i made the mistake of clicking on a r/news post today about a man in Algeria who killed a swiss tourist while screaming "this is for palestine" or something.

top comments were all hideous. one of them was "look what that guy did now they'll have to kill thousands more palestinians because of him" and it was just so fucking bleak. it wasn't a leftist making a statement it was someone celebrating. they were all celebrating ramping up of the genocide because of one unhinged person

racist comments from top to bottom. stuff that if it was about any other culture or ethnicity it would be instantly shut down and mass deleted

it was complete silence when the landlord murdered the palestinian mother and child. he was just "mentally unwell".

i want to believe it's all chatbots trained on hasbara talking points but i know there are living, breathing westerners behind most of it