Posting about perfect leftist ideas is easy; going out there and trying to bend the real world towards those ideas is hard. And if you shit on people who are at least out there trying, well, you’re smarter and edgier than everyone else, because having any hope of even modestly improving things is for suckers.

Yeah, and I think this is at least as important an influence as any Christian martyrdom complex.

It's embarrassing to admit that Western leftism is essentially politically irrelevant in the West, so it's much easier to say that AES don't deserve support. Then, they don't have to address the fact that there's nothing western leftists can do to materially aid AES even if they wanted.