Also, it’s the Internet and sincerity is a weakness. Just because you’re supporting something “ironically” doesn’t mean you’re not also expressing part of your genuinely held beliefs. I’m almost willing to bet most terminally online comrades around my age have regularly expressed their actual socialist tendencies through some amount of irony, either to try and spread leftist ideas in a non-leftist space or to vibe check a community you’re not that familiar with yet or even because you yourself aren’t completely certain about what you actually believe yet. Hell, since this site is gay as fuck most of us have probably done something like that about sexuality, gender or whatever too. And right wingers do exactly the same thing about what they believe.

I’m not saying any posters here are actually trying to shit on unions or whatever, just that people should be careful about what they end up normalizing in places where they don’t know everyone personally. When you talk to someone and you’re both being ironic about something that doesn’t necessarily mean both parties have the same understanding of what the actual punchline is