• Affidavit@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Some people down vote popular things because they are popular.

        Didn’t downvote this myself, but I can understand why some people would. I have personally blocked numerous users and communities who post variations of the exact same post over and over and over again.

        There are only so many times I can read the same bloody thing about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Israel, and Linux.

        I agree. Trump/Musk/Netanyahu are arseholes. Linux is awesome. But I don’t bloody well want to read a variation of the same post every single time I access Lemmy.

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            3 months ago

            I love Summit for Lemmy, it has an option to group repost together so you don’t see too many repeating posts. It’s not perfect but keeps me from seeing the same post too many times.

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        3 months ago

        There are also quite a few “this isn’t helping, we need to focus seriously on…” people

      • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        An applicable grain of wisdom for anyone leaning to the first camp in this list:

        “Burying your head in the sand just makes it easier to kick you in the ass”

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      3 months ago

      I didn’t downvote but it’s low effort to invent Trump stupidity when there’s years of public statements of his stupidity to highlight.

    • belluck@lemm.ee
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      Merkel is pretty unpopular among the German left. There’s a lot of things she did wrong, but the big one is that she was a big reason for why Germany was dependent on Russian Gas for heating and electricity until the next government cut off the pipelines after they invaded the Ukraine.

      Of course, there are also a lot of things she did right and she was probably a major factor in keeping Germany stable during the 16 years in which she was leading the country, but these kind of memes still seem a bit ignorant about her.

    • luce [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      some could view it as unfunny(personally i dislike the ‘grandmas facebook had a leftist baby with a political propaganda poster’-style posts but i cant downvote or see downvotes anyways, that aspect of reddit has always been anger inducing for me so im glad i don’t have access to it.) i dont see this meme as being bad though; air left my nose, dopamine pathways were activated.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      3 months ago

      I mean, it kind of has the vibe of Musk"s interview with a right wing leader where they claimed Hitler was a leftist.

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      3 months ago

      Sounds like a good reason to get rid of immigrants, just in case one of them is the next Hitler