54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
Blue-collar white voters are, for the first time, seriously doubting Mr. Trump’s handling of the economy.
5 days ago by Valuy to c/politics
LibertyLizard 19 points 5 days ago
Maybe you should disbelieve. Studies show 82% of unsourced facts shared online were false.
BassTurd 14 points 5 days ago
Not OP, but this corroborates the statement. https://www.nu.edu/...
CannonFodder 6 points 5 days ago
That's why I only believe 28% of things I read online.
ProdigalFrog 10 points 5 days ago
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.
Someonelol 11 points 5 days ago
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.
Melvin_Ferd -7 points 5 days ago
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
Bad_Engineering 22 points 5 days ago
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.
Bad_Engineering 8 points 5 days ago
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.
innermachine 8 points 5 days 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...
Formfiller 5 points 5 days ago
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.
Einskjaldi 3 points 4 days ago
Let's go Brandon stickers and stuff were pretty common in blue collar worker areas
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TheRiskiestBiscuit 51 points 5 days ago
I still hear “I voted for Trump three times, but…” on a regular basis. Trump voters by-and-large aren’t repentant and they don’t give the appearance of the cognitive capacity necessary for “doubting”. That would imply reconsideration based on available facts. What they are doing now would be better described as “musing idly about the specific self-serving details of”.
SqueakySpider 6 points 5 days ago
Being ableist is plainly wrong
SqueakySpider 1 point 4 days ago
Sorry you're too stupid to choose an insult that isn't bigoted??
Melvin_Ferd -6 points 5 days ago
But they beat you guys
Melvin_Ferd -8 points 5 days ago
No, you're not. In fact when you actually engage with them smartly, a lot really do lean socialist. They just don't realize it because for some strange reason, progressives and leftist decided to abandon channels of communication and to hide away entirely telling each other to block anyone that looked at them funny.
The harsh reality that a lot of you have to face is that they may actually be smarter than the progressive left. They had a higher social awareness and they all knew the rules of the game and played well. We failed to fucking show up time and time again. When we did, it was the most useless fucking bullshit.
We are not what we once were. Go look around this place. Go read comment sections and try to find good insightful commentary that adds to the discussing. It's all bullshit. It is all just repeating the same bullshit over and over again every post every day. Nothing is being created here.
BarneyPiccolo 1 point 4 days ago
for some strange reason
May I introduce you to the Conservative Propaganda Machine?
vaultdweller013 4 points 4 days ago
A gorilla could beat me to death, doesn't mean it's smarter than me.
Melvin_Ferd 1 point 4 days ago
Politics isn't a game of physical strength
BarneyPiccolo 1 point 4 days ago
MAGA cheated.
Melvin_Ferd 1 point 4 days ago
Maybe. Did they face consequences? Who polices the rules?
Astronut 0 points 5 days ago
Oh they accept themselves. They just can’t except that others are not excepting them. It wasn’t a problem until Lord Feltersnatch told them that it was ok to be an asshole and they ran with that! Now they’re finding out that their willful ignorance is starting to cost them big time when it was just supposed to hurt the poor inner city communities.
RedGreenBlue 18 points 5 days ago
They vote republican cause they fear what they percieve democrats being, through the lens of fox propaganda. Trump could personally fk their asses. They still fear democrats and would vote to hider a democrat victory.
4am 4 points 5 days ago
The Fox shit kept working because eveytime republicans win they fuck up the economy and then to fix it the democrats need to spend to stop the bleeding, but they never tax the rich. It always lands on the blue collar guys.
Formfiller 6 points 5 days ago
“falls on the entire working class”. Not just the blue collar magat douchebags. I’m a construction worker and I approve this message
ScissorMeTimbres 4 points 5 days ago
I am a residential finish carpenter and I also approve this message.
fartographer 15 points 5 days ago
Oopsie poopsie, the shit I've been shoveling onto my neighbor's yard has overflowed onto mine. I can't believe my shit-covered hands would do this to me.
anon_8675309 6 points 4 days ago
That’s okay. The Iran deal will make the oil flow again so gas will get cheaper therefore the economy MUST be better. His support amongst the white blue collars will go back up.
alexquiniou 4 points 5 days ago
The first time was not enough ?!
BarneyPiccolo 1 point 4 days ago
Both.
bubblybubbles -3 points 5 days ago
dont really matter, theyll vote MAGA anyways and the few who dont will vote BlueMAGA
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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.
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