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Every thread against people not strictly aligning with Leftist politics will be boiled down to: “There are three types of people: reasonable people who agree with me, crazy fascists on the other side, and lily-livered wimps who can’t pick a side (and are also secretly fascists who just won't admit it)!”
Anyone with passable writing skills will be downvoted because creating cogent arguments against them is hard, and heaven forbid anyone see a smart argument that doesn't align with your views perfectly.
In a similar vein, people will use the downvote as a "fuck you" button without commenting or adding any value to the conversation whatsoever.
(Edit: Yes, yes. You're all hilarious. I may not have a button to hit, but fuck you too.)
this is written like a lily-livered wimp who is anti-woke and won't admit it
My liver may be flower-scented, but I tend to not paint situations in broad-stoke terms like "woke" that are used to dismiss valid arguments.
You can't disprove a label (especially a vague one that someone else applies to you), however you can very much disprove points.
That sounds like some of that woke socio-commu-liberalism to me.
/s for the oblivious