The amount of sealioning and goalpost moving I see is incredible. I’m happy the mods seem generally good about it in most of the lemmy instances I participate in, but holy crap some people need to have their keyboard thrown out or their fingers broken occasionally to get the message.
You: Heh, <insert liberal> has a bad take on Palestine, so everything they say and do is worthless and tainted. Liberals don’t live in reality. The left is the right! Checkmate, fascist liberals.
Non-tankie leftists: gesturing at the active fires they are trying to handle, like protecting LGBTQ+, addressing the housing crisis, codifying abortion rights, and addressing climate change, while generally being for (at least) a ceasefire Suppose I should kill myself, or maybe you have an actual suggestion?
You: You support genocide!!! 😡😡💢😤
I’m so goddamn done. Y’all would cut your own nose off to spite your face.
Edit: Also, fuck Bill Maher, but this is fucking all that tankies seem to care about and they stroke themselves off because they think it’s makes them right.