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sundin13 said:

I don't really understand the need for the entirety of the left to rise up to denounce every random college student who says something bad. It seems to never be enough for some people. I've spent years arguing with and criticizing people on the left, but there is always some random asshole who I've never heard of that I've somehow failed to denounce, so oops, all the centrists are fascists now. I didn't say "this random person I've never heard of said something bad" loudly enough, so this Twitter user now supports authoritarianism.

I think it is and has always been bullshit. People just want the moral high ground to justify their desire for fascism. They should own their own shit instead of putting it on strangers. If you honestly argue that you are a Republican because the left didn't denounce some college kids hard enough, go into the woods and have a long hard think, because there's something going on there that you are purposely avoiding looking at.

It's the equivalent of someone saying that they aren't buying company X's console because they find company X's fanboys obnoxious, that's why they go with company Y or Z. As if company Y and Z would not have obnoxious fanboys as well. Somehow games (which would be policies in politics) are meaningless.