The meme, from what I thought, was asking if the difficulty came from mechanics or numbers. My point was that difficulty sliders are usually based on numbers, increasing HP or decreasing damage, and not based on adding new mechanics for enemies. Perhaps I misunderstood.
Hell, I've had someone sneakily try to use AI in an argument in a relatively small Discord server of about a hundred people, lie about it when called out, and then finally fess up when pressed harder only to say 'who cares, i don't want to waste the effort to argue with you'.
All you can really do is, yes, learn to recognize the signs.
This is why a lot of the smarter uber rich play both sides of the field and generally don't make politician condemnations - you don't get put in the awkward position of having to make appeals to the guy you've spent a decade calling literally Hitler.
Every LTL option has efficacy issues, but pepper spray is probably the most stopping power even if it has issues with being close ranged/requiring a face shot/possibly getting yourself with it too in enclosed or high air flow areas.
Gamergate is perhaps the first time there was organic widespread protest against the cultural left's infection of a medium. In a distant sense, you could argue this paved the way for future rebuttals in other aspects of life by showing there is support for those opposing that encroachment. Also the left hates traitors the most, and a lot of early Gamergaters were liberal-minded to begin with, so they can never let it go.
This is the oft-forgotten female version of coom-brained. The same women who wrote Harry Potter getting dicked by Malfoy, Frodo and Sam or Kirk and Spock wrote this. People who don't know often think this is the result of gay men, but gay dudes just create gay porn, women write gay 'erotica'.
I remember this guy, he ran for the Libertarian nomination back in 2016, think he was on Rubin's show and maybe Crowder? I'm not surprised he'd be against tariffs.