        I don’t know if I agree. Is the point of this to show good news for him or was it to show a political reality that no matter what happens his base will never ever abandon him?

        Because we certainly all seen the hopium articles being posted for the last year and a half. About how his base was finally waking up. It’s always been a lie, this just proves it.

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          I think the statistic shown coveys literally zero info.To be MAGA is to support trump. Its the definiton of the movement. 20-30% of the people polled will always 100% support him. Its why he made his famous quip in 2016 about being able to kill a man on 5th avenue in broad daylight and still get away with it. For those people, being a rich, racist asshole rapist who never faces consequences is their dream, and they love him for living it.

          The most people can hope for from his diehard crowd is that they dont feel up to voting in the midterms becsuse hes not on the ballot.

          The actual hope has largely been about his 2024 coalition falling apart, the young men, the independents, the latinos, the people who vote for low gas prices and cheap groceries. His support in those groups have been destroyed from a dozen directions, and a forever war in Iran that permanently raises gas priced $1-2/gal and kills american troops aint gonna bring them back.

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    They wouldn’t spend time claiming this if they weren’t worried about it. Epstein, gas prices, and forever wars maybe having an effect.

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    I’m kind of surprised because I would expect at least some of them to want him to be even Trumpier than he is. Why hasn’t he invaded Greenland already? Nuke fucking Gaza and be done with it. And so on. No way all of MAGA is completely satisfied with what they’ve got.

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      dumb dumbs dont have policies they want

      this is the central thing that people dont get. they want their guy winning because it feels good to be in the group that is winning. if their guy is on tv saying “i am winning” they are happy. if you had the president you wanted and that president did the opposite of what you wanted, you would be mad. not these guys.

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    I doubt that static is even close to true, surely the majority of crack addicts hate crack I mean addiction is a chemical compulsion to do something bad for you I doubt they love or even like crack once it starts ruining their lives.