[wonderwonder]

I've been noticing it around social media lately. People are so aggressive with random strangers on the internet over the most harmless of things. Someone says "Hey I like the color blue" and the next thing people are insulting their mother. Its crazy. 50% of responses on sites like twitter regardless of the topic are just people calling the poster some variation of political insult. People dedicate their entire existence to hating people like Musk. I dont get it, why intentionally be angry all the time. What happened to civil conversation.

[jjulius]

To be fair, reading your post I thought, "Was I projecting?" because I've definitely been guilty of purposely diving into a heated convo and doing what I can to keep it at that level. I even said as much in the middle of a heated HN discussion that I'm sure can be dug up, and I've abandoned commenting entirely a couple of times because I realized it in the moment.

It can, unfortunately, be an outlet for people who are dealing with some shit, and they might not realize it. Not saying that's what's up with OP, but I think it's why I've done it myself a time or two, despite usually being civil and open to a conversation.