I agree, that’s why Beehaw sucks. You can spew all kinds of hateful garbage but as long as you use the right dogwhistles to have a veneer of civility people will blindly upvote it because all they see is positive reactions.

Downvotes are also often appropriately used to silence fascists spewing hate.

The problem is that they’re not recognizing clear communication and yet assume anything that confuses them is a mistake made by another.

The worst part is the pedants aren’t even right most of the time. I’ve seen so many people complaining about perfectly acceptable sentence structure.

I tell myself they’re just younger folks that have been failed by their schools, but then I get sad that they’re younger folks that have been failed by their schools.