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Unimportant
So if my motives are so lame as to be unimportant, then surely I don't have much influence over things. So I may as well just post what I want when I want. And you don't have to feel worried about any votes. And we can be friends now, right?!
I wasn't being insulting. It doesn't matter your motivation and the truth of that motivation is unknowable anyway.
I'm more annoyed that the politics feed is taken over with an outsized share of third party distraction news, when there is so much going on that's actually meaningful.
You think the share of third party news is "outsized" compared to all the pro-harris/pro-democrat articles?! I just post the articles that the news writes. So obviously news orgs think there is something to it since they are writing so many articles about third parties. I don't write them, I just post them.
If there were less written, there'd be less posted.
Yes. That's why I said it. Due largely to a single user; You.
There you go being transparently dishonest again. This is why we aren't friends.
Wow, I'm flattered that you feel I have so much influence!
How so?
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I don't know what that means.
Rabble dabble.
I don't know what that means.
Dizzy dazzle
I don't know what that means either. What's the context?
The context is that I got you to ask something rational. Now try again with a statement.
I don't know what you mean. Everything I've asked is rational. Just because YOU don't like it, doesn't mean it's not rational.
Actually, people like you inspired me to create an entirely new Lemmy community just now. You're really gonna hate it, but well, you convinced me. So thank you!