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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.
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.
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.
My comment history says otherwise. I get downvoted whenever I remind people that the Democrats are guilty of genocide.
That's because you have to contort the truth significantly to make that even passably correct. It is more accurate to say the democrats aren't going to stop selling arms to Israel as very few if any are actively engaged in fighting in Palestine.
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:
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.
You stopped at the first downvoted comment that confirmed your bias. Also what is your opposition to holding the Democratic Party accountable for genocide? They had 15 months to change course. They had the election cycle to get a hint and change their position. The DNC wouldn’t even allow a Palestinian American to speak at the convention. Trump and the Republicans being worse is never an excuse for genocide.
Here’s one: https://lemm.ee/post/53700851/17792640
Here’s another: https://lemm.ee/post/52746433/17573189
Another one: https://lemm.ee/post/34065555/12436103
Any comment that points out that it was the Democratic Party that allowed the genocide to happen and created the conditions for Trump to propose ethnic cleansing got downvoted. The Democratic Party could have stopped the genocide, they purposefully chose not to. You should oppose them for this not make excuses because the Republicans are going to be worse.
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.
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.