• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      15 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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        14 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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          13 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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            12 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