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I think this is it. Although I've been downvoted many times on here

Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14430727

My response to "capitalism is terrorism" was "Go move to Cuba then".

I don't know if this exists in different cultures, but in Czechia we often respond to stupid things with something equally or more stupid to show we don't take it seriously.

It has 88 down votes.

Mine was saying that 15 is old enough to be aware of what's going on in the world regarding some UK teen that gave up UK citizenship to move to some place in the Middle East and wasn't allowed to come back. Or something along those lines.

It got -20.

Mine was: "I will make it my life's purpose to pay for a business class fight on a smartwatch, no scratch that, a smart ring, i will report back with further progress."

This was in relation to a post about how anything important or meaningful should be done on a large monitor and not a phone or otherwise.

It got 3 downvotes

I said switch owners have never played real games on a greentext that is no longer available because it was hosted on kbin

Probably when I debated with some kids that thought capitalism is the root cause of loneliness. My point was that loneliness was a condition of being alive- not a result of a system of government. Besides… There’s loneliness in communist countries too. Safe to say capitalism cased that? Shit… Even animals get lonely. I’m pretty sure animals don’t really have a concept of the inner workings of capitalism. And even if there is an anecdotal instance or two- it’s still a dumb thing to hang on capitalism.

There’s enough real shit you can pin on capitalism to argue its ineffectiveness. But loneliness?

Jokes on them lemmynsfw doesn't federate downvotes... So probably this one.

When I said that weed isn't harmless. I didn't say it should be criminal. I just don't like people pretending it has no downsides.

It was a post about how Google had been asked to take down links to websites selling black market hormonal transition drugs and I suggested that no one should be buy them from shady sources like that in the first place as those compounds are important enough to not just buy whatever you can find as a personal attempt to fix body dysphoria.
People just wanted to be upset.

Though I have also been recently banned from upliftingnews for not being uplifted enough about basic stuff and had a mod tell me I don't belong in their communities so I'm surprised anyone agrees with me ever apparently.

When I made a troll post about 09.11 and wine 9.11 release.

Something like: "wine 9.11 has landed" + some wtc attack picture with wine logo on it.

edit: And there was a reply to a comment about how the chinese communist army is the most peaceful and just army in the world. I just shared a picture of the Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man.' I got banned on lemmy.ml and downvoted to oblivion.

Ok, I have to take issue with this. I will never be an apple user, but until USB-C came out I was honestly jealous of the lightning cable. It is reversible and consistent, two things other phone chargers never were. Sure, for data transfer it's outdated as hell now, but it is still good enough for most uses

Edit: An actual ratio i earned (although not my most downvoted comment) was from telling someone that since the average lifespan of American men is 75, if you are over 37 that means you are middle-aged "if you like words to mean things"

A question about if the voting age should be lowered.

I said that it should be higher instead because teens are stupid. I was back then, and I was considered one of the smart kids in school.

I got hated on 196 for my hated for furries. At least until the freaks banned me lol

I was on a Ford reddit forum. OP was pissed that their timing belt (chain?) broke, and was convinced that the repair shop she had previously went to had sabotaged her motor. I commented that these things do in fact break, and that the shop might not have been the culprit. Holy Downvotes Batman.

I was third in a chain of "Nice"s. I think about my crimes every day.

My worst one was expressing doubt about all information we get regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict because it is definitely being used as a wedge to divide Americans and make us easier to manipulate. Context: the IDF found Super Evil Battle Plans on dead Hamas soldiers, instructing them to kill civilians. Because they need to be reminded that that's their mission I guess.

My second worst one was saying that we shouldn't euthanize every pit bull. Context: a pit bull attacked someone, and everyone in the thread thought the right move was to euthanize the whole breed.

My third worst one was saying that the Fahrenheit temperature scale is more useful for average people than Celsius. Context: shitpost about fahrenheit being a bad temperature scale

I once made fun of someone on hexbear for denying genocide. A few days later, all of my recent comments had exactly the same number of downvotes, somewhere in the ballpark of 20, all across different communities. Whichever one of those comments received the least upvotes is my personal winner.

As an added bonus, this was after hexbear disabled downvotes, so they had to either pay for bots or run bots on an instance other than hexbear to pull that off.

Edit: Looks like a tankie read this and decided the appropriate response was to go to my profile and comment unhinged replies on all my recent comments. Thanks mods for cleaning them up so quickly.

I made a comment about proton VPN being a L data miner and now we see the CEO bootlicking trump. Funny how that turned out

I suggested that good music comes from republican administrations without clarifying that I was thinking about bands like Rage Against The Machine, System Of A Down, Dead Kennedys, etc.

