A huge percentage of "left infighting" online has nothing to do with the left and nothing to do with politics whatsoever. Drama addiction is real and social media provides a perfect vehicle with which to feed it. It's mundane masturbatory self-indulgence.
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You can see this in the frenetic, feeding frenzy-like energy people get when one clique is going at someone. It's got nothing to do with the issues they're pretending it's about, it's about securing a neurochemical hit they've come to crave.
Everyone knows people like this in real life. Add in the 'like' and 'share' functions provided by social media which are literally designed to trigger the reward center of the brain, add in the thrill of private group chat gossip (they always use group chats), and it's far worse.
Combine all these factors with the very important values leftism upholds and you've got a bunch of social media drama addicts publicly posturing online for what they pretend are noble reasons, when really they're just garden variety addicts chasing another hit.
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