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[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

COVID is no big deal but Communist Sewage Garlic is an immediate threat. I'm ashamed that this is one of my senators.

[–] 1847953620@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Based on your downvotes and consistent experience in other parts of Lemmy I'm starting to believe the average Lemmy user is bad at general reading comprehension

[–] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

99% of us are the detritus of Reddit that had the momentary good sense to bail early

[–] 1847953620@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The proportion of people who can't read between the lines and can't parse more than one logic-altering operator in a sentence is way too damn high! Like really off. Worse than reddit in that way, I hate to admit.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I used to be able to read between the lines but ever since I switched to dark mode it's been a struggle

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] 1847953620@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

when I posted that, the root comment was getting downvoted to hell, while all the other comments with the same position where getting a lot of upvotes

-all except for another root comment using clear sarcasm to express the same.

I've seen this far, far more frequently here on Lemmy than anywhere else on the internet. Maybe that person making statistical inferences that Lemmy might have a lot more autistic people relatively could be right.