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Post anything that involves China. A Chinese word. Chinese food. Chinese culture. Chinese clothing. Chinese history. Hell, even having Chinese in your user ID. That is almost guaranteed to get a downvote or two within minutes. Like to the point of getting downvotes in a group dedicated to talking about snack foods when you show street food (you know, snack food) in China. It's incredibly funny watching those knees jerk around spasmodically.
Post anything critical of how the western (chiefly American) left does things, despite the obvious complete abject failure of said left in the past decade or so. (I mean really: Brexit. TWO Trump terms. The rise of populist authoritarianism all over Europe and the Americas. How can you not see this as abject failure!?)
Point out how stupidly ineffective (and indeed maladaptive) voting-driven sites like Reddit and Lemmy really are.
Even in "leftist" Lemmy, pointing out that capitalism is mid-collapse will garner you at least a handful of downvotes.
Be a woman who doesn't defer to a man.
Be nonwhite not deferring to white folk.
And voila downvotes. Proving you right
I expect them these days. Kneejerks from jerks are what downvotes are all about anywhere that has them.
The downvotes are a massive compliment IMO
They're also very revealing of typical online forum reading levels, considering that I've been more than clear a few times now that I don't even see them unless someone tells me about them. 🤣 The poor little dears can't help themselves, bless their little ineffectual, pathetic hearts.
I'm now imagining them stamping their feet in anger and shouting at the monitor that I should respect their authoritay. In the Cartman voice because they always look like Cartman to me in my mind's eye.