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by sleepysysadmin 1962 days ago
>I started off with politics as an example because it's the first place I noticed this behavior, but it really stretches into any vein of interest that people have. There's entire rivalries that form around online personas or ideologies in a given domain that are just as divisive as politics, however, they stay penned up in their own domain so you only come across them when you're in communities of a certain mass.

Politics, religion, sports, nationality, money, and women are the given topics of trolling. That's where you will find all of the echo chambers and controversy.

Politics are easy targets because American politics are tremendously volatile. The USA has been at war longer than ever before. Obama got into power talking about ending wars(he earnt the nobel peace prize because of this) but instead he started multiple new wars. He killed people in at least 8 known countries under his orders.

Trump then got into power never really saying he was going to end any wars but at least he didnt start new ones? He was awfully close to multiple new ones. What did he do instead? He bullied the USA's allies.

The USA has ptsd and is finding enemies everywhere they go.

Will biden be different? Lol no chance. He already ordered a battalion back into syria and he's fabricating reasons to go to war with iran.