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It's a valid comment, but I disagree that you have to reach that conclusion.
This poll gives a better picture of US citizens' ability (or lack thereof) to obtain and understand basic facts when you combine it with actual data. I.e., the facts alone tell us only what reality is, and the opinion poll alone only tells us what Americans think, but together they tell us how well-informed Americans are.
That, in turn, helps suggest (even if proof is harder) how effective right-wing information technology is, how seamless the Fox News/influencer/social media info bubbles are.
And, as depressing as it is, opinions (the perceptions of a party's or candidates' culpability and capability) decide elections where reality and opinion are in conflict. 2024 proved at least to me that we have reached an inflection point and entered the Disinformation Age, where propaganda actually can consistently win out against reality by sheer flood of disinformation, if it's not moderated or regulated.
As soon as a news story includes both the feeling and the fact, your comment becomes valid.
I get the snark, but honestly, we are all capable of synthesizing information from multiple sources - a story can be useful even if it supplies just one or more true premises of a valid conclusion.
Fair. Point me to a news story that contains the facts so that I may sufficiently synthesize.
Why should they need to? You're plenty capable #1 and #2 you were informed of the facts somehow. I'm sure you didn't come to that conclusion by parsing raw data from consumer reports or the FTC.
Your comments are far too arrogant for how completely ignorant they are.
You wanna know why I believed that America would become a fascist dictatorship 25 years ago? Because of combining my opinion of watching Fox News (considering it to be fascist propaganda) with raw stats, like Fox News being the #1 cable news network, with numerous other opinion polls proving that R's perception of events were dependent on Fox propaganda, divergent from both reality and D/I opinions of reality. I knew R's were the most propagandized population in America because other populations opinion polling did not change anywhere near as significantly over time, nor did it mirror the changing narratives of propaganda. These have been reinforced continuously by the vast majority of both polling and other raw stats since then.
In statistics, all data points are some abstract proxy that attempt to measure reality. They are not reality itself, and none of them can be trusted to provide some end all be all proof of reality. Even math itself is an abstract representation (language) we use to understand and communicate.
What you wrote has fuck-all to do with Triumph's point that the entire media industry reporting on opinions INSTEAD OF facts means it isn't doing its goddamn job.