I suspect that there are people who make a habit of targeting particular “anti-tankie” or anti-troll users who are in a role of authority

Sure, those people probably exist, but also “anti-tankie” is an extremely common position so you’d expect there to be more “victims” if that is what they are being targeted for. It’s far more likely that PJ is instead just an insufferable person who makes bad posts and comments, and therefore there are many people that don’t like them. PJ hasn’t even been accused of transphobia or zionism in this thread, so I think your theory is pretty widely off mark.

but I suspect that the personal innuendos about PugJesus in this thread and their popularity in the voting mean that the overall bullying effort is working pretty well

Or, perhaps, they are just not liked for reasons other than politics.

You literally asked for our help though

Back again with the nonsense, begone troll.

Because you are a troll and I’m not engaging. You are clearly a very sad person desperate for interaction judging by how you are up and down this thread replying to people with debatebro nonsense. You are not worth the receipts.

silence troll, you are wrong again

If someone who doesn’t like metal music enters !metal@lemmy.world and downvotes every post there

See, that’s not what is happening, I’m not against the concept of the community, I think they are poor quality submissions for that community.

That’s pretty ridiculous, obviously one can want to see an uncurated list while still judging the value of individual items, that’s not mutually exclusive.

Your “contributions” to mass downvote every post in that community (as you seem to freely admit doing?)

No, I downvoted the 5-12 posts that were placed in front of me because they were submitted within hours of each other and therefore were shown sequentially.

The Threadiverse needs MOAR content, not less

Disagree, it needs better content, not more. You can upvote every post if you want, no one else is obliged to.

If not troll, then why behave like troll? Well, now you know.

Voting on content is not trolling, it is a base mechanic of the platform. Are you trolling? You sure seem to be behaving like it

Also, you lied. You were corrected that “my frontpage” (emphasis my own) is NOT the same thing as the “All” feed

Yes, I addressed that, and that’s not lying either way.

(Edit: you also seemed to attempt a deliberate spread of misinformation by stating how you did not post or comment, while ignoring your mass contributions across many existing posts by other people.)

Voting is not posting or commenting.

Seems like you think any opinion you don’t like is a lie or a troll, trolling confirmed. Now you know 🥴

I’m not, I was viewing all. Sorry, “my frontpage” is probably misleading, I meant the all page on my device.

I do, but I also like going on all to see what is out there. Unfortunately it can get buried when the same person is spamming a dozen submissions in a couple hours.

The same argument applies in every other voting system

It literally does not, there are ranked voting and instant runoff systems where it doesn’t apply.

Because the current system is setup to exclude third party voters, mathematically the FPTP system will result in a two party duopoly. And we’ve seen time and time again that the spoiler effect reduces votes to the party more similar to the third party.

So yeah, unless you get all the people to dedicate to a third party blowout, it is a waste. If an incumbent president didn’t have enough influence to break the duopoly by going third party, do you really think it’s ever going to happen? Particularly without a huge movement of said third party?

Pragmatically speaking, voting third party only serves to help the people you disagree with more.

Yes I am

The fact that you believe any candidate is an equal gamble

Stopped reading, didn’t say that. Have a good day, or don’t, whatever.

You realize that no matter what you say, running a female for president is a gamble.

Running anyone is a gamble, there are no guaranteed wins.

You are openly admitting you are willing to gamble what’s left of our democracy at a critical juncture in American history.

I said no such thing, you don’t even know my opinion. Arguing with someone in your head is certainly very bright though, no notes.

Both female candidates who lost were INSANELY more qualified than felon, rapist, pedophile Donald Trump.

Qualifications aren’t how presidential elections in our country are won. You can stop talking about it, because it’s a moot point.

Am I still gonna watch the porn. Well yeah, probably

You’re the problem then, stop giving those videos views.