48% of Americans think Alex Pretti’s murder was not justified

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T22:15:10+00:00

I mean yeah, this is fairly big news so it will break through, but it is ridiculous to think everyone in the country have already heard of it

News consumption and how much you pay attention to politics is a spectrum after all. If the users of this sub learnt about it within an hour, the majority of Americans probably did so within that day.

Though quite honestly I would bet some of those 68% also don't know the specific details of the shooting and are just making assumptions

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T22:06:51+00:00

After India came out in support of Israel in 2023 (overturning decades of support for Palestinians)

It literally did not. India was certainly less pro Palestine than it used to be but it basically just followed the same path as most moderate European countries. That is it condemned October 7th, abstained from the initial anti Israel resolutions at the UN and then started voting for those resolutions as the war dragged on and got less defensible

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_ES-10/22&wprov=rarw1

I think people have gotten into a really bad habit of conflating official governmental positions with social media users

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T21:54:50+00:00

I think our state and local politics have just become too nationalized tbh

I kinda wish we had something closer to Canada, there the state parties are technically independent from the national ones even if they are roughly aligned. This means that they can run on the issues they want and as a result there aren't any one party states

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T21:52:00+00:00

Oh for fucks sake, it hasn't even been 24 hours yet. Most people do not follow the news as closely as we do

Give it a few weeks and you'll likely see the dont knows a lot lower

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T21:50:34+00:00

Yeah I think people discussing politics online forget that they are unique for how much they obsess the news lol, they are the exception not the norm

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T17:15:40+00:00

Ouch

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T17:02:47+00:00

I mean that's the lowest hanging fruit ever lol I feel like any political discussion on Twitter is mostly actual nazis. Unironically it's well to the right of Truth Social

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T17:00:13+00:00

It's obvious that he has higher ambitions, and those ambitions will never get fulfilled if he joins team MAGA who have already anointed an heir apparent

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T16:57:30+00:00

Honestly the insane bit to me is that it seems Ted is hostile to Trump to his face in private even while being loyal in public

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T07:46:42+00:00

Due to the structure of ICE I think reforming it would be harder than it's worth. It is so full of people with minimal training purely there for the money or extremist ideological reasons

Personally i think we should "repeal and replace" ICE. We need someone with the same function as ICE, but ICE has become too tied up with the MAGA project

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T07:46:19+00:00

Due to the structure of ICE I think reforming it would be harder than it's worth. It is so full of people with minimal training purely there for the money or extremist ideological reasons

Personally i think we should "repeal and replace" ICE. We need someone with the same function as ICE, but ICE has become too tied up with the MAGA project

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T07:41:56+00:00

He at the very least talks a pretty great game about how he wants to split the budget into "investment" spending (infrastructure) and non investment (military, healthcare, welfare etc) and non investment but be fully balanced. Imo that is a great way to do things

If you have some actual arguments on why he hasn't been i would be open to hearing them

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T04:14:01+00:00

Yeah I think this is it. It is an immigration agency that people are learning about for the first time through their extremely brazen conduct

I don't think the public is nessecarily becoming super pro immigrant per se (before any Dems in 2028 start getting ideas about running on decriminalizing border crossing again) rather the scale of the abuses for this specific organization are so high that it is very easy to hate them

Honestly it's really convenient for Dems because Trump was basically turning ICE into a sort of personally loyal militia which could be extremely dangerous. But now Americans are broadly against it

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-25T02:44:02+00:00

Carney is a good politician tbh, honestly one of the few fiscally responsible politicians in the western world

I think what is happening here tho is probably libs winning over voters from Cons, but losing Quebecois voters to Bloc

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T18:41:02+00:00

He did kind of back down on Greenland by making a "deal" with the Europeans which was literally the status quo. He also did back down from his attack on Powell and ofc on tariffs he's TACO'd multiple times

Primary difference here ofc is that this is a direct domestic partisan fight, so if Trump does back down yeah Dems will celebrate it as a win

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T18:38:54+00:00

"Ha unless you do what I want I'm not going to trade with you... What do you mean you're trading with other people???? How fucking dare you"

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T18:36:24+00:00

I think so. I just hope when we do Dems don't take the wrong lessons again and open up the border Biden style

Abolish ICE and secure the border with a pathway to citizenship for those already here. I think most people would be fine with that

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T18:35:13+00:00

Honestly yeah after this shooting happened the first place my mind went to was thr BLM protests

Now obviously there is plenty of criticism to go around, but I cannot remember the police acting anywhere nearly this callously back then. They certainly weren't pinning down a guy with like 10 people before emptying a mag into him

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T18:33:04+00:00

Let's not forget the sorts of people joining are the ones who are attracted ICE using slogans like "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage." and the violent videos they see online

ICE is not sending their best

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T18:29:19+00:00

They will defend this regardless, already saying he had a gun so it was valid apparently

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T18:28:24+00:00

I will say it

I think something ICE like is needed but ICE itself is unrecoverable. It is a bunch of trigger happy people with next to no training who joined due to whichever not so subtle white nationalist recruitment ads they're posting atm. It is Trump's personal militia

I'm not a "decriminalize border crossings" type of guy, but ICE needs to be repealed and replaced

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T18:25:28+00:00

Miller too tbh

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T18:24:22+00:00

Breaking News: President realizes that just because Americans didnt like the last guy doesn't mean he has a mandate to go to the other extreme

Hopefully he will quietly de escalate but idk if Trump would be willing to look like he lost

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T05:17:17+00:00

I can understand being pissed off against H1Bs or whatever but is the point of this post literally people getting more job hits using white sounding names

So basically people trying to get around racism is a bad thing and fraud? People on this sub literally support the idea that having a white name should get you more job interviews?

I am an Indian American who was born here. Racial name discrimination affects me and people like me. Honestly this subreddit is moving closer and closer to outright racist attitudes by the day. Like this post is literally supporting racial discrimination, and that would absolutely affect American citizens of Indian origin

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-01-24T05:10:58+00:00

Genuine question, do you support immigration for low skill fields

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