It's all just a big hate circlejerk. They compete on who can dunk the hardest on the big bad person. This has always been a thing in ideological bubbles. However, now they're competing on the scale of entire social networks, so one-upping each other requires being ever more extreme.
Then there's the hysteria, since pretending to experience emotional trauma wins you extra points nowadays. That makes the conversation that much more absurd.
It's all just a big hate circlejerk. They compete on who can dunk the hardest on the big bad person. This has always been a thing in ideological bubbles. However, now they're competing on the scale of entire social networks, so one-upping each other requires being ever more extreme.
Then there's the hysteria, since pretending to experience emotional trauma wins you extra points nowadays. That makes the conversation that much more absurd.