The specific names here don’t matter, because the rhetorical construction is endemic in broadly left-wing posting. It starts from a place of open antagonism, it doesn’t actually inform, and it functions only as a public statement of the poster’s fundamental righteousness. Utterly unserious stuff
Speaking as something of a left-wing poster myself: this is politics as personal branding, not politics designed to convince. People can and will post what they want, but let’s not kid ourselves about what this is
If X is bad, and Y is relatedly bad, it seems to me more productive to draw a clear connection between them rather than posture about all the idiots who don’t already see it. But what do I know
Exactly. If they're only interested in posturing and not at all in building a coalition for their cause, then they're not serious, period. It's just personal branding.
