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I decided to do a test. This is the same news outlet as the article I posted yesterday, that one being critical of Trump. It was massively upvoted, lots of comments and conversation. Great!
Then there's this one. Similar topic, but not even criticizing Biden or Harris, the first line made that clear. But it's criticizing people at the DNC that were, as one major example, physically violent toward people holding a "Stop Arming Israel" sign. Horrible stuff, the guy should be arrested for assault.
And, what happens? No comments after half an hour and massively downvoted.
So, yeah, y'all fail the test. You're blatant hypocrites and it's sad.
Would you like some Trump cheese with that whine?
I am honored that you'd break your 2 week fast of commenting on anything to comment here.
You waited whole 30 minutes in the middle of the night to present your conclusion? Such research, much wow :D
It's the same time period that I posted yesterday's thread. It had 30+ upvotes and multiple comments within half an hour. I did expect this post to get less traction overall, but I wasn't expecting a combined lack of comments and massive down-voting.
Of course, considering the state of this group at the moment, with a bunch of threads posted trying to criticize any form of protest at the DNC, I suppose it's rather telling where posters here stand on any form of criticism of this sort, even if minor.
The Lemmy wokie 2030 agenda echo chamber doing it's things..
You, by default, support genocide since trump supports it.
Because the headline sounds like the DNC did something and your summary clarifies it was a couple assholes in the crowd.
Then the video shows the hits, and the top of those signs are flexible as hell. She doesn't even turn around or seem like it registers.
I'm pro Gaza as fuck, but you said you wanted to know why this is being down voted.
It's because even people that agree with you that stopping the genocide is important can see this is overblown.
Can't believe I'm agreeing with you, but yes, you're completely correct. OP is a fucking idiot.
CAuSe I dOnT sUpPoRtE gEnOcIdE! [spoken as if it’s strange to hate genocide]
Why do you genocide so much?
Genocide…
So, signs being flexible means attempts to get rid of and cover them don't matter? And hitting someone with a sign purposefully (two people really, since it also hits the woman next to her) is fine if you're unable to get leverage to hit harder? They're just playful taps, I suppose?
Pretty clear I'm not defending them ..
But the headline makes it seem like a violent assault, and frankly I don't think I ever want to see your comments anymore already
How does the headline seem like any form of assault? It doesn't even mention an assault. You have to read it to find out what it's referring to. And it's quite obvious from the first paragraph that the "worst way possible" is referring to people at the DNC trying to cover up and get rid of any form of opposing views.
Sounds more like you want to obfuscate, for some reason. Those "couple of assholes" should be called out, not glossed over.