When people on the left say things that people on the right dislike. Serious answer: there's a theory that some people say things just to impress their friends

When people on the left say things that people on the right dislike. Serious answer: there's a theory that some people say things just to impress their friends of the same ideological stripes (although the charge is usually leveled against those on the left), rather than actually placing much importance on those things. For instance, the github people opposed to the ICE contract are just doing it to "look good" in the eyes of their peers rather than actually, say, caring about kids locked up in cages and the other nasty things that an unleashed ICE is doing. I think it's mostly a BS theory.