I noticed weird ire too in the Werner thread of people genuinely upset the government was paying for his medical bills while they had to work hard for a living. Like, yeah, but he's also still homeless, dying of self inflicted health problems, and never going to achieve his dreams due to his own horrible personality. That's hardly a win.
Spring 2020 is when I noticed people were getting way too ass blasted about political opinions. I think Covid broke something in this community, as weird as it sounds. It seems to have made people a lot more paranoid and angry, and assume the worst in anyone with a different opinion. Maybe the timing was just coincidental though, or compounded by the election. I have a lot of thoughts on how this website has evolved over the past 5 years but it's kind of hard to properly organize them.
TLDR; We are all human and people should be judged on a case by case basis, not as a whole.