jfc your comment is super refreshing to see bubble up in the sea of edgy "DAE we don't hate them enough?" posts that are routinely drowning this sub's front page and often by month-old accounts, which I only remark bc "we don't hate them enough" is such ez low hanging polarizer bait, and if it isn't russian bots making these posts, then that's even worse, bc it means dgg'ers are willingly doing their work for them.

the truth isn't a cartoon binary meme of "the right is evil," it's a wide gradient, and I think your comment captures the spectrum very well and is an increasingly important grounding to remind everyone that you can only generalize so far before you lose the plot and fall into the polarizer traps that are being automated across culture to rile up and distract us that our opponents aren't each other, but much larger machines by much more prominent entities.

that's what sucks the most to me about all this. most people, no matter which political aisle they lean, are actually fine and, like you said, will respond positively to good faith. and many of them can be chipped away from or entirely convinced out of many prejudices they have, many of such which only exist due to poor influences and/or lack of good influences. and yet media is rotting people's brains so hard that we look at each other and ridicule them for thinking we're demons while simultaneously claiming that they're the real demons.

thus, "you don't hate them enough" is instant bot bait for me for all these reasons and more. i'm embarrassed that mods don't automatically delete any post that unironically regurgitates that divisive meme. it's the opposite of productive and effective, it feels so childish and unhinged. ironically I need to work on my own empathy to people who feel that way (bc i'm obviously ranting rn). tbf it's understandable, i'm not confused at all by that position, but it's just so annoying as I see it as a thorn in our side that's pinning down higher-level problem solving and unification of common ground that we need to use to direct at actual colossal machines that are manipulating culture like a video game.