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Mystery down votes are a common internet phenomenon that, despite knowing it's widespread, I've never quite been able to figure out. Accidental downvotes do happen, especially on mobile in my experience, but at nowhere near a frequent enough rate to explain down votes in the wild. In this case, there's many possibilities! Are the downvotes from MAGAssholes? Is someone just blanket down voting because they don't like the instance? Because they don't like the community? Because they don't like the user posting it? Because they don't like the BBC as a source? Because they downvote every US politics thing they come across? Who knows!
In this case, butthurt conservatives, it would seem.
Some people also just don't like meme type replies, or low-effort posts, or any number of things that might not be related to the content.
There are also mass downvoters, but people have a tendency to try to extract simple patterns out of a sea of different people doing different things.
Usually if I have had a disagreement with somebody, where my facts were correct, they are mad maybe, so then they go downvote my posts or comments as some weird retaliation
The person is complaining about rigged elections being fake news. Someone is going to be upset. Even if we see cycled parties, it isn't proof there hasn't been any trickery. In the US it would mean focusing on a specific battleground state.
Elon was heavily hinting at helping do funny shit, saying that Trump wouldn't have won without him. I've seen reports from staticians talking about oddness about the last one.
So yeah I think there's plenty to disagree about, even if you're not MAGA.
I'm...confused. By "the person is complaining about rigged elections being fake news," do you mean the journalist who challenged Trump on his claim? The specific exchange as indicated in the article was:
I wouldn't call that complaining about the entire idea of rigged elections being fake news, but rather challenging Trump to provide evidence for his own claims of specific elections being rigged, which he insulted the journalist and then ended the interview over instead of defending his claims with evidence.