Liam is proudly anti-communist, American and anti-intellectual. Alice can have some pretty bad takes but it's overall fine, the real issue is she folds really quickly to the peer pressure when Liam starts getting aggressive while Rocz just wants to talk about trains. So the general dynamic is Alice will say something vaguely communist then Liam will start yelling insane half remembered black book shit at her until she goes "I guess that's true..." to get him to stop. There will be an awkward pause then Rocz will resume talking about trains.

I never thought I'd miss the mansplaining discourse circa 2010 but here I am, desperate for the unearned confidence of a wildly below average man yelling over a woman until she submits to be called out.

I really do hate the guy. He loves to brag about just being the most selfish piece of shit and putting other people's lives at risk. He revels in the fact that he refuses to learn anything - not just politically, but on any topic they cover that's not like beer and sports. This would be too on the nose as a caricature making fun of the average American.

Then all he does is complain about having an extremely cushy, absurdly well paid job and how he doesn't want to do it. Just quit already you pig.