Summary: Republicans are 50/50, everyone else is strongly opposed.
Why is this in !world@lemmy.world ?
I am tired of USAsians’ navel-gazing.
As an American, the fact that 25% are for it or indifferent is a shameful number…
We don’t have the right to judge we unleashed this evil pedofile on this planet
It’s worth looking at the framing of this. CNN asked, “Would you (favor) or (oppose) the U.S. attempting to take control of Greenland?” A poll from 4 days early found, when specifically asked about taking over Greenland by force, found it was a 86% support, 9% oppose.
Trump has made several bids to buy Greenland, and I think most of the support in this poll is for that option. I think the majority of Americans really don’t believe he’ll send the military to Greenland and destroy the NATO alliance. They think this is a negotiating tactic, and they are seriously mistaken.
Thanks for the other poll. :) But in your link, you have confused “oppose” and “support”. :)
86% opposed
Most people : don’t do it
Government leaders: don’t do it
Business: don’t do it
Academics: don’t do it
All other countries and states in the world: don’t do it
Trump: I’m gonna do it.
It’s not only trump, that’s the sad thing. Trump is just a puppet, controlled by people behind the curtains. Look at this project 2025. There are plenty of powerful people who are pulling the strings of Trump and the next Republican candidate.
Long gone are the days when politicians were actually working for their voters. Now it is all about social media propaganda. And guess what, making education unaffordable works wonders for those people. They don’t want rational human beings, they just want easy to control and manipulate sheep.
“And just like that, everything changed. At that terrible moment, in our hearts, we knew. Home was a pen. Humanity, cattle.”
And the other 25% are straight up Nazis.
It says “…Of Americans”, so the optimist in me says “25% of people didn’t know about or answer the poll.”
Can the Lt ever find Greenland on a ma? Are people still falling for Lief Ericsson’s lies?
that number should be 100%
It practically is. There’s no reason any sane citizen with no stake would be for going to war against a peaceful ally. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
So. No one will talk about the 48% of Americans that are okay with abducting the President in charge of a sovereign country so rich Americans could snatch them away their oil?
Yes, foreigners, if you go to the USA, apparently that’s a hot topic.
Be honest if aliens from space showed up and just abducted Trump and put him into space prison, how angry would you be about that?
If only ONE of those 75% was Trump.
Too bad most of them elected a dictator.
Not really a facts based dig, it’s not as if America has highly democratic elections or a system that actually wants people to vote
They should do a poll how many wanna never see Trump’s ugly face again?
They should do a poll how many wanna never see Trump’s ugly face again?
Y’know after the douchebag stuck his mugshot on the “America the Beautiful” National Park pass, people selling stickers to cover his stupid ugly face raised $13,000 towards National Parks.
So…that’s kinda a poll, and it sends a pretty stark message! :p
The government said it could void the pass if people “deface” the cards by covering Dear Leader.
Given that seeing his face is basically visual molestation, I can see why tons of people “who buy a pass every year” opted to not bother.
I wouldn’t mind seeing it again but it depends on the circumstance. And the amount of circumstances depends on the “creativity” of others.
I don’t even need violence done to him.
Take away all his money and power and make him walk around the country selling rotten eggs or tomatoes you get to throw at him. And that’s how he has to pay for his life from now on.
Like Trump will listen, you all gonna get deported for that.
Will they oppose it though? Or just sit on their arses and do nothing?
No, they want to be thanked for their service and be good bootlickers
As we’ve been seeing, mostly the latter.
He’s already ripped apart the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments at least and no one seems to care, not even the military, who are supposed to defend it.Few elected officials seem to care, but plenty of ordinary people are waking up to the fact that political power is not something you can give away in a vote, it’s something you have to take.
no, through decades of propaganda they have been conditions either to think nothing will happen or something will “EVENTUALly” put a stop to it. thats why the protests if you call it that are largely ineffective, only a small portion of people are doing it.
25% of Americans are perfectly fine with the US just taking over independent countries. 75% oppose but only if they don’t have to do anything other than answer a poll.
