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Blue collar white voters are apparently the stupidest morons to ever idiot. This shit was clear to anyone above a 5th grade reading level a decade ago.
As a blue collar white voter I absolutely did not vote for the orange pedophile, not the first time and certainly not the second time. Of my co workers at my shop, only 2 are "Republican" and only one actually supports trump (he's almost 70 and illiterate, connect the dots). In my industry, I am very fortunate to be surrounded by such good co workers...
54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
Here's a great example of how that compares to other adjacent grades.
So the average reader has no critical thought or perspective but rather focuses on the emotion they feel on what was said. No wonder the FOX crowd is so easily swayed by angry actors presenting their case with the same few trigger words on loop.
You say that like you're smarter then that. Or like your apart of a group that is better than that. But you're not. Like it's 15 years into this shit and you're comment sounds like you're just realizing this. Wait until you find out they're also aware of this and not only do they use it to their benefit, you'll find the group your in is totally ignorant to this. You're being astonished at a bard playing music to rally his group while you're in a group with bards that think music is stupid.
You're on fucking lemmy after they convinced everybody here to leave social media. Wake up
Look around. We are herded into the most uncreative communities meant to stifle momentum. This community is for posting only news articles from certain sites and only about a certain topic. This other community is for memes, but only memes about Y. For YZ memes we have YZ meme community. Don't even think about posting YZ memes in Y that's a ban. This other community is for posting about beans.
But they're the fucking stupid ones
Moderated right into our pens
Like you said it's a community thing. There's a spectrum of acceptable behavior inside each one. I simply choose the one with the widest band possible at the end of my political preference. I still venture out into the tankie and hard R conservative crowd on occasion to keep perspective on the bigger picture though.
We're not immune to propaganda but it's easier to see the overlapping issues we all face and care about but end up being divided on how to solve it based on our personal and political leanings.
not as a matter of disbelief, but statements like this are good to accompany with a source.
Maybe you should disbelieve. Studies show 82% of unsourced facts shared online were false.
Not OP, but this corroborates the statement. https://www.nu.edu/blog/49-adult-literacy-statistics-and-facts/
That's why I only believe 28% of things I read online.
60% of the time, it works every time.
I like how that adds up to 110%.
Intentional or just bad math? The world may never know.
;-)
The source to most statistics can be found by googling, "Statistician, Todd Snider"
Snider, innit?
Correct, autocorrect strikes again
As someone who works around a lot of white blue-collar workers, yes they really are the dumbest most pig headed idiots you will ever find. No amount of evidence, financial pain, or debate will change their stupid, shrivled, idiot minds.
Any story?
Politically related I work with a 23 yo self proclaimed "christian nationalist, ultra capitalist" who believes every single rightwing conspiracy and and talking point. He also constantly complains about how he's not paid enough but also that the centi-millionaire inherited owner of the company works hard enough to earn all his money despite playing golf 4 day a week.
In terms of good old fashioned stupid, I once saw an operator disable the guardingnon a machine, proceed to lose a finger to said machine. Then after being given a second chance less than a week back on the job decided it was a good idea to disable the same guarding again. Luckily he got fired before he had a chance to lose any more digits.
I’m a union construction worker and I’m back in college to escape this blue collar magat infested industry. These dudes are handed a six figure job right out of high school through nepotism and these unions are run like white supremisist gangs. It’s horrible they’re so fucking stupid 90% are cult level pro MAGA turds and it’s the unions fault because that’s the culture they’ve fostered because anyone who stands up to the systemic abuse and discrimination gets blackballed.