Some people are just at a point in their development where scoring points against the outgroup is the most satisfying thing. I wish I had an easy answer for how to help people cause the least injury to themselves and others as they go through that.
Ironically, this argument applies to itself, i.e. many people on Twitter are not doing this, and some even strive to "steelman" opposing views. (There is a fundamental asymmetry though: more sophisticated views are harder to understand, thus harder to spread.)
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