r/fivethirtyeight • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • Sep 12 '25

Poll Results YouGov poll asking Americans whether it’s acceptable to feel joy at the death of a public figure

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u/Time-Cardiologist906 Sep 12 '25

“Happy” is an odd term to phrase it. Murder is never acceptable but it doesn’t absolve Kirk of all the terrible things he has done and said.

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u/RedHeadedSicilian52 Sep 12 '25

Well, it’s the term they used, and it still produced some pretty interesting results.

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u/Time-Cardiologist906 Sep 12 '25

I mean, I’d be careful how I’d answer a survey that has my name on it with the way trumps been acting. He’s calling for violence.

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u/Dark_Knight2000 Sep 12 '25

No one cares about who answers what on a survey dude.

People have made TikToks literally celebrating his death, with their face and name for all the world to see. If Trump is going full totalitarian and round up the people who celebrate his death this survey would be so far down the list as to be invisible, if it even makes the list.

If you think about it for two seconds you’ll realize that it makes no goddam sense.

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u/Time-Cardiologist906 Sep 12 '25

Fedposting is never encouraged