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?

  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    7 months ago

    But there are still police officers and defense workers under communism. The regimes that MLs so vehemently defend have plenty of these things.

    Everyone agrees that we should work towards a world where we don’t need such things, but the popular idea that this kind of thing is bad in the US, but good in China/Russia is blatant hypocrisy.

    • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
      11·
      7 months ago

      But there are still police officers and defense workers under communism. The regimes that MLs so vehemently defend have plenty of these things.

      I would say anarchists don’t support these things, and there are as many of them as there are MLs on here.

      Although it’s MLs building things like Unions that try to improve current society.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      12·
      7 months ago

      But there are still police officers and defense workers under communism.

      There is a fundamental difference between an agency that grew out of a local liberation effort and one that inherited the legacy of 19th century run away slave catchers.

      the popular idea that this kind of thing is bad in the US, but good in China/Russia is blatant hypocrisy.

      Consider the shocking rise in incarceration in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, the habit of cops living a city away driving in to police minority neighborhoods devoid of democratic governance, and the huge profit margins police privatization enjoys.

      The profit motive amplifies all the worst aspects of the police state