I've been seeing a worrying number of these people on Lemmy lately, sharing enlightened takes including but not limited to "voting for Biden is tantamount to fascism" and "the concept of an assigned gender, or even an assigned name, at birth is transphobic" and none of them seem to be interested in reading more than the first sentence of any of my comments before writing a reply.
More often than not they reply with a concern I addressed in the comment they're replying to, without any explanation of why my argument was invalid. Some of them cannot even state their own position, instead simply repeatedly calling mine oppressive in some way.
It occurred to me just now that these interactions reminded me of nothing so much as an evangelical Christian I got into an argument with on Matrix a while ago, in which I met him 95% of the way, conceded that God might well be real and that being trans was sinful and tried to convince him not to tell that to every trans person he passed, and failed. I am 100% convinced he was trolling -- in retrospect I'm pretty sure I could've built a municipal transport system by letting people ride on top of his goalposts (that's what I get for picking a fight with a Christian at 2AM) -- and the only reason I'm not convinced these leftists on Lemmy are trolls is the sheer fucking number of them.
I made this post and what felt like half the responses fell into this category. Am I going insane?
Great example of neoliberalism...
Try to act like the only thing that matters is extreme social views on either side to distract from what happens when the only two major parties are "fiscally conservative".
That's the whole point, the rich buying both parties and starting culture wars so no one pays attention to what the rich want.
Sorry, but isn't that exactly what centrism as I described is against? The extreme viewpoints of either side. And what's in the middle? Typically moderate politicians like Biden who are ostensibly on "the left" but only insofar as the politicians on "the right" are batshit fascists.
But the "enlightened centrists" crowd act like centrism is the point between Biden and Trump. Biden is the goddamn centre point.
Biden is only "the centre point" if one end is trump and the other is the bare minimum you want from a president.
He's not even the middle between what people actually want and trump.
The only people who say online that Biden has been a bad president are right-wing trolls and Russian propagandists, or those who have believed the crap they spew.
Remember when the left was screaming at Biden to forgive student debt and then he... started doing exactly that? How far back have you had to move those goal posts in the last four years?
Why would Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists be "happy" with Biden and believe him to be a good president when Biden is a firm Liberal Capitalist, which stands against what Leftists stand for?
And here, children, is one of those Russian propagandists, or "tankies." Easily identifiable by their .ml instance.
In what way? If we had a socialist president, I wouldn't expect right wingers to be happy either.
I genuinely don't get where you think I am doing Russian propaganda, considering Russia is a bourgeois dictatorship and not a beacon of leftism. I don't know where you get the idea that I am a tankie either for saying it makes sense that leftists don't agree with right wingers, just like right-wingers don't agree with leftists.
This is just slander.