This sounds familiar…

spez!!!

If you can find it (and if it even exists).

Do you mean to say… always have been?

I also tried to warn you too!

You were the one who brought up that comic, not me. Yes, it is rather silly, or I would say reductionistic.

But the aggressively ignorant and apathetic can fuck right off.

I’m not (fully) disagreeing with your statement here btw.

Though this one here again is too reductionistic:

Rejecting their message because they were mean is childish.

I am saying read up about how human psychology works. Let’s use a hypothetical: a single mother, widowed even, is trying to take care of multiple children, and on her way to work every single leftist that she knew irl punched her in the face every single day. On outcome is that she would probably be unlikely to desire to spend the time to even so much as read what leftist philosophy is all about, and therefore she would come away with a false impression of what it even meant.

Consider the case of Christianity: do those who e.g. interrupt funeral proceedings holding signs and yelling at the top of their lungs how “god hates f4*s!” provide an accurate portrayal of their supposedly central message of showing love to one another (gentleness, faithfulness, self control, and the like)?

Likewise communists punching out not actual Nazis but merely the stressed out and uninformed - particularly those less intellectually endowed - is not likely to win many converts to the cause. But that’s just my two cents.

While the phrase “death to <group>” is open to interpretation, believe it or not those that identify as <group> (e.g. Redditors) might have an opinion as well.

Echo chambers that deny facts in favor of their preferred view of reality? (e.g. that Ukraine is the aggressor rather than Russia) Check.

Tribal politicking, where facts chiefly matter depending on who is speaking them? Check.

Refusal to update one’s viewpoint after seeing incontrovertible evidence that would otherwise demand it, if someone’s goal was truth? Check.

Making use of every logical fallacy to sow FUD in their opponents? Check.

A better strategy might be to stop thinking of humans as “opponents” and rather than “beat them”, aid their thinking to enlighten and uplift them by knowledge, essentially turning an opponent into a true ally, as opposed to merely a worn down victim of bullying practices.

Moral purity beatings will continue until morale improves.

I mean, that argument seems a little… hyperbolic.

It is possible for people to disagree and not be dicks about it.

Now tankies would like to see the same happen in the USA… bc somehow in their fantasies the only other political system besides fascism is pure and perfect communism.

Edit: either that or else I should take them at their word that “death to the USA” is not merely symbolic but rather literal. I dunno, when someone tells you who they are, should you believe them the first time or not?

This is what the left refuses to understand: when you spit upon everyone who is even slightly less left than you, the recipients end up being driven rightward.

Example: Hexbear.net. Edit: actually, that’s a bad example since they aren’t truly “left”, just cosplaying as such while acting similar to MAGA, differing mainly in the words chosen yet similar in thinking processes, i.e. an echo chamber by a different name is still an echo chamber.

Yes! (/s ofc!)

This was before climate change. Nowadays the glasses are hot.