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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Sadly, half of voting Americans think you're a fascist, Chinese bot.
Or a woke commie queer groomer in drag.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

~~half~~ 1/10th of voting Americans.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eligible, not voting. It's roughly 1/3 of voting folks are maga.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Ding! Ding! Ding!

EVERYONE here has the internet, yet 4 wrong answers before this...!!!

[–] 2ndSkin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

maga is 1/10th of voting Americans?

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Remember only 2/3  of the country votes that has the ability to vote
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're claiming there are 800 million eligible voters in the USA?
And you got upvoted at least 10 times!

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You may notice how I said. I believe not that I factually looked it up. The source was it came to me in a dream this is why it's important to do research on the internet and to use good reading comprehension skills. I did not make it an authoritative statement. You should not have read it as one. Now that I've looked it up I've edited it

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But even when someone doesn't vote, that doesn't mean they aren't Maga?

So if half of voters are Maga and 1/3 of eligible voters actually vote, it's almost impossible to say something about the population as a whole. We can say about 16% would be the lower limit, but it could be a lot higher. If we take the voters as an unbiased large sample, we could extrapolate and say 50% of the population is actually Maga. But since voters are by definition a biased sample, it's hard to say what the actual number would be. Especially with humans, that have complex interactions, like a certain persuasion could actually mean someone is less likely to vote. Or the other way around, where wanting to vote makes one persuasion more likely. This makes the whole thing pretty hard.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

TLDR: Math is hard.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

so, so wrong...can't you google?

[–] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately it's way more than that :(

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why not both?

I mean, I can be a woke queer, fascist, Chinese groomer in drag that's a bot, can't I? It's a free country ;)

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

"Equal in the eyes of the Creator" allows us to be us, without adversely affecting our equals.
The hypocrites don't believe in mirrors.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could, but I'd imagine your therapist sending you a fruit cake every year at christmas as a thank you for latest new lambo you funded

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Well, are you okay? You're kinda not making much sense in your comments here. Like, the individual sentences make sense, sorta (this one anyway), but they don't match what you're responding to very well.

It makes it seem like you're responding to the wrong comments. Is that the case? Gods know I fuck that up myself.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Woke commie queer is my middle name