MyBrainHurts

I think it’s a combination. There are accounts which run classic FSB style; series of innocuous posts and then ZELENSKY IS A NAZI, then innocuous posts.

Meanwhile, ignorant dumb kids who have been dealt a rough hand with covid, housing prices, ai, trump, climate change etc are pretty susceptible to the dumbest but most appealing simple answers/boogymen.

Add in the Internet’s ability to help you avoid ever encountering an opinion with which you disagree and you’ve got a very toxic breeding ground for the worst and dumbest ideas.

That’s totally fair. I guess I have a hard time imaging anyone caring about downvotes so I assumed it had to be something like what I described.

For sure. But it’s just tiring to get notifications for hours of someone yelling about shit libs or something.

I get that but there’s also a certain “ugh” when a bunch of .ml folks find a post and want to yell at you about it.