I’m not twisting the definition of his “can you like die” comment. I’m friends with that user, actually, and he absolutely isn’t the type of person to legitimately believe that someone like you should legitimately die. He’s fed up with political users and doesn’t like them, which I disagree with him about, but whatever. The point is he’s not an extremist. Almost all of us aren’t extremists. Most of us also aren’t particularly big fans of either political candidate.
I have personally never heard “Tampon Tim” as a term for Walz, so that’s me (and a majority of the MS_memer_group stream) being unfamiliar and that’s my fault. It seemed like you invented that term and it felt odd and stupid to The_Vigilante when you said it. Additionally, it’s also equally odd and stupid to us when leftists call right-wing candidates like Trump “Nazis”. We joke and laugh about them being stupid like that. We don’t call Trump “Hitler”, but we also don’t call Walz “Tampon Tim”. Do you see my point? We also don’t fight extremism with more extremism — that’s stupid.
We think both political sides bicker and fight and take things too far. He thought your gif was weird and didn’t understand it as mocking Walz’s policy. He’s not a very political person (and like I said, he’s not even an American), and from no outside context, it looks very weird to just put in a comment. That’s why he didn’t like your comment, with that gif. In no way did he feel like he couldn’t “handle the truth” and said “can you like die”. He wrongfully interpreted it as you being creepy.
Also, when I say “we” I’m referring to the general opinion of the users on the
imgflip.com/m/MS_memer_group stream on Imgflip, which is what The_Vigilante and I use frequently. We aren’t particularly big “leftists” or “rightists”, with most of us being almost completely centrists with minor political leanings (for that matter, I’m not a very big centrist, by the way, I’m a right-libertarian). We aren’t very big “lefty memers”, contrary to what you think. Generally the
imgflip.com/m/LGBTQ stream on Imgflip is a much more leftist, and the MS_memer_group stream (including me) often bashes them for being that way.