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They're probably just trying to be nice. Folks are more likely to listen to what you have to say when your kind and polite and not seeming judgemental. And being nice pushes against this idea of scary communists trying to take everything you own and change everything you like.
I mean we know that 75% of the threads here are indecipherable to anyone who hasn't lurked for like 6 weeks at least. Same difference. When you first enter a new social space you pick up these linguistic nuances over time, and that's one important way to be part of the "in group".