You know, I was present for the entire Taliban retaking Afghanistan thread last year AND the Israel/Palestine flare-up last year too, and neither of those threads got as testy and, well, hateful as this one. What is different? For this war, I know us typical AnNers are neutral -- maybe SLIGHTLY Russia-leaning (mostly because we're extremely anti-clown world) but the general hate and other users coming in here baiting is intense. I just like to shitpost and make dark jokes while looking at (sorta) news updates during major happenings but here? It's starting to get less fun (which I hate admitting, because I love this thread -- orders of magnitude better than MSM or other websites in terms of discussion, even in it's current state).
Maybe this war is more "real" than the Afghanistan debacle and the Israeli flare ups in 2021? Is half the site Ukrainian and feels like they're about to get genocided? Maybe the fog of war has left only room for speculating and we create internet wars here for content? That's gay but given the notable users and mods who've contributed to the flames, I honestly don't know.
Maybe as the fog of war clears and we get real content, things will clear. But man, the energy here is bad and many users I generally like and proudly shitpost with are going off the rails and makes me sad. I just want to watch and laugh at clown world like we've always done before...