75% is an awfully low number.
You could probably poll 10,000 random Americans and find about 25% that would be in favor of eating lightbulbs and severing diplomatic ties with the magical land of Oz. That bottom 25% of Americans has got some real issues.
25% of people being propagandised beyond reason is a high number, yes.
Truthfully at this point I’m satisfied that 15% aren’t undecided on the issue
Hitting 75% agreement in US politics is honestly unusual today, so I think it’s a good sign that Trump has domestic opposition on this one
Unusual? “Breathing” would struggle to break 60%. 75% is functionally unanimous.
Not in US politics. If you have 51% of votes of whoever is The Party at the moment, you can make decisions without others impeding on them.
If one party got 51 % of votes, then that means 26,01 % of all votes is enough to decide about the all of the country’s things alone.
Domestic opposition doesn’t mean shit if they don’t do anything about it.
I didn’t know if that’s “doing” anytime. It’s all rhetoric.
They also said all sorts of stuff about curbing his actions in Venezuela but when it came time to vote they couldn’t even get it to need a veto.
Maybe violating European sovereignty is a bridge enough to actually pass something, but I expect them to just let the veto happen
To be fair, all Trump has done on this is espew rhetoric also
One interesting point in the article you posted rather than OP’s is that according to Ipsos only 17% of Americans approve of taking Greenland. I have no clue what the truth is but that number ‘feels’ a little more accurate.
In short that would mean 17% of Americans are ride or die MAGA which sadly is a believable number.
Note that violent means only had 4%. So 13% wouldn’t mind a peaceful purchase. Which is still dumb but at least not as outright insane as Stephen Miller would go.
Do keep in mind there usually is a “I don’t know” option. So both numbers can be true.
You’ll excuse me if I don’t put much stock in the promises of Republican lawmakers. Particularly Murkowski.
Ask yourself, honestly, what will they do when push comes to shove?
25% is a huge tipping point for social dynamics.
If he loses just a little more support the whole MAGA movement will begin to unravel.
Didn’t Trump pass an internet privacy bill in his first term with like 7% approval? Wasn’t his first Healthcare plan also around that approval, though that didn’t pass. Isn’t national background checks for gun sales at like 95%? Why do people think their opinion matters?
I think these polls are good to put our opinions on the public record.
Yeah, but they also make it clear to the world that we don’t live in a democracy. Especially when we go around trying to spread it around the world.
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People are made vulnerable to their idol going haywire - by the need to rationalize having supported him. Thus the 50% of Republicans who bluescreened with “great leader always correct”. If they have time to read up on the issue, it will drop a bit.
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making big assumptions here
“They did not choose to read up on the issue.”
-Narrator
Polls are the most reliable way to be disappointed in humanity.
No, it really isn’t.
25% of Americans being in favour of invading a NATO country without provocation is insane levels of crazy
OP’s poll doesn’t say anything about military action. It just asks whether the US should try to acquire Greenland.
The Qunnipiac poll shows that when the question explicitly includes military action, opposition is 86%: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-voters-widely-opposed-taking-greenland-military-force/story?id=129280864
More likely: 50% of Republicans are still waiting for instructions what to think.
Yeah! We need to take Greenland because checks notes that’s where fentanyl comes from and without it we will get more brown people!
Seriously brown people are all the argument they need. The racism is insane with the party. Maybe they can say that Greenland is being invaded by tren de aragua and we need to bring ice there to improve our community. It’s the same logic we already have right? As in, devoid of it.
Inuits are pretty brown.
Fent is just powdered Lego
Trump is probably on a personal Vendetta against Denmark because he stepped on a LEGO brick in some girls room at Epsteins place.
In truth he is in hoc to Putin, Putin wants Nato to die. The president of the US does not have the juice to pull us out of Nato direct, but they figure they can whip up nationalistic furor to imperial expansion to kill it.
*on what to believe. Thinking is hard.
stand back and stand by
They’re not looking very hard then, because republican leadership and propaganda machines have been peddling that thought for months.
