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Go for it. It's mostly that it makes others not want to interact with you guys. I obviously don't really care that much. You don't convince them of anything except maybe making them dislike you, so the opposite of what you should want. I know it enforces group think and makes others in the group feel more attached so they don't leave really, but it's not going to turn anyone new into a leftist.
This is one of those things that does a good job of demonstrating for normal social cohesion mechanisms are villified when observed in fringe groups. You have no problem insulting and condescending and yet criticize us for the same, even as people have been nice to you. I don't care to flatter the sensibilities of whoever the next NATOist shitlib is telling me about asiatic hordes, they are clearly not interested in learning. What matters are the people who don't have the same moronic confidence that the NATOists do.
My problem is that a lot of the people here think that insulting people who mostly agree with you is the norm. Sure, inform people of what's going on and what's wrong with their justification, but "dunking on them" isn't going to change their opinion. It doesn't matter how many times they see the image of the pig shitting on its balls. It's not going to change their mind. The ideal should be to change people's opinion. We should be trying to create more leftists, not trying to create more anti-tankies.
Your argument is useless because you're bundling a bunch of behaviors together without substantiation while taking a very narrow view of what interactions do and what their purpose can be (ignoring my counterexample at the end).
As an aside, NATOist shitlibs and "I disavow Biden while taking Pompeo's line on foreign adversaries" types are a) materially identical and b) completely antithetical to my ideology, not my cute little neighbors who prefer mousse over fudge or whatever minor affectation we are worried about protecting here.