> It really feels impossible to escape these types of political statements on the platform now.

Following Babylon Bee isn't mandatory.

As I said, it’s basically on every post, even a non-political post like announcing that a new Twitter CEO has been chosen. I used Babylon Bee as an example because you said that you didn’t see this trend and mentioned that you read the Babylon Bee.

> As I said, it’s basically on every post, even a non-political post like announcing that a new Twitter CEO has been chosen.

OK I think I understand what you're saying - every discussion turns political? Twitter has been that way since 2015. It's the world's public square. Only difference is people are allowed to disagree with Californian liberals.

It’s not the worlds public square.

It’s a gladiatorial arena (maybe WWE/performance art would be an even better metaphor) for the US culture wars. If they could please get it over with soon so we can return to normal programming, that would be great

Yep that too. I’ve said twitter is a MOBA and it’s always been that way. I once spent an awful morning having Jake Archibald and his 40K followers abuse me because I didn’t like the ’fetch’ spec.

English-language Twitter has always had a huge amount of inflammatory political commentary. I gave up on the platform for many years because I couldn't follow artists, film directors, or engineers without seeing their political opinions plastered all over my feed and I found it distracting and obnoxious. As others have pointed out, you're looking at the comment section of an account that posts political satire.

What do you mean by "these types of political statements"? Right-wing ones?

> As others have pointed out, you're looking at the comment section of an account that posts political satire.

Which account is political satire? The Babylon Bee or Elon Musk’s personal account? I kid.

> What do you mean by "these types of political statements"? Right-wing ones?

I intentionally didn’t label it. Where on the spectrum does a statement like “women can’t run companies” lie? To me, the issue isn’t political. It’s that people whose entire identity is founded upon fighting a culture war seem to be the loudest voices on Twitter. It makes the product very unpleasant.

Oh, I get that. It's just that you also wrote:

> The 5th reply tags a number of republican politicians and was posted by someone whose Twitter tagline is simply "Patriot".

Which is labeled and is not particularly egregious, so that weakens your point.

I don't recall comment sections of popular or political accounts ever being respectful or interesting. But in some cases, the bots that used to plague every popular account's comments do seem preferable to that kind of stuff.