>>12291805nta but Hangman literally is an audience avatar for a specific type of left winger- the sort who think they're politically engaged by repeating talking points at surface level, making a big show of where they stand on a topic without a show of WHY they stand on it, and not engaging or thinking about anything deeper.
It's not an exclusively left issue you get tons on the right doing it, as well as the 'enlightened centrists' who have the same superficial understanding of (and superficial INTEREST IN) political issues so signal they're above it by picking the midground every time. But the leftwing version of this is the most mainstream, because it serves the political establishment the best currently- zero rocking the boat for anyone actually in power, just clap along & fight amongst yourselves over who of the 99% is the most privileged. It's certainly the most common attitude you get on Reddit, tumblr, or until recently Twitter.
Hangman embodies this superficial signalling in and out of character, he soapboxes about trend issues but he hastily deleted a tweet about China and the Uighurs as soon as the mainstream superficial-left orthodoxy made it clear they didn't care about that. Criticising China is bad for the establishment because China makes their shit, owns resources in countries that make their shit, owns their politicians and runs their beta test for digital & financial surveillance measures with Sesame Credit and the Great Firewall. So the superficial left never give a fuck about China despite claiming to care about the climate, neocolonialism/neoimperialism, dictatorship, oppression of minorities, state suppression of dissent, state weaponisation of finances etc. because they only engage on a superficial trend level to signal their team affiliation, and the superficial team messaging will never go against establishment interests.
tl;dr for faggots- Hangman is Reddit incarnate so calling him that isn't a buzzword it's the truth.
