I can understand if you spend all day looking at gooner subreddits so you cannot recognize that both images are extremes and the ideal is somewhere in the middle, and everyone who is halfway reasonable can understand that BOTH of these images suck

Because I have brain poisoning, I immediately saw this as a political parallel with liberalism incrementally becoming fascism. The liberal is able to recognize gooner behavior when it is more extreme than his own, but is unable to recognize his own gooner behavior for what it is, because he has an eternally receding horizon of greater goondom to compare himself to.