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  I don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general
  Maybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done
context: What is scary is 23% don't.  Same MAGA number every time. >
  
  The entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense.  They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all.  They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.
  The cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections.  The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people.  The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake.  We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity. >
  
  Turns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting. >
  
  You ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low.  On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line. >
  
  Trust me, in Celsius using areas, they're using the same idiom whenever talking about people who vote Republican. >
  
  It's negative 40 IQ in either scale >
  
  It’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :( >
  
  Vote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life. >
  
  Gotta have 5 years for the pension. >
  
  I think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well. >
  
  Maybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll. >
  
  Didn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out. >
  
  I mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS. >
  
  If I remember correctly, a lot of Asian Americans in NYC swapped to Republican this election because of the upswing of Asian hate crimes and the democrat stance on crime handling
  It should be noted most of the attacks on Asian Americans here are not right wing motivated >
  
  Great logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida. >
  
  Don’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. 
  You have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.
  The Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.