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When i vote R, i didn't think voting for conservatism would conserve to a time before gay marriage (lemmy.world)

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What era in time do these people think R's are trying to conserve to, after or before civil rights?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Look at this guy botch numbered lists by missing the space. Is this a meta comment? 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I’d upvote that - why does markup need to be so complex and brittle?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I don't think writing lists & punctuation in the conventional way is expecting too much. No spaces after periods? Crazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That’s the problem, isn’t it: whose convention? It never works in the way I conventionally do ot, and takes way too much troubleshooting to make it work. I also have no idea how to do formatting other than lists so would have to look it up. There’s a reason most posts on Lemmy are unformatted, it’s too much effort to get it to work.

Before you say that’s a me problem: the list conventions I write with work fine everywhere else. Plus I haven’t had to look up formatting syntax since LaTEX