• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I downvoted. Not because you criticized democrats, but because your stupid post says you get downvoted for that. No you fucking don’t. You almost always get up voted for it. This is a garbage bait post.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve got more that were closer to the election when the politics community was still delusional about Democrats winning by ignoring core voter demands.

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        Cool. No need to look further than this post though. It’s got positive votes despite implying it should be negative. It only takes one counter-example to prove the statement wrong. It doesn’t have to be true every time.

        Yeah, sometimes it’ll get downvoted, especially if you’re a dick about it. It’s not that surprising.

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        1 year ago

        I went digging through your comments a bit to see what you’re talking about, and no most are upvoted from what I saw. There are exceptions, like this one:

        I think teaching the Democrats a lesson was worth it. They can’t commit genocide and pretend to be the lesser-evil. You can and should oppose both. I am of the personal opinion that evil hiding behind polite decorum is a greater threat than evil that doesn’t pretend to be good. You are free to disagree.

        Yeah, no shit you get downvoted for stuff like this. People aren’t going to be very thankful you support their suffering being worsed. The people in Gaza also probably aren’t super happy that Trump has straight up supported the plan for genocide and taking the land.

        Being critical of Democrats gets upvotes. Being a callous asshole who says Democrats “learning a lesson” (which I haven’t seen any evidence for) is worth all the suffering the Trump adm. will cause will deservedly get you downvotes.

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            1 year ago

            I’m not going to spend all day going through your comments to prove a point.

            The first one is positive.

            The second is zero, so probably 1 downvoted, assuming you didn’t remove your default upvote. Not really meaningful. It’s also dismissive of Trump to shift to Biden, but whatever.

            The third if you notice the comment you replied to is positive and implying Biden supports genocide, so it once again proves that comments or posts that are critical of Biden or the Democrats generally get upvotes.

            You have a confirmation bias. You want it to be true that comments critical of democrats are downvoted, but it isn’t. Usually they’re received positively, as long as you aren’t being an asshole.

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              The first one is positive.

              Sure, after you count the 24 downvotes

              The second is zero, so probably 1 downvoted

              Nope, 3 to 3

              The third if you notice the comment you replied to is positive and implying Biden supports genocide

              yet another instance of being massively downvoted but ultimately positive by 2 to 3 points

              The only thing you’ve proven is that it is controversial enough for just as many people to upvote as have downvoted, your viewer just only shows the net result. Try viewing these in the browser for a more accurate assessment.