Note that this account is meant to be specially prejudicial against instances, communities, users (even admins) who either don't seem to be acting in good faith or if they claim to do so while being inconsistent or applying a heavy dose of favoritism.
The determination is substance based and involves whether they are condoning harassment or making unevenly applied claims and accusations, not just downvotes.
This means I'm not ignoring them, just not even seeing them
The reason people are also having less children is precisely because of the way quality of life is tanking.People aren't suddenly less able to reproduce, they just don't want to go race to the bottom to have children. Rather than allowing societies time to adjust and compensate for these changes, people in their governments are forcing the race to the bottom.
The immigrants coming for these jobs are willing to drop their quality of life and make sacrifices like renting shared living spaces and having to work under worse conditions. Once we are at the bottom, the same problem will happen, just with lowered standards. This ends up making the "developing" countries balance out with the "developed" ones, which wouldn't be so bad if the politics didn't tank as a net loss. It's always requires more effort to to build up a healthy political environment than to take it down.
The "crisis", is that they all want cheaper workers, not that their particular workers aren't cheaper than their neighbors. It's a race to the bottom. If there's a shortage of workers, their wages rise, and people are interested in their jobs but then they would have to cut the profits.
Germany can and has attracted other EU citizens. They want cheaper. Butchers' shop and "critical skilled" are oxymorons. The Indians coming into Germany are working for the big shops and factories, not opening their own. It is a shift towards a migrant laborer based economies while those that own the actual assets get rich for relatively little effort, like with housing and the shift from owning to renting. The gap just keeps getting bigger.
Ok, but in that case, people are going to downvote on their opinion of what's wrong. Almost nobody is going to objectively check whether they are right about something being wrong, specially if they are the type to be wrong often. Your bar is too unrealistic for the average user.
Funny thing, after years of criticizing Starfield for poor quality, people suddenly begun to white knight about whether DLSS 5 was properly respecting Heller's intended rendition in Starfield. I'm sure they totally bothered to check the artist's or their player's opinion on it. To be honest, I'm sure they do care - some people only seem to find community in finding a shared hate.
Starfield patch coming up later this year. It'll remove some loading screens but generally won't change the game, yet to all the haters out there - sorry buds, gonna enjoy it!
Then the opinion is wrong, but it's still an opinion. You could probably very easily guile a small child into having such an opinion simply because they do not know better.
Ironically enough, the opinion that statements cannot be opinions if they are factually wrong, is what actually is just wrong.
In August 2025, Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the International Criminal Court, found himself locked out of the financial system and most online services. Why? Because the United States had placed him on a sanctions list that also includes al-Qaeda members, drug smugglers, and Vladimir Putin, simply because the court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Five other ICC judges and three prosecutors have also ended up on the sanctions list.
So ... the opposite of the title? Europe placed an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and it was the US who placed these sanctions ...
Jacques Baud, a former employee of the Swiss intelligence service, military analyst, and regular commentator on the international Russian news channel RT, ended up on a sanctions list due to alleged support for Putin, by which EU authorities mean his pro-Russian analyses of Western policy in the run-up to the war in Ukraine.
Ah, there it is.
Gonna have to take the objectivity of the article into question, although it does employ a lot of truths to try to reach the conclusion it wants to reach.
One remorseful witness – a former soldier who once sensationally claimed troops had captured an alien in Varginha – admits having spread fake news after being offered a bribe worth thousands of dollars. “There’s no such thing as the ET of Varginha,” he says, calling claims of a military cover-up “one of the biggest farces ever”.
An army investigation – published in full to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the sightings and rebuff allegations of a conspiracy – also concluded the story was a sham
The saga has been good business for Varginha.
As he sat in the shade of a spaceship-shaped bus stop, not far from Varginha’s rocket-shaped city hall,
This is not news. At best, this is a documentary if the people involved had access to some of the best and most modern videotaping equipment and yet couldn't get any clear high definition pictures to include anything about the thing they were reporting. If there were aliens, they would be laughing at how our species assumes they would be so alike to them morphologically and that for some reason they crossed a galaxy just to ape out on a planet.
It could also turn to other places in Europe for them. But that's the thing, isn't it, this isn't really about a shortage of workers, it's about not wanting to pay them more.
We were badly addressing it until today's world leaders decided to do a 180 and accelerate towards it. The good thing is that the efforts to prolong just themselves will also help them suffer the more for it.
AI is ignoring so many IP laws while the US government continues to push and collude with its cartels, all the while making sure the technology bubble is all AI and is all US centered. The EU certainly needs to do something, but I imagine many in the EU don't want to put their own IP at risk.
If you guys agree with both of these definitions, should you not ask or join a more apt community where it is in the rules instead of where the rules say otherwise? Seems easy to add on.
Yet you haven't posted even once. Are you so sure your experience, worries, and interest as the same as a person considering to post? My take on the people who post the most on Lemmy is pretty close to what it is in Reddit.
Funny thing, there seems to have been a multimillion industry built on caring about upvotes on the platforms people tell me it doesn't matter. I agree with you, but largely because of the temporal irrelevance of Lemmy at the moment. There are plenty of accounts who have months in between comments and yet upvote or downvote regularly, so I can only assume it matters to them. Thank you, I try not to fall into the rot of popularisms.
That's a nice take, but it feels like someone is heading to a trap to be on the stage for mockery - "WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME? IM RIGHT" . People who want that should find a community specifically related to supporting their beliefs, and usually can.
I think that people who post in Unpopular Opinions do so to get the sense "Ok, here is my opinion, but we can all respect each other even though I have it". Also applies to your examples. Would someone who posted "sandals are cute" not get downvoted if the circlejerk against it wasn't big enough?
If my take on what it should be is right, it's also a litmus test for how accepting the community is - imagine a post "Hitler was a great guy and did nothing wrong.“ except all the comments just basically say "That's unpopular, it is right to be unpopular, and you may be getting caught in bubbles of propaganda that don't allow you to see it because of reasons xyz". You get to correctly identify a Hitler supported, you correctly identify just about the most unpopular opinion you can have, and you also have direct communication to tell off the guy. I suppose that also makes this community a litmus test on Lemmy and how the community is like.
Sounds like you are just twisting the definition of opinion to justify this behavior. Objectively, it is independent of actual objective fact, it is by it's very nature the complete opposite, subjective. A child can have the opinion that Santa Claus exists a Christian can have the opinion that god exists, an investor can have an opinion of future events that cannot possibly be related to objective truth yet. Words can have multiple meanings, but even ignoring the ones that agree with me, I can't find any that agree with yours except yours.
If that's what you are doing, then I have more respect for the people who go "lol lets see what opinion they post now", if only because one has more a shared reality to it.
Your argument only apply to downvotes - I'm curious, any opinion about the upvotes of unconventional but otherwise popular opinions?
The reason people are also having less children is precisely because of the way quality of life is tanking.People aren't suddenly less able to reproduce, they just don't want to go race to the bottom to have children. Rather than allowing societies time to adjust and compensate for these changes, people in their governments are forcing the race to the bottom.
The immigrants coming for these jobs are willing to drop their quality of life and make sacrifices like renting shared living spaces and having to work under worse conditions. Once we are at the bottom, the same problem will happen, just with lowered standards. This ends up making the "developing" countries balance out with the "developed" ones, which wouldn't be so bad if the politics didn't tank as a net loss. It's always requires more effort to to build up a healthy political environment than to take it down.