See somebody on Mastodon complaining about "Putinists" attending a rally for solidarity with Palestine, "How do they decide which occupations they're for and against?" (hexbear.net)

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The party he's talking about, which split off from the Red Party over Ukraine, states in its own words,

Norwegian weapons in Ukraine contribute to lengthening the suffering by delaying necessary peace negotiations. Peace and Justice wants to spend the 180 billion kroner that the parties in parliament want to spend on continuing the war in Ukraine, on improving people's lives rather than taking more of them. The war began due to NATO's goal of incorporating Ukraine as a member, and can be stopped by abandoning this goal.

"Putinists."

Check the Mastodon user's bio,

[...] Green Party. [...] Library socialist.

Welp, guess it figures that this is the type of person who can somehow reconcile an ideology he probably only heard about from a YouTube video by a certain Trinidadian fellow, with being a member of a green capitalist party that wants Norway to join the EU (for the sake of green capitalists' profit).

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[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

Honestly, like I am being kind of harsh to this anonymous Mastodon user, but I do genuinely like the idea of library socialism and, alas, I was introduced to it through Andrewism — I just didn't remember that Andrewism cited Srsly Wrong or that Srsly Wrong was even a thing.

So I guess it's just the conjunction of this Mastodon user being a library socialist and a member of the Green Party that strikes me as the "gets his politics from YouTube videos, doesn't investigate deeper and doesn't really reflect on how he actually engages in politics IRL" type — a bit like the handful of self-described anarchists I've met IRL who have joined parliamentary political parties despite the anarchist conventional wisdom on electoralism. Leftism as "kulture" as I like to call it.