[suzzer99]

And yet Americans have never been angrier.

[davidw]

Tom Nichols has a theory that people are actually just kind of bored.

Most of the men involved in this were pretty well off, for instance. Big trucks, nice houses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl...

Hardly oppressed people.

[tim333]

Social media algorithms tend to stir things a bit.

[jazzyjackson]

social media is people

I swear if the Boston Tea Party happened today it would be blamed on misinformation on social media

[macintux]

Social media is algorithms amplifying divisive content to increase engagement.

[lazide]

Eh, people got pretty worked up in the ‘70’s. And WW2. And the Cold War. And WW1.