I wonder if the half of America that voted for Trump or who secretly think what’s happening is right will ever even hear that the first casualties were almost 100 school children. We assume major news like that is widely reported, but American friends tell me their parents literally do not know

February 28, 2026 - 18:26 UTC

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They will not know.

The distribution of information here is very siloed - whether through legacy media, algorithmically driven social media platforms, or word-of-mouth via IRL social networks.

The consolidation of media by a small handful of MAGA friendly oligarchs makes this problem even worse.
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Even posting stories of importance on one's Facebook feed no longer has any impact.

At one time our feeds were filled w friends & family of diverse ideologies, but all sides have largely "unfriended" those of differing politics on social media.

Much envy & respect if things are different abroad.
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My conservative family members are so oblivious to the horrors. They get the news they want to get.
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Polite note: HALF of my country did NOT vote for Trump. ⅓ of our *voting-eligible* population did. About 70 million, which is far less than half of the US population. Another ⅓ voted against. ⅓ did not vote (their reasons are varied; they‘re not monolithic; attacking them does not get them to vote).
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They’re all watching state propaganda that refuses to ever criticize Trump. It’s an effective machine over 30 years in the making.
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Yep. A friend of mine in Hawaii just ran into exactly this. Got told, "it's all Fake News!".
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To be fair, US imperialism is not something unique to this administration. (Harris would have probably done the same to help out their Zionist friends.)
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They really don't. If they catch wind of it, they'll assume it is either entirely fabricated or misconstrued in some way.

That said, I want to push back a bit and remind everyone that Trump has never had "half of America" vote for him, not even half the voting-age population.
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It's important to remember that fascism does not have majority support and that fascism having power is due to institutional power designed to be anti-democratic (and due to resistance to institutional power being woefully underdeveloped, a cultural problem to solve).
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