• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    … Is this a joke?

    • California
    • Oregon
    • New Mexico
    • Washington
    • Colorado
    • Illinois
    • Vermont (preempting “but the governor!!” by saying you know you’re arguing in bad faith if you think he’s not a bizarre exception)
    • New York
    • Massachussetts
    • Rhode Island
    • Connecticut
    • New Jersey
    • Maryland
    • Delaware
    • Hawaii

    And some of those like New Mexico I wouldn’t even call “solid blue”. Dude, you can still be proud of your state and acknowledge reality.

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      22 hours ago

      Funny that NJ is often called a purple state (for a few very good reasons) but the state legislature is basically 2:1 democrat to Republican

      I’m not sure how you’re getting downvoted, I think people are just determined to be wrong

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        22 hours ago

        Sometimes when I get upvoted on here (and got upvoted back on Reddit), I feel compelled to ask myself if it’s because I’ve made a cogent point or if it’s because I said something that people want to be true authoritatively enough and got lucky with the upvote ratio early on. It’s frustrating sometimes, and I don’t really know what to do about it.

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          20 hours ago

          I miss forums and such where votes didn’t exist and you simply commented or not

          But I do understand how when too many people begin using the thing votes clear up a lot the message boards that would otherwise just be agreement and whatnot

          To your point: it’s always a new and random mix of both making a good point and saying what people want to hear. Just gotta not really care