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by Kim_Bruning 15 days ago
This is brigading and it is not ok. It doesn't matter what the hot-button-topic-du-jour is. Oil? Think of the children? AI? Doesn't matter, they get to vent rage on a random subject at a Random Person On The Internet.

I don't know what sets this kind of thing off, maybe it's not predictable, but it's never ok.

I'd like to hope in a few years those people will look back on their participation in this particular brigade sheepishly; but sadly it's more likely they'll have forgotten about it by morning.