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Americans are indoctrinated by their media and society to be segregated into political and social camps that have tribal wars with each other. That's all priority no. 1 for them rn and it spills over.
It's just people bickering about social and political issues like gender, misinterpretation of isms, social hierarchy, etc. But because Americans don't do anything but compete amongst each other, they bring their problems here where it echoes out into nothingness and disintegrates. But so long as they feel they were heard or had an online "win", they get a dopamine hit and sense of progress, entirely ignorant to their apathy.
This can feel, at times, the place that attracts the biggest losers. Like all the troll characters out of South Park's Skank Hunt saga. But there is also a huge amount of insecurity and desire to be spotlighted. What society thinks of a person is also always a really important thing they'll post about—just is, they really, really care for some reason.
Moosh that all together and you got a bunch of apathetic, socially anxious, and insecure people that lack social tact and empathy, hidden on keyboards, watching their world fall apart but hoping someone besides them will help it.