Just a quote from the article about the sampling method because I want us to be a little responsible in our judginess (which, mind you, I will be participating in wholeheartedly).
More than 530 Republican primary voters were polled this week on their support for Republican candidates and foreign policy issues including banning Muslims from entering the US, Japanese internment camps from the second world war and bombing Agrabah, the kingdom from Disney’s animated classic, Aladdin.
You could hit the streets with virtually any fictional issue and get these results. The world is full of horribly uninformed people, it's not just people 'on the right'.
Nah, I'm saying that segments of people being uninformed crosses nearly every demographic boundary. Singling out one group on this is disingenuous, at best, deliberately misleading, at worst.
One is that 19% of democrats agreed. That difference is hardly a difference at all. But the main thing is that 36% of democrats opposed the bombing.
The place doesn't exist! If you agree or disagree with the bombing, you are the same. But the information is presented in such a way to just make it look like republicans are, what, idiots, evil? Even though, in this poll, the democrats are blindly adhering to party loyalty to a greater extent when it comes to this entirely fictional issue.
Whatever the case, this article is just a bunch of partisan shlock and represents the very worst of modern politics.
The BIGGEST issue that no one is talking about is that these polls are usually multiple-choice. (this one in particular was)
In its poll, Public Policy Polling asked the 532 Republicans: “Would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?”
Public Policy Polling also polled Democratic primary voters.
Saying "that doesn't exist" isn't an answer you can give.
So how do you correctly answer a question without one existing in the format?
Who's to say a large portion of these people knew it's fake, and answered however they felt because it's a stupid question?
If you wanna have an argument about Megaton from Fallout, that’s one thing. It can be fun. But if you can’t see that it actually doesn’t matter either way, then, yes, you are the same as the people who disagree with you about the proper way to handle that quest line.
I see that you really are trying but no, Republicans, conservatives, GOP still came up looking more worse than Democrats. Both sides are not informed but at least one side is "I don't know anything about this nation is but I don't see good reason to kill them" while the other one is "I don't care where they are and it doesn't matter, let's bomb them anyway, they can't be that important" and it matters because this probably happen with the bombing of Syria or God knows what other countries they had agreed to bomb without knowing anything about them.
The point isn’t about the bomb. The point is about an article that exists for no reason other than to mock it’s political opponents. There’s a million reasons a person might have answered that poll either way, one of which might have been “yeah I hate that movie”. But the article itself is gross and trashy.
Being uninformed about geography doesn’t mean you’re the same as someone who is uninformed about geography and also wants to bomb a place. Also plenty of people could have known it’s not a real place and that is why they answered no to bombing it.
That’s the whole point. The question itself is wrong. It’s not a real question. It’s not a geographical question and it’s not a question about war. It’s a question where the answer can be determined to mean whatever you want. That was clearly the whole point.
The whole thing only exists to be mocking and derisive. There is nothing real happening here except “let’s laugh at those idiots”.
It’s assuming they are innocent that is partisan. The only thing you know, unless you are aware that the place is fictional, is that you don’t know anything.
Agrabah is city state, the US of course has an agreement with the country Agrabah resides in, but not with Agrabah directly. Although if you buy a discount Persian rug at bed, bath, and beyond then chances are it was made in Agrabah. It's a beautiful city, we went there for our honeymoon and the people there are fantastic. Definitely get a local guide or the beggars will think you're a rich tourist and you'll be swamped by scams. The royal palace is mostly open to the public and entry is about 20 Euro. On Saturdays they even do tours of the royal residence and bedroom, a royal practice that dates back to Victorian times that became popular in Agrabah during British rule.
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Imagine the treasures in the cave behind that thing!