Its worse in pockets (and I mean pockets large enough relatively speaking that you wouldn't need to be part of specific groups to be there) because there are a lot of culty ingroups who almost seem focused on trying to be as hard to speak to as possible.

Like they are trying to convince you by bashing you with a hammer, spewing pages of rhetoric at you in a bad faith attempt to make their arguments appear to have merit.

Its especially true regarding the types of """leftists""" who are so """left""" that they actively are against any incremental changes that bring about positive change, and are only for fictional masturbatory ideas of instant revolution.

I know that sounds specific to politics, but believe me, it isn't on lemmy. It creeps everywhere and you'll see pockets of these people.

I half want to feel like this is astroturfing backed by billionaires to make taxing them more seem less palatable to passerby's.