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[–] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 62 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Critical support to the people who randomly marked Bernie as far right. You’re all honorary Maoists now.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

2% of Americans apparently

[–] Lemmyglad@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

And they're all on Hexbear lol

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was the guy who said Bernie-Sanders was far-right BTW.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 45 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The fact that 'Not Sure' is so prevalent on here is really telling

Explains a lot that a large swathe of the average voter literally does not know the political leanings of some of the most prominent people in politics

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

To be fair, I have more respect for people who are not sure about Kamala Harris than the ones who believe she's far left.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also to be fair, i ate too much five bean chili last night and it has hardened my heart/colon

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Funniest takeaway from this whole graph is that nobody but the most brain poisoned weirdos knows who Susan Collins is lmao.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It's stunning how many people don't know other state's senators

Hell, there are people who don't know their own senators

I get that senators and representatives are terrible most of the time, but you should at least know their names so you can insult them properly

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My rep is Jimmy Panetta literally the son of a CIA ghoul, but commiefornia right?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

I've earned the personal ire of several Kennedys

I cannot elaborate for OpSec reasons

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

there's 100 senators, i'm not wasting 2/3 of my monkeysphere on those ghouls

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[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

I don't bother knowing my state senators because I can't afford to use one of those stock tracker things that let you copy their insider trading

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

To be fair, Not Sure could also mean, "idk this asshole claims to be for socialism but thinks Israel is a country."

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

True, but amongst USAans, that's probably not a significant amount of people

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[–] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

He's that bastard who defeated President Camacho!

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

"Not sure" is at least somewhat honest, everyone else is mostly just responding by party id. Oh, this person is a Dem - so they are left-wing.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not sure does also accurately describe the political activities of most DNC politi ians anyway so that is actually valid

[–] yellowfattybean@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Joe Biden built his entire 50-year career on being a "don't rock the boat, give your opponent a reach around the aisle" centrist politician. A fact that 92% of usa'ns don't recognize.

manhattan

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

It's like the old saying: if someone tells you who they are (and constantly proves it their entire career with a capstone of doing that same thing) they are LYING TO YOU!! MORE SACRIFICES MUST FLOWWWW! I WILL SACRIFICE 1000 COUNTRIES FOR THE MONEY LINE!!

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

The 4% saying Trump is far-left offers an estimate of how prevalent blue maga is

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

It's obvious how uneducated Americans are because this entire chart should just be a solid red block.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Gotta love that 5-10% that are just contrarian, misguided, uninformed, careless, or picking random numbers.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There's some statistics principle about how, like, 5% of people are just fucking around in every survey and will choose absurd answers for fun. I don't remember what it was called though. Big foot's constant? Moon landing principle? Something like that.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Lizardman constant.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

There's also web crawlers and survey farms that can (in)advertantly influence results.

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[–] Soot@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Would be vastly more interesting to see what.. basically any other nationality than American, would say. Can't imagine a single country population agreeing there's that much leftism there.

Calling anyone here 'far-left' is utterly derisible.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Leftism and leftist can mean pretty much anything in the US. The terms can mean what they are. Or liberals. Or centrists. Or center-right.

For example - PBS New Hours has a "left-right" debate segment. "On the right" is David Brooks. "On the left" is Jonathan Capehart who is center-right. And PBS never lets actual leftists on its show so a great deal of its viewership has no idea what actual leftism is.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

44% not sure for Fetterman is also funny.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago

All of these people are far right except for maybe Mamdani who is center-right, but increasingly more far right as time passes.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

theres some kind of lesson in that the persons described by most as "far left" was repeatedly blocked by the democratic party leadership from reaching executive office despite constant diplomacy and reconciliation... but the person described by most as "far right" has been repeatedly celebrated and exalted by the republican party despite never missing an opportunity to wipe his ass on its membership, and has ascended to a position of total dominance of the party.

[–] Ishmael@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And that lesson is: America is fascist.

(To put it more precisely, both parties are captured by corporate donors and oligarchs)

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 12 points 3 weeks ago

politicians

Elon Musk

I notice the question asked doesn't specify politician, but the title of the graph does and the rest of the people are.

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They left out Turd Ferguson.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's a funny name

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Mamdani is less of a commie than Bernie? Also like how Fetterman is the biggest "not sure" (baring Susan Collins but I think most people don't know who she is).

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

The fascinating part to me is how few Americans describe any politician as being “centrist.” Even broadening it to all three of the center options, no politician hits a majority seeing them as in the center spectrum (Fetterman gets closest at 38%). Illustrates that Americans see the “center” more as an abstract concept than an ideological space people actually occupy.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Newsom far-left 07

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

another day of my crusade against all polling. Idk about yall but if this questionnaire was put in front of me i’d give the most batshit responses guaranteed

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Guessing those people who said Liz Cheney is left had never heard of her until the Harris endorsement

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

so basically the chunk of people from pete buttigieg upwards who say right/far right is indicative of how many tankies there are

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

minus the horseshoe-theory libs who did that for the top 3

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

They probably have no clue who she is but see woman name and think she must be left wing

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This chart sort is weird, Kamala should be above Zohran judging by how they match on "far left" but many more people call her "left" lmao

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Zohran has a lot more people under "not sure", which is probably weighted differently (or discounted for the ranking)

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Give the results a score 1-7, and sort by average, almost certainly.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

You can see the Hexbear voters on the top right of this chart.

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

libs with the sliver of political education required to understand 'communism' is far left but also fully bought into the "dae nazi americans is just like gommunist ruzzia"

honestly simply imagining them these have to be the most insufferable persons in existence. they're going to be so smug and arrogant and insist they know more than you, when their fundamental conceptions are inadmissably poor

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