I have a prediction: Now that the USA people are waking up, the voting ratio on this comment (which wound up at currently a surprising-to-me 43:9 while most of them were asleep) will start to shift in the direction of many more downvotes, although it will continue to attract a trickle of upvotes.
Why is that, I wonder?
(I could try to disagree with the logic of saying “well now that we changed firefighters the amount of fire in the building is going down, BUT IT’S NOT OUT YET WTF ISN’T THAT CONVENIENT WHY DID WE EVEN BRING THESE GUYS INSTEAD OF THE GUYS WHO JUST START MORE FIRES,” but I think looking into why this has such an unnatural pattern of voting is a little more interesting.)
Why do more than you need to occupy the seat that gives you the power to assign taxpayer money to people and projects you prefer?
Just being marginally better than the other scum isn’t going to cut it anymore, as evidenced by all the local and state governments that are making moves regardless of what the feds are doing.
To be fair it’s not like this administration has done nothing of value, but many of the processes that have begun have yet to bear fruit like the discussions around Right to Repair, unionization, and breaking up the monopolies and oligopolies. Actually follow through with some of that, get a few wins, and then you can claim to be the virtuous ones.
I have a prediction: Now that the USA people are waking up, the voting ratio on this comment (which wound up at currently a surprising-to-me 43:9 while most of them were asleep) will start to shift in the direction of many more downvotes, although it will continue to attract a trickle of upvotes.
Why is that, I wonder?
(I could try to disagree with the logic of saying “well now that we changed firefighters the amount of fire in the building is going down, BUT IT’S NOT OUT YET WTF ISN’T THAT CONVENIENT WHY DID WE EVEN BRING THESE GUYS INSTEAD OF THE GUYS WHO JUST START MORE FIRES,” but I think looking into why this has such an unnatural pattern of voting is a little more interesting.)
My controversial comments tend to follow this pattern as well. Initial upvotes, followed by a flood of downvotes and a trickle of upvotes.
This is why it’s important to use a lemmy client that shows both ups and downs, not just the total.
When a comment goes deep into the negative in total score, it can seem like nobody got reached.
Why do more than you need to occupy the seat that gives you the power to assign taxpayer money to people and projects you prefer?
Just being marginally better than the other scum isn’t going to cut it anymore, as evidenced by all the local and state governments that are making moves regardless of what the feds are doing.
To be fair it’s not like this administration has done nothing of value, but many of the processes that have begun have yet to bear fruit like the discussions around Right to Repair, unionization, and breaking up the monopolies and oligopolies. Actually follow through with some of that, get a few wins, and then you can claim to be the virtuous ones.