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the other day a tanky said a sentence constructed like that to me too, while literally arguing for me to join his authoritarian group
That's correct. Dismissal of the effort and disgust for the goal seem to go hand-in-hand.
Digital privacy? They've got you anyway AND I don't care about privacy Environmentalism? Nothing is 100% green anyway AND I don't care about the environment
Lots of examples like that.
They want to beat down both your goal and effort, because admitting even one of those being reasonable threatens their worldview.