It's not about "there's no point discussing opposition because there won't be an election anyway," it's about "don't wait until 2028 to act and hope on voting your way out of fascism."
It was the MAGAts that stormed the capital because Trump told them to. If Daddy Trump tells them the elections need to be cancelled these people will be storming blue states that try to have elections.
If only blue states have elections then the Republicans can't lose any seats.
if others click the downvote button on my posts/comments, nothing happens at all as far as I know.
I think it shares the downvotes within that instance (possibly with other instances that allow downvoting) so anyone else viewing the post from the same instance as the user who downvoted will still see it and their browser will use that when sorting the posts.
Sometimes I miss old forums where content was brought back up by simply posting within the topic
That's how forums on Steam work and it makes them almost useless. The only posts you see are the rage bait from people farming Steam points from 'Clown' awards.
Any meaningful post doesn't get the same engagement as people trying to 'slam the trolls into submission' (FFS, how do people still not know you don't feed the trolls?) so it gets pushed under all the bullshit.
Lemmy's system is good because there is no account wide total, so it really doesn't matter if one of your posts gets a lot of upvotes and another gets a lot of downvotes, it just means one was good and other wasn't.
... And then you get people who really want some kind of account wide total for some reason so they go to websites that total up the number of times a user has given upvotes and downvotes...
It's not about "there's no point discussing opposition because there won't be an election anyway," it's about "don't wait until 2028 to act and hope on voting your way out of fascism."