People don’t upvote. You’re more likely to be criticized for a position than engaged with. Opinions that disagree with the hive mind are often quickly downvoted regardless of whether or not the position has validity.

i experience this constantly on lemmy.

deal with the misinformation in your community

this is a great gimmick for poker players. show it of to a couple buddies so when someone calls you out for double dealing and wearing a shiner, one of them can stick up for you and say you just have a limp dick.

capitalism superceded mercantilism about 2 centuries ago. it's nowhere near as old as currency

communism is a wishful thinking pipe dream that turns into authoritarianism every time.

except every time it hasn't

except all the ones you are ignoring

I expect to have more options on my ballot than that

the didn't say they're the same

!modabuse

the analysis shows perot damaged Clinton's margin of victory.

that isn't part of how mussolini defined it.

you’re either aware of the problem and want to encourage people to vote third party while pretending not to know how the system works or you’re actually just ignorant to the issu

false dichotomy