yeah, I like macklemorectrl's posts, but he definitely let the dominant PoliGAF tenor get under his skin too much of the time, a mistake I made a few times myself.
My least favorite PoliGAFfer of late is probably the professed socialist whose main praxis seemed to be denouncing leftists and defending liberal Democrats for what were ostensibly noble, intersectional reasons but always seemed to me to be mainly about buttressing his ego as the arbiter of true socialism
i never got pigeon's deal and i got the impression that even most of poligaf didn't like him very much
he was a really strange dude though and I would like to talk with again him sometime in the future
Hmm, I got the sense that HillGAF liked him quite a bit because he validated many of their arguments about Bernie, his supporters, and leftists in general despite being a socialist himself, thus reassuring them that most leftists really were as bad as they thought and that it wasn't just left-punching.
I also think he was bitter that the vast majority of self-identified leftists and socialists in the US in 2017 rejected his views on things like the 2016 primary, the greatness of the Democratic Party, foreign policy, and material analysis of the 2016 election being evil and racist, and that drove him to invest so much energy in attacking other leftists.
but that's probably too much armchair psychoanalysis and maybe I'm wildly off here, I dunno