Had to go and look. (don't really pay attention to these things normally)

Wooow, 180 seconds (which probably won’t even get to timeout) when shutting down my computer. My life is ruined forever because I had to wait sooooo much. /sarc

Me dissing yet another "SYSTEMD TAKES TOO LONG TO SHUT DOWN >:(((((((" whinememe on a Linuxmemes community.

I stand by what I said. If waiting 2 minutes for your computer to shut down is so life-ruining for you, you probably don't even know what a real problem smells like & should probably see a therapist about your lack of basic patience and frustration tolerance

Probably one a few weeks ago where I said civilised people shouldn't condone murder even if the victim is a bad person.

My most downvoted posts here were agreeing with Hillary Clinton in an interview where she said in a personal interview, not a campaign event, that left wing voters need to "get over it" (infighting during election season) and support then-candidate Biden because we only get 2 choices and if we don't we'll end up stuck with another Trump term.

"We have no problem with trans people existing.

We just have problems with people making mockeries of trans people. No, your gender is not a dragon, and creating anthropomorphic animal characters is not a disorder, sexuality, or gender identity, even if you dress up as them or get off to porn of them.

You're why trans and disability rights are always going to be at a standstill. Whenever some stupid thing happens, like cat litter and dog beds in schools to accommodate furries, it's blamed on disabled and LGBT people, especially trans and nonbinary people, for existing.

You're why actual children being childish get abused into literally taking their lives, because you broadcast that role-playing as an animal or creating whimsical wacky characters are symptoms of autism instead of a child being a child. They end up in an ABA school that grooms them into believing constant reactive abuse is normal. They're never allowed anywhere outside of home, the short bus, and the school, because "if they acted like a dragon at a playground, they might actually believe they're a dragon and they need help". Then they end up mentally and physically ruined to the point of needing to live in a group home where they're further abused until they die of stress, a drug overdose by the staff to make them "convenient", or by their own hand. Because they liked dragons and pokemon a lot as a literal child.

You're part of the extremely vocal yet incredibly small minority of trans and disabled people that those in power, in charge of those communities' rights, look at and make decisions based on. You're why they get dehumanized and divided from society. You're why everyone else assumes everyone in these communities can't make rational decisions, and makes arbitrary - and usually unfair - decisions for them. You're why trans, nonbinary, and disabled voices are spoken over and ignored. You're why trans, nonbinary, and disabled people are treated like jokes.

We have a problem with the progress of our fight for transgender and disability rights being reversed because some internet users want clicks, clout, and imaginary points that will mean literally nothing in the next five years."

Guess the user and the instance, and who actually got downvoted and banned.

i once criticized Salvador Dali's artwork. turns out people really love that guy and i'm a moron

I know you're all going to have to get this out of your system, so go ahead. Mock the leftists who stubbornly refused to vote for Kamala. Assign the blame for fascism taking over on those who could not see past their principles to the bigger picture (at least, as you see it). Eventually, you're going to have to move on and acknowledge that the blame cannot fall solely on them.

I voted for Kamala Harris. I, like most of you, felt strongly that doing so was necessary to prevent a far worse outcome. In the short term. The truth is, those that you mock for failing to see what was so plain to you were looking past it to an even larger picture, and that is why they could not see the strategic necessity of their vote. Why they chose not to see it, just as many of you choose not to see something that is very plain to them, the inevitability of this outcome.

Kamala Harris began her campaign to thunderous applause from those who were hopeful that the Democratic Party was finally embracing progressive ideals, only to then abandon and insult those very same hopefuls while moving further to the right than even Biden dared go. Kamala Harris then also proceeded to approach the economically anxious right with the same limp-wristed and tired economic messaging that has consistently failed to address the concerns of the working class. She campaigned as a moderate old Republican, the very same that the Republican electorate abandoned in favor of Trump.

A large number of progressives and radical leftists saw this and surrendered. They sacrificed their hope for change and reform to preserve their principles, and embraced accelerationism where previously they resisted it. I felt what they felt but held onto hope not because I truly believed Kamala Harris would turn around, but because I feared that we were not ready. I voted for Kamala Harris because I wanted to buy just a little more time, but fascism is here now, and we've run out of time.

Accept responsibility, stop assigning blame, we can't afford to. Accept responsibility not because you are at fault, but because no one else will.

Roughly equal number of upvotes and downvotes on this one, commented on a thread in c/meanwhileongrad bashing some random tankies after the election for abstaining or voting 3rd party. I stand by it.

Context.