Post-Trump, I’ve been noting accounts with unhinged and hateful opinions, auto-flagging and downvoting whenever I see them around, and getting on with my life. (Or aspiring to, anyway.) Yelling at people who are aggressively wrong on the internet is hardly worth my time: there’s too many of them and they never change their mind. But perhaps I can make them feel unwelcome and cause them to leave.

I try really hard to assume good intentions and take the most charitable interpretation which leads me at times to engage with people like this. I need to recalibrate.

The most charitable interpretation sometimes is that the person is trolling rather than crazy and willfully misinformed.

Undoubtedly but I meant more that his behavior is indistinguishable from an LLM prompted to divide and his account age means that’s entirely possible.

Whether human or bot, if the behaviors the same, might as well ignore them

No doubt. It was clearly a waste of effort to engage.