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It's sad that in a thread about the need to believe facts over lies, the one person who brings an actual well-sourced statistic is voted down. Maybe society re

• refulgentis 6y ago
  I think you might be catastrophizing, it's definitely positively voted now, a mere 2 hours later. In the short term, votes are a Brownian process :) Edit: this post itself has swung between 3 and -1 over just an hour!
  • gabereiser 6y ago
    People are downvoting against their beliefs instead of for the guidelines of discussion. It’s a hot (headed) topic.
    • dragonwriter 6y ago
      The parent post violates the guidelot in two ways, violating both the rule against commenting on downvotes and the rule about assuming good faith.
    • Noos 6y ago
      there is very litle discussion here any more; its pretty much tribalism by people who aren't honest about being naked tribalists. The irony is that despite the leftist ideas, the actual age is incredibly conformist and conservative; there is a conservative ideology and a conservative spirit, and its possible to be leftist and yet be hidebound or reactionary in terms of free speech or tolerance.