If you want to farm upvotes on social media, you gotta preach to the choir and make them feel good about themselves.

Engaging intellectually with the other side is inefficient. You can get more upvotes with less effort with humorous personal attacks against them.

For example: Donald Drumpf, amiright? Who the hell buys a gold-plated toilet? Tiny hands. Sad.

Dashing out a comment like that is far quicker than analysing the impact of subsidies and protectionist policies on the American manufacturing and agricultural industries - and easier for people to engage with to boot.