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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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crashing out while no one is talking to you is so funny
It's a fundemental aspect of the medium, though. A bit of a stretch to call people cowards for interacting in the way the platform was designed around.
Reading comprehension is not your strong suit i take it….
Solely ‘downvoting’ with no expressed reasoning besides presumably being butthurt and as one person said ‘because it’s presented wrong’ is coward like. It was designed around comments, the vote system is one aspect and the least important one that, i don’t think you know what ‘fundamental’ means.
But, if it's not important, why are you so sensitive to it?
Sensitive? It was a passing remark used to segway into the actual point lol however, you can’t seem to get over it
I confess, I shouldn't have used the less common meaning. "[...] why are you so aware of it?" would have been a more accessible phrasing. Why is it important to you?
That doesn’t change anything… but since my comments going to be arbitrarily removed then this i pointless anyway. Besides that you’re just going to keep being indirect just to waste time and dissolve the thread. Its not more important than the content, but it’s a good metric for gauging the audience
(I can't speak to the actions of the moderators, alas.)
Indirect discussion is usually the best way to approach a complex topic. Or a language in general, really. It's the foundation of... well, rhetoric. It's been a fascinating topic of discussion for (at least) 2000 years, if you're at all interested in engaging with it.
Downvotes are a modern implementation of a truly ancient concept here. It's a pretty critical aspect of the comment system, or participatory discussion in general.
I mean sure, he's not referring to the number of upvotes and downvotes, but if any human being in history understood the role of the audience surely it was Shakespeare. "The audience can't exist without the subject, but neither can the subject have import without the audience" and all that. It really is a fundamental aspect of human interaction, not just internet forums.
You should know i literally said “this dudes about to pull up a shakespear filibuster” and sure enough
Im honestly glad i never went to college
Buddy the last time I read Julius Caesar was middleschool, I think a lack of familiarity has lead to faulty estimation of the relative complexity of the topics being discussed here.
Its actually pretty simple shit actually
Don’t vote(invest in) for genocide. Red or blue version… or yellow
create a new system that is not dependent on genocide/colonialism/capital accumulation etc. And divest from the old system.
don’t blame victims of systematic violence for being systematically violated for not being systematically violated properly
It's a bit more of a reduction than needed really, but I'm glad you can see how much better your point is communicated when you're not defending yourself by dismissing your critics!
(FWIW I do in fact agree with you.)
You are complicit, by your own logic.
Uhhh yeah…. We all are in more indirect ways, like in taxes and the products we support and use, which makes this look even more absurd to try and pass yourself off as innocent. Though some are more complicit than others…Some like to double down on it
The only tears here are from rolling our eyes too hard. You're being downvoted not based on the merit of the arguments you bring, but on how you present them.
Why would someone choose to interact with you to discuss the issue, rather than the dozens of folks in here saying the same thing but in a less tedious way? You bring nothing novel except perplexingly bad bait. Thats the whole point here.
(I think you replied to the wrong comment here)
Nope
Double post then, maybe? It really doesn't make much sense contextually.
~~It is beautiful that you insta downvoted my response here. True chef's kiss moment.~~
Seriously though, if you can't recognize a rhetorical question why do you feel that your opinions on geopolitics are worth engaging with?
Err.... Not not directly for, I admit, but I do work with the state dept on occasion. There's a whole bunch of us in here, in fact. Decentralized platforms are extremely popular with policy-adjacent techies, I wonder why. But that's really neither here nor there, because critically I'm not presenting my geopolitical opinions here, but you sure are. And in nearly the same breath you do that, you criticize OP as fodder for the "objectively stupid" but elsewhere reject the very notion of criticism of your own opinions. I don't exactly need to cite the five canons (I'll save you the trouble) to highlight the flaws in your behavior here.
Seems like a conflict of interest…. I can see where you mastered the art of spin though
It was more like the opposite, if you remember the main point was that they simply downvoted without explanation, and no criticism has been directly to the content only aesthetic points. Not all opinions are equal…. Its less of an ‘opinion’ that if all those people voted for kamala she still would have lost, but a mathematical and cultural certainty. Keep blaming minorities though and keep losing to trump and your red friends
YOU didn’t sell your team good enough, YOU didn’t offer shit besides literally threats of worse violence. YOU are to blame for your own system that failed these people. YOU look in you own mirror…