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Can't really tell what the intended tone of this is. Kinda reads like you're calling me a lib for using the word "involved." If this is meant as a joke, all good, I appreciate that we are all dealing with shit atm.
If this is meant as actual critique I would urge you to be more direct, as your post stands now this reads like a reddit comment or a very liberal critique from a disingenuous socdem.
The tone is sarcasm /
Is this tone policing a new form of sealioning? I really don't have the time or santity left to entertain sealions anymore.
I have an issue by that phrase and "the struggle continues". Like some coping mechanism other than to find community to further cope and deal with this hell world.
There is no form of peacefully "getting involved" that is going to change this. From MLK to Bernie people need to understand there is nothing but
left. The powers that be are leaving little choice.
You're seeing that play out in Minnesota now. We saw it at Standing Rock, Occupy, Battle for Seattle, opposition to the Iraq war. The only thing that changes things is when the powers
making yourself a felon.
Even when exposed nothing changes. Look at what they did to Snowden, Assange,
and the Boeing whistle-blowers. Hell 
. Nothing changed. The capitalists still went on and did it more knowing they can get away with it because the accepted modes of opposition left are toothless.
I think this country needs a new Declaration of Independence. That isn't going to come from anything that isn't
Mao said Political power grows out of
Call me whatever names you like. I didn't call you names. This isn't personal.
Thanks for elaborating and the tone indicator. I had to look up what sealioning even is - I certainly wasn't trying to tone police you, I was just asking you to clarify your tone since I couldn't infer it from your original post and it clearly mattered.
I have no way of knowing how you feel or what your intentions were when you replied and really thought I was going out of my way to politely ask for clarification while pushing back with some critique. I stand by what I said that you should be more direct but in hindsight I should have phrased it differently - suggesting you were lib or socdem rather than more directly saying that your original post (if it was in earnest, which you have clarified it wasnt to some extent) smacked of a form of liberalism was not a very useful shorthand, and I apologize for that.
No harm was meant in my original reply to you, i was really earnestly asking for clarification. Thanks for spending the time clarifying comrade.