>>11868878>>11869938I think this combined with wilful restraint helps too. You see everything so many times that you begin to understand it more as a collective mind or force-of-nature entity trying to assert its partyline in new territory (in other words people are NPCs), you get bored and tired, then begin to not be so impacted emotionally and eventually uncaring intellectually. Because there isn't much intellectual substance in the mentally ill schoolyard bullying and status-fronting that passes for politics, it gets boring fast. Once you've overdosed, you are beyond. If there's something worth reading, considering, and replying to then it will likely be reasonable enough that it will not cause strong emotional reaction. If something isn't then there's no point in doing any of that because those words so paining are coming from a sockpuppet's mouth. They come from echochambers and mental illness and simply put stupid and unaware hosts of this collective. These are not the sorts that can be swayed or corrected, or even encouraged to think for themselves, because the input that reinforce the inanities they spout is much greater than reasonable or critical input, so easily washed away if it even manages to reach them to begin with (it doesn't). The bar is set pretty low precisely because in these spaces memetic value is of sole importance. Childish simplification and dishonesty and us vs. them ensues. The memetic value must be in emotional reaction, whether good or bad. That's how it propagates and destroys discourse. That's why it aims to enrage or smugify. It's low (no) effort but highly potent.
This applies to socialmedia pretend politics so the specifics will be different for other 'certain things'.
