The worst part is that you can get targeted by advertisements recorded by the other partys phone. Once upon a time, before I started blocking spotify ads, the ads I got were always very generic (fast food, spotify premium, espresso house etc.), but one time after visiting my cousin and mentioning that I had a headache, I was bombarded with only ads for pain killers for the full three hour drive home the day after.
Okay, then elaborate please, what’s the situation like?
I’m just transposing what I know from Swedish politics, given that Germany also has municipal counties with a certain degree of input. In Sweden, the 2018-2022 government tried (and failed, due to legal problems) to overrule municipal councils where the Sweden Democrats were influencing their governing coalitions to refuse to receive asylum seekers, in some cases even paying other municipalities to receive them instead.
Hence that voting districts with high SD voter counts now have fewer migramts than other parts of the country.
The entire idea that the law is made by a judge interpreting the text rather than the intent when writing it is such bs. If a law is a problem, rewrite it, that’s why they’re called legislators!
This is Lemmy, not hexbear, beehaw or similar forums. I’ve had experience with other platforms removing “downvotes” (or their version of it). Sometimes it works, but oftentimes it doesn’t.
We can go a lot further into this discussion, but I’ll summarize my opinion as follows:
Neither having nor not having downvotes is “right”. They’re just different - and lead to different types of forums and discussions. I prefer the former, because in many topics that I want to discuss, they provide important feedback (both to me and others), even if you perceive that this feedback comes at a cost.
If you like, we can elaborate further, but I think it comes down to Beehaw ( & co.) and Lemmy being different platforms, which is a good thing. The world would be a very dreary place if everything was the same - and this is something that corporations are constantly pushing us towards.
Both up- and downvotes do have a significant function. I actually prefer the lemmy method where they are presented separately.
A simple example could be a post such as:
YSK: The world actually is flat
-contains link to some bogus videos and stuff
In a lemmy w/o downvotes, it could show as only (10 upvotes) until a mod gets around to removing it, whilst in one with downvotes this post would quickly accrue downvotes if it gained any amount of traction.
I used a simple example here, but my point is that the combination of up and downvotes provide an easy gauge of general sentiment towards the statement/comment/post.