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Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.