Sometimes when the mood takes me, I troll conservative Americans with deep, pitch-perfect satire and I will drop a string of emojis with eagles and biceps with Liberian or Malaysian flags and shit in the last line of a comment post.

They have no clue I’m taking the absolute piss out of them.

I’m not going to justify it, although occasionally I do try and instigate sectarian slapfights amongst these people to create a hostile environment (e.g. when conservative media is cheering on the sacking of a “woke” university lecturer so I’ll go in on how cancel culture is good, actually, and how we must protect freedom by tightly restricting speech or otherwise we’ll end up opening the door to Big Government taking over, except I cloak my language so it’s much more subtle than that - generally I make a statement that uses all the right rhetoric but which is logically contradictory and which argues against their values and often it’s enough to get half of the people responding to agree with me while the other half is outraged and disgusted by me and the first group), but I have a penchant for mischief and sometimes I do it to blow off some steam. If I manage to create chaos and division amongst reactionaries in the process, that’s a perk, but honestly it’s just me doing tactical retreat into irony to preserve my sanity when confronted