Isn't not voting something because there may be repercussions self censorship?
Hardly a trait we want to encourage in the hive, iyam.
But, certainly a valid opinion to hold, at the least in the past.

IF you support free speech, you have to upvote things that make you angry.
Things that say vile and nasty stuff about you.
Or, you simply don't support free speech.
You support speech that you agree with.
Which is also ok, just absent any claim to supporting free speech.

I'm glad that circumstance has brought you to my timeline, it was getting pretty boring hearing the same drum beat day after day.

After 7 years of mostly daily posting, I was starting to phone it in, and that was an acceptable stopping point for me.
Helped along by some proper downvotes that did have a point.

Perhaps we should start normalizing voting speech that we don't agree with?
And, not just that, but upvoting some things simply because it needed to be said and was brave to say it?

Just because I upvote something does not mean I agree with it, but that is a rare trait in the hive.

but I'll still argue with you all day long and I hope that is ok.

I'd be disappointed if you didn't.
I welcome dissent.
I know it may not ring true to your ears, but I have been wrong in the past, and if life hadn't explained the depth of my error to me in no uncertain terms, I would have likely ended up in a much less desirable place.