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[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I looked up the tweet because I refused to believe 80% of Americans are in favor of airstrikes.

https://x.com/Osint613/status/1935360062274552236

80% of Americans don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. But when asked about airstrikes, 48% support airstrikes to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, and 47% don't. 70% of Republicans support an airstrike, but 30% don't. All this Based on a CNN poll that I'm sure is completely unbiased (lol).

I don't blame OP for taking a screenshot of a sensational headline. But this Twitter account criminally misrepresented the video that they posted.

Americans are split 50/50 when it comes to airstrikes on Iran to prevent them from gaining a nuclear weapon. That is depressing and frustrating, but it is also so far away from 80% support for airstrikes that I can only assume "OS Int" is purposefully lying. The fact that everyone commenting on this tweet has obviously not watched the 80 seconds of video, is depressing, frustrating, and exactly what I expect from my fellow Americans.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

Classic osint account misinfo. Love it.

[–] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't ever watch CNN of my own free will.

I also wouldn't repost any CNN clips or anything either though

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Care to elaborate?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

CNN's never met a war it didn't like.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

American war. Everyone else's wars are bad, though.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

They were born from a war. Violence is their nursery.

[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What percent have a favorable view when you you the terms "war with Iran"?

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 47 points 2 months ago

It's the same shit as "no fly zones" - washing the act of the inherent violence of it to make it seem like more people approve

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago

straight up 90% oppose

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

Less than 20% support war against Iran including republicans and democrats and independents…

[–] TheaJo@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago

yes this poll is definitely unbiased

[–] kota@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago

tbh I'm quite surprised 20 percent of CNN's audience wants Iran to have nukes

[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The farce is strong with this one. CNN will continue pushing the narrative that Iran is a danger to the US, when they damn well know it isn't. They can reuse all their old graphics simply by replacing the 'q' in Iraq with an 'n'.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

No one wants to work anymore 😔

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Assuming those numbers are true, then that justifies foreign intervention into the US to stop them invading another country.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If our planet was remade into a fictional story and our country depicted accurately along with others (while obscuring telltale details), people would literally side against us.

Our country's birth is literally akin to the Orcish horde in warcraft invading Azeroth, and then never ending wars from its birth. Our wars span the globe and we kill at least a million people per war, with generals who deeply want to use nukes (Curtis LeMay literally wanted to drop nukes over 70 Russian cities to wipe them out, saying it would be a month-long third world war; MacArthur wanted to nuke China; there were even Pentagon proposals to nuke Vietnam).

Can you imagine telling an alien invasion story from the perspective of the aliens, showing them like us, as supposedly 'reasonable' and committing horrific atrocities against us 'but hey! That's okay! Humans, especially the white ethnicity from the America region, are very violent; the peaceful ones among them will thank us as liberators!'; and also showing the families of their troops worried about the safety of their boys? You'd have scenes of the aliens killing people fighting back and depicting the aliens as the victims.

Alien looks at young human fighter going for a gun mumbling 'don't do it', and then firing: What is wrong with these people? I hate this place; why are they all like this?

[–] Skye@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least the Orcish horde had the courtesy of accidentally blowing up their Europe-equivalent as part of their invasion

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Khadgar did nothing wrong

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dante was mistaken. The 8th circle of hell is for television "journalists"

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Hey, he's a "data analyst"

[–] neo@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No pollster is brave enough to ask this question: "Would you enlist to fight in a war?"

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

That's the real "where the rubber meets the road" question.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

Bullshit lol.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And people I know called me crazy for saying the majority of Americans are in favour of war in Iran.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Something something opposed to every war except the current one.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago
[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Newkular weapons?! But those weapons are massively destructive!

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

20% of the America that watches CNN is extremely based??

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No one wants anyone to have nukes. This is a dumb poll

Let’s see who wants Israel to have nukes next

Why isn’t Israel part of the non nuclear proliferation treaty?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago

I want Iran to have a nuke...

[–] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't the average of the three numbers be 80.33 repeating percent? I know the spread isn't equal between these three but come on! Are they implying that there are so few GOP supporters that their 4% higher support doesn't even make the needle twitch?

Seems made up to me.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago
[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

They want boots on the ground so bad