It hits for me when I'm typing it out and I can already read the braindead response they're going to type and I don't want to spend another 2 paragraphs preempting the obvious response and I definitely don't want to wait a few hours/days to explain why they're still wrong.
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That's because Reddit sells anger quite well. Their bots and human instigators work overtime to get you to comment like that. I think all of us Reddit refugees have fallen for this shit.
We're not doing great on deprogramming ourselves either. The news outlets not only manufacture consent, they also manufacture outrage. This isn't a new problem either. It's been going on since at least the Spanish-American war, probably earlier (see also William Randolph Hurst , Joseph Pulitzer).