I’m not even convinced it’s even real leftists posting this stuff. It often seems like astroturfing. Not only would fake leftists possibly sway undecided voters, but they also tarnish any positivity the left deserves. Win-win for the right.

I’d like to think you’re right.

But I have heard borderline stuff like this in real life from people whom I know are solid progressives. (Admittedly, these are folks on my soccer team who are almost 2 decades younger than me. I can’t imagine what ending their teens during a pandemic was like so I kind of expect their politics to be wildly different.)

Astroturfing exist to poison the minds of on lookers. If useful idiots didn’t adopt the warped logic they wouldn’t astroturf.

It blows my mind that people are dumb enough for it to work but in an era of razor tight electoral margins, even a few idiots can matter.

exactly. every one of them is a liability. fuck this whole world. burn it. let plants and animals have it. we’re fucking failures.