there are plenty of good,decent folk on this site.
I have met them,talked with them and I like them.(you mentioned a few).
I operate under similar rules.
I match tone for tone.
but only when initiated.
can't really comment on your own personal observations on the behavior of "lefties" since that is subjective.
I can share my subjective experience on this site over the past two weeks.
I have been harassed,stalked,called a tranny,stolen valor,a pedo,an idiot,a moron.
so I haven't experienced this white knighting by the classic liberals on this site.
nor do I expect it,i have been in the political sphere for decades.i am pretty thick skinned.
I rememeber when I first came to this site and thought it was infected with a gaggle of retards due to the 100+ accounts of purgeboy.
some things to know about me:
1.i do not partisan,nor engage in identity politics,but I mercilessly ridicule people who do.
2.i have no issues with disagreeing,my goal is to understand.
3.i do this by poking and needling.i need to flesh out if who I am engaging is a muppet,or a reactionary or an actual human being.
4.i rarely have the emotional investment that people assume when they read my memes.again,poking and needling.
5.if I post an opinion,bet your house I can back it up.
6.i do not have a problem with conservatives,libertarians,trump supporters etc etc.i do ,however,have a problem with the institutional powers they may support.
I separate the two.
7.i do not post my politics.so don't ask.assume away,most people do.(incorrectly).
8.my motivations are not simply to "trigger" people,but to understand,and I also frequent ultra-lefty sites who are convinced that I am an alt rightie.(and this is where I will agree with you.they can be vicious)
9.i do not suffer fools,flaccid arguments or bullshit justifications to perpetuate a narrative that is counterintuitive to a persons supposed ideology.(a person just did the the other day.used identity politics to justify being a shitbag.never occurred to him to simply apologize.he needed that moral high ground to feel superior).
I already think you are a decent person.
otherwise I wouldn't have engaged with you.
the other day I posted a joke (which flopped) but you didn't just come in screeching.now,you probably made some assumptions but you didn't act on those assumptions.
and when it was revealed I was joking.
you were honest,and sincere.
showed me a lot about your character.
nice to meet ya buddy!