• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    I don’t know how trustworthy these search trends are. For example if you type in “where did I put my” it will complete all kinds of stuff like “keys” and “wallet” and “passport” which seems to imply that people are regularly asking Google where they placed items in their own house.

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    22 hours ago

    This is all bullshit, designed to start another wave of outrage. Even after the election, we’ve gotta have more stuff to rage about. News these days is just rage all day every day, no matter what.

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      I’ve said it the whole election cycle. The news downplayed every Trump gaffe because they wanted him back to fuel the outrage click machine. They wanted that sweet revenue back after 4 boring years of Biden just ya know doing his fucking job.

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      I had to have new anxiety meds called in because all of the political stuff is sending me into panic attacks. I’ve been avoiding politics as much as possible since the day after the election because it causes so much anxiety.

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    Is this the “Find out” stage then?

    Actions have consequences. Sad people had to figure it out this way.

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      Sad others among us will have to pay more than those that caused the problem. But such is America and so is history.

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    The relative numbers are worth little without knowing the underlying numbers. If it went from 100 to 700 people, that is still negligble. Also crazy how people immediately take that as a base to remove voters rights unless they pass some sort of test. Nothing could go wrong with stripping voters rights amirite?

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    Bloody hell, this is the US version of Brexit… this world would be such a better place if people just did the bare minimum of reading into what they were actually voting for before they fucking voted!

    Also, seeing the other top searches being about the tariffs would have me creasing if it weren’t so disappointingly stupid that these peoole seemingly knew nothing about Trumps most advertised economic policy before (assumably) voting for him

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      Whenever I see all the trash on the side of the road, I know why the world is that way.

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      No, the US version of Brexit was Trump’s first term, since they both happened in the same year.

      This is just people saying they know exactly how bad Brexit went the first time and they want that again.

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      I think that most of them do a lot of reading. The problem is that they just read news and info that they like and have no ability to criticise arguments. Critic thinking is the main problem imho.

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    Once again, these are the a validation headlines that create and support echo chambers. Honestly, what does it matter now?

    We already know the regret is strong on this nation and will only get worse.

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    I love it. America’s last hope and people failed. Fuck this place. Let the civil war begin.

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    Are we all just assuming these searches are from people who regret their votes and hoped to be able to change it?

    I double checked my ballot before submitting it, with full knowledge that irrevocability is the price of anonymity. Nevertheless, I might use similar search terms if I was curious how many other voters, possibly in other states or with different political alignments, had written about regretting their votes. Or, perhaps, … if I was doing research for a post-election article about the topic.

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      That’s a great point. The Trump team tried to get all voter information from all states in 2020. Ostensibly to verify voter fraud. But this data was probably used to create such voter suppression systems as Eagle AI.

      So they know who you voted for.