It's a distraction, and frankly, it's preferable to keep it that way. Better to have the enemy class lost in trivialities than rallying to mount a defense.

There’s a sort of nazi propagandist that just openly tweets out his plans to bamboozle people into supporting his agenda. When it works out he gets interviewed and praised. We’re way, way, way past good faith on a lot of issues

Funnily enough, as an aside, I can’t imagine an easier place to propagate his sort of nonsense than a large, highly visible discussion forum that codifies assuming good faith into the rules and makes it explicitly against the rules to point out astroturfing, even if it’s obvious. Any platform that prides itself on an outdated idea of neutrality is easily weaponized by these bad actors.