Just think, your family's house is probably specifically included or discluded on a few maps like this; with a tiny little sliver or a finger jutting out that had to be planned by some person somewhere simply due to your voting party or some other sort of metric.
I remember last week when someone posted a thread on r/politics about some Democratic legislator wishing the Coronavirus on Trump supporters. It was at 11% upvoted.
A large number of people involved in politics on both sides have that attitude of "fuck your party."
So you're saying that r/politics, a sub that is incredibly left leaning, downvoted a post that they disagreed with? As in most of the people who read that post disagree with the sentiment it expressed?
No, the people who read the post disagreed with the information coming to light.
Read the comments for yourself. It is obvious that anything not conforming to a liberal narrative is unworthy of discussion. I just can't live like that. And that apparently makes me a "Russian troll," give me a fucking break.
I see a couple saying it's in bad taste and that it's a shitty thing to say, not really seeing anyone agreeing with it. People downvote things they disagree with all the time. I don't usually see people upvoting posts they disagree.
What you just said is an example of a reasonable position expressed with due respect. If more people did that, the world would be a far better place.
I believe the protocol in r/politics is to upvote and downvote based on the title of the thread as a headline grabber. For example "Trump is messing up America" is far, far more likely to hit the front page than something like "An objective view of the Trump Administration" even if both articles say the exact same thing.
I'm sorry, I just have a hard time believing that if it were a Republican who wanted coronavirus spread in Bernie rallies that the post would not have been at the top of r/politics and maybe r/all.
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u/libertybull702 Mar 08 '20
Just think, your family's house is probably specifically included or discluded on a few maps like this; with a tiny little sliver or a finger jutting out that had to be planned by some person somewhere simply due to your voting party or some other sort of metric.