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?
Going to need to see some honest arguments for forcing people to house sexual predators... In fact I'm quite sure there's an amendment saying you can't be forced by the government to house anyone on your personal property (which I do think should be lessened, or we should have more Rights to passing by laws). Sounds like you're believing the progressive side is a very slippery slope.
It's for people who can't even imagine that unhoused people struggling with addiction could ever actually get help...
In their vision of the future those people stay on the street instead of getting help so they can stand in their own again. Even if they never can, them having their basic needs met makes it safer for everyone.
It's not that they intentionally are arguing in bad faith, it's just a total.lack.of empathy. They don't see those people as humans that need help. Homeless desperate people are a "thing" to them, not a bunch of individuals.
Imagine, we could have a better world if the capitalists would pay their fair share. If that happened, you wouldn’t need to argue!
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.
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.
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?
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.