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?

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    You can’t actually argue against them being Socialist

    I don’t need to argue against China being socialist, I just need to laugh every time you suggest such a ridiculous thing.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
      1·
      8 months ago

      70% of China’s top 500 companies are state-owned, they have democratic measures in place in the workplace, and have maintained strong state influence over their Bourgeois class, not the other way around. It cannot be considered pure Socialism just like nothing can be considered pure Capitalism, so trends must be observed and recorded. You claimed Cuba to be Socialist, or at least arguably so, correct? Here is a conversation where Castro argues that China is indeed Socialist.

      If all you do is laugh, you’ll be left behind, having contributed nothing.