i would like to identify this kind of behavior as "testing the waters"
when a political being wants to shift communities they need a narrative justification to do so and will often find ways to phrase things in ways that set off their original community to see how much opposition exists to evaluate if a move is possible and as a way to start to build antagonisms with that original community to make the move look less opportunistic.
i fucking love anti imperialism
lets fucking goooooo
dont answer what i said and indicate that my lack of reflexive rhetorical piety is a lack of sympathy which precludes someone from being a communist because a communist is a good christian