Rational, nice-smelling comrades: Let me hear and consider what this person has to say and if I agree with it or not, regardless of what he said yesterday.

Internet goblins: Let me find one flaw in something this person said from cradle to grave and dismiss everything they every said, with plenty of recreational name-calling thrown in.

Part of it is basic human shittiness, part of it is the slant of the medium, where glib put-downs work well and careful thoughtful arguments do not. Like if the discussions were taking place as a back-and-forth of journal letters we would discuss things in a better way.

I hate the left tbh, always trying to condemn. It seems to be a hobby for some of them.