They frustrate me too, but I struggle to ascribe direct political importance to this case* because they clearly were poorly socialized in navigating their ASD (I am not saying this casually), producing serious social-cognitive difficulties, and are also almost certainly a minor. We can speak of their nonsense as a symptom of this awful leftcom trend, but I view them much more as just a victim of a society only even marginally concerned with socializing allistic people, among other relevant problems.

Frankly, I think addressing this accepting the ultimately false framing that this was a political dispute rather than a mundane social difficulty was a mistake on my part, but I'm glad you got something out of it, so it wasn't a total waste.

This is the second time this month I've encountered a case like this, though Dylan was much more polite about it than the other one, who was coping by being a complete asshole.

*in terms of leftcom political analysis or whatever. Obviously I go on to talk about different political significance.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

because they clearly were poorly socialized in navigating their ASD (I am not saying this casually), producing serious social-cognitive difficulties, and are also almost certainly a minor

Yeah, I was speaking about my frustrations with leftcoms in general, not this specific person. I tried to avoid engaging with them because I would've just gotten rude and snarky with them and it wouldn't have helped anyone. I'm still not 100% convinced they weren't just an elaborate troll though, but benefit of the doubt is important, and they weren't really hostile like a troll would be.