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Re:Statement from Poland on providing airplanes to Ukraine by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @05:55PM (#30608454)
Why do you think an opinion poll of the general public has any value here?

Poll the public on general relativity or quantum physics and they’ll likely get it wrong. The same is probably true for complex geopolitical questions.

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Re:Statement from Poland on providing airplanes to Ukraine by Ourgon on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:27PM (#30608805)
Because the general public is supposed to be the people who get to vote for your president? The US is, after all, supposed to be a representative republic - that "representative" stands for "representing the general public".

I thought that would be clear without the need for any explanation. Maybe the fact that explanation is needed gives an indication of the sorry state of the democratic process.

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Re:Statement from Poland on providing airplanes to Ukraine by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:50PM (#30609043)
Polling the public is a great way to see who might win an election.

It’s an insanely silly way of assessing “what would Putin have done in an alternate timeline”.

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