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I'm broadly leftist, generally anti-authoritarian, and pro-civil rights and liberties.

...Including the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms of their choosing.

Links to reddit

Slagging China, pointing out hydrogen vehicles are a stupid idea, lots of snide responses

If someone is downvoted, someone else comments and gets upvoted, and you reply to the upvoted comment to defend the downvoted comment, you will get downvoted. Probably 95% of the time. It doesn't matter how right they are, or how mistaken the upvoted one is.

Especially getting into an argument with the upvoted one and hanging onto the downvoted one's side.

Also, being downvoted is likely to get you downvoted more. That contributes to the above effect.

Without pre-existing up/downvotes, the best way to get downvoted is to be needlessly aggressive without being funny.

To get a downvote from me, just try to use "of" as a verb. (E.g., "would of")!

Anything that doesn't suck the dick of the gun lobby. Easily that. Second place isn't even close. Even just asking "how?" when they claim their guns are the solutions will get you downvoted. They'll ask questions and then downvote you for answering.

And of course, it's only in threads on gun violence (when they're doing damage control) or about marginalized groups (when they're drumming up sales). Make the same comments under a post they haven't thought to brigade and they won't be even slightly unpopular.

No one seems to know or care that "begging the question" means using circular logic and not that something has led to an event where people are begging to ask a question.

An example of properly begging the question could be, "does your mom know you're gay?" It's a yes or no question, but you can't answer it properly if you are straight. That's begging the question.

Whenever I point this out, I get down voted, which leads to the question: why y'all prefer being wrong?

Disagreeing with the consensus of the post and the comments. When the post has an agenda or a viewpoint that every comment so far heartily agrees with, I just move on and let the little echo chamber echo.

Being right 😂

I have no idea because I use browser tools to hide the element that shows vote scores. If people don't like what I have to say and want me to know about it they can take the time to write a response.

Point out tankies' abundant similarities to the pigs in Animal Farm.

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Easy one. Communism is the future of mankind, prove me wrong

Saying something that is insufficiently negative about Elon Musk. Or Mark Zuckerberg, he's another one on the "villain" list.

Pointing out casual misogyny/sexism, it's extremely common on Lemmy (not surprising when the platform mostly only appealed to nerdy young dudes up until recently)

Pretty much anything anti-American or pointing out hypocrisy of the West. And just like Reddit, it gets removed and silenced often. Or just downvoted to oblivion and then name calling.

Lemmy is very much like Reddit in the sense that it is "one of us... One of us.... One of us"

Siding with the police

Feminists's subjects,
Transgender's subjects,
Minority's subjects,
Leftists's subjects,

Yep, world is fucked.

Lemmy is more usable than kbin so when I moved, I found myself posting and commenting more. I think I've received at least one downvote every time I've done anything. 😆

I don't mind. If it can improve some poor sad shlub's day slightly, smack my downvote.

There are a lot of people who still think nuclear power is the answer to all our problems. It really doesn't matter if I produce facts and evidence to show renewables are way cheaper and quicker to build, these people continue to reflexively downvote.