• JayTreeman@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    I’m unsure why I was down voted when your response backed me up. 44 years ago is pretty recent

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      3 months ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just linkerbaan and his ilk. You don’t deserve to be downvoted. My comment backed you up, but I thought of it more as larger context for modern purposes. 1 or 2 significant challenges 44 years ago, while recent, still shows how unusual it is. We’ve had a decent amount of incumbents since then not be challenged and we had a decent amount before then not really be challenged. It wasn’t a consistent thing, ya know.

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        3 months ago

        My instance doesn’t let me see who down voted. I used to be on kbin.social and it used to be nice to see both. Knowing a nazi sympathizer is down voting you is a badge of honor… anyways, I appreciate you putting out the data.

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          3 months ago

          Wait, there’s an instance that can show you who downvotes you? I didn’t know that existed. That’s pretty damn cool.

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      3 months ago

      I talk about political history from 24 years ago (Gore) and people ask “why are you going back so far?” So to most people 44 years is ancient history.