Antifascism

No no, you see they are being "ironic"! Don't you understand their alpha brained comedy? /s

This is exactly what I was thinking. You don't need to employ any tricks right now, they're pretty open about it.

Like roaches, except more skeevy.

At this point, they may not even be hiding

I've seen people unironically insist John Brown was a Nazi. I believe "posting John Brown memes" was one of the arguments for banning a swath of leftist subs on Reddit, back in '16.

You gotta use all caps to really show how much we LOVE killing Nazis.

but only when you have the energy.

Thank you for this, because I don't have more than to post fuck Nazis

There is some merit to this point. People are emotional creatures first, and sometimes exclusively. It often doesn't matter if you're right if the other people feels bad about it.

This is a really immature, unsophisticated, way to engage with the world, but it's the reality for a lot of people. Honestly, it happens to all of us sometimes. Some people seem to rarely rise above the gutfeel level, though.

It does kind of suck that we have to cater to the most simplistic ways of engaging with the world, because if we don't they'll form a far right party and do some genoide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI

This?

There is currently a massive hate campaign on reddit against the owner of the "Optimists Unite" subreddit because it got flooded with anti-trump posts. It blew up when the owner said that he was going to clean up the subreddit and enforce rules so that it's not just another political rage sub. From there literally tens of thousands of people have spread the rumor that this person is a nazi, that they're right-wing and Trump supporter, etc. None of it had any real evidence other than a screenshot where he said he was going to "take the subreddit back" and somehow people took that to mean purging leftist politics entirely.

I have no dogs in the fight, I'm an outspoken leftist but I certainly don't feel optimistic nor do I care what happens to the subreddit. But holy shit, the fervor and hate that people level against someone who just wants to do something specific and goal-oriented. The bots that jump into these bandwagons and hype up the emotions even more are making things even worse.

This was just one example that had high visibility, but you can imagine how many smaller-scale dramas burn out this way where someone faces mob wrath for just not wanting to engage in the same political binary.

To be clear, I think we should ALL engage in the political binary and fix the fucking thing, but I also wouldn't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to wear a certain uniform or adhere to a specific narrative.

Human tribalism is very dangerous on either side. It's far more dangerous on the right, but oftentimes even the best intentions just become fascism again when nobody is on-guard and careful how much power we're giving a storyline. For further reading, just read any history books about communism and revolutions. There is a hard-wired system in human beings where we form societies based around shared narratives, and this force helped us survive millions of years and form groups in adverse conditions, but those human qualities are not adapted to a very complicated, digital world where we can all see and share ideas across the globe in an instant.

Is this you? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/8/1786532/-Cartoon-You-made-me-become-a-Nazi