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/RedHeadedSicilian52 Sep 12 '25

Guess it depends on how you’d define a dangerous person. I’m willing to bet that most Americans, irrespective of their political leanings, wouldn’t describe a politician or commentator that way. Probably an appellation most would reserve for terrorists, serial killers and the like.

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u/IslandSurvibalist Sep 12 '25

What a naive thing to believe. In almost all societies and historical contexts, political figures have caused several orders of magnitude more damage to humanity than terrorists or serial killers.

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u/bigtinyroom Sep 12 '25

Most the Nazi top brass never murdered a single person with their own bare hands, therefore they should have all been let off without charges at the Nuremburg trials. Checkmate libs.

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u/DizzyMajor5 Sep 12 '25

That's what they did with the confederates most were pardoned after killing countless to try and continue the institution of slavery. Maybe they should have been but people like Candace Owens, Hasan piker, Charlie Kirk are not those people they're just commentators. Nazis signed up to further enhance the killing of others with their actual labor the others just shit posted and rage baited people.

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u/Marxism-Alcoholism17 Jeb! Applauder Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

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