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After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit

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[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol, you know this server is hosted in Europe right? We’re not in Kansas bruv

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How does that make what they said any less true?

[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn’t, but I’d guess that there’s a heavy European bias in the server.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

So everyone is down voting them because they're not from around here, even though what they said was right?

Hmm

[–] spiderman@ani.social 3 points 2 years ago

nope, it's because they disagree with them? i am not from Europe but i disagree with them.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No it's because judging a country the physical size of Europe with nearly 400 million people by one small section of a trashy area is a little weird.

[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah, maybe? Humans do tend to do dumb things because other people are doing it. Mob mentality is one version of it. I’m sure seeing other people downvoted could trigger others to see the negative first, therefore downvote.

Not to mention sheer numbers. Like, the higher EU user numbers are, the more people you might find that would defend EU & see USA more critically than Americans would. Just like in an American user heavy server, you might expect to find more users that would start defending USA & lashing out at other countries.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It can't It would have had to have been true in the first place to be any less true. Being false you cannot be any less true no matter how bad the falsehood was.