The total number of anticommunists is getting smaller, so the real die-hards are getting louder. Typical reactionary behavior, you can see that “tankiejerk” is just one user and a handful of stragglers coming by, almost identical to MeanwhileOnGrad.

I also have the urge you describe. Maybe there’s some selection bias at play here, ideologically. A lemmy full of tech people who likely have tech jobs and seem to express conventional reddity tech person politics: that’s multiple axes of being rewarded for not asking difficult questions. Many of them were probably the good kids in school, who did all their homework and never vandalized anything. Going along to get along has served them well so far, so why even stop to listen to those weirdos outside the garden wall?

And OTOH you have a big diverse group of people from all niches of life who’s main unifying ideology is one they’ve all arrived at by suspicion and curiosity. I’d bet that most of us had some early experiences being treated differently for whatever reason (race, sexuality/identity, poverty, being neuroatypical etc) that create a growing dissonance when we’re exposed to childhood propaganda that, perhaps, the kids who the teacher has never been mean to just passively nod at. Not because they’re dumb or any lazy explanation like that, but because they haven’t had the experience of being shunted off the narrow rail of normalcy that makes one feel the bitterness of having to mumble a pledge of allegiance to a fucking flag every morning, and listen to people go on and on about how there is no better society on earth than the one where you already feel completely stifled and alienated, and if anyone says there’s a better society we’ll bomb them off the face of the planet.