I tend to be opposed to heavy handed filtering of social media for fear of opinion manipulation, but whenever I dip my toe outside of my carefully curated bubble (say, with a search for comments on Ocasio-Cortez) I lose faith in human civility.
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I didn't mean you specifically, it's a figure of speech I tend to use. I didn't mean to imply that you don't listen to people. People who need others to listen to them have something at stake.
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I did not understand you in this way. But I notice that urge to seek attention in myself, and I think that some of the meanest trolls are motivated by a stronger version of that. It is not a useful motivation.
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