Rage drives engagement. Couple that with an upvote system and it becomes a game. This is all just entertainment rather than an actual discourse. The very medium itself drives this and most people are too dumb to realize or just don't care because they're too busy enjoying themselves. They don't stop to think about what it is they're consuming or what that lead to. Propaganda works through repetition. Keep repeating the doom and gloom message and people eventually latch onto the notion that everything has gone wrong and that there isn't hope, so they become defeated without even setting foot on the battlefield. This is what his posts accomplish and it's why I say he's a bad actor. I no longer care whether he's willfully malicious or not, the result is the same and it works against our interests.