The best part about this is that the Nazis ain't got shit on the communists when it comes to suppression and death counts. But the left, or what used to be the left, is too dumb to see it. They've all been raised in a steady diet of superheroes and black and white world views.
Be the change you seek? Nonviolence? Turn the other cheek? Ghandi? MLK and civil rights? Fuck outta here. We all mutherfukkin Batman now.
Insulation and a lack of self reflection/criticism seems to be threads tying movements on the left and the right together right now IMO. Not to say they are equivalent in larger capacities, but just that that blind spot seems to exist in both spaces in my experience.
For every GAF post, I hear, read, or see Trumpkins that think protecting the greater good requires cracking down on immigrants, snuffing out ANTIFA, draining the swamp(basically anyone mean to god emperor Trump) even if it goes out of the bounds of norms of behavior or the law(because hey, Obama/Clinton crime family/Pelosi did worse). Without any sense that what they are advocating looks kinda similar to the very thing they are crying that the left and the "establishment" are being accused of.
Its a different manifestation of blind spots on the left, and probably not as concerning to society right now given the power imbalances favoring right-wing extremism, but I agree they are there and that thread sort of highlights some of them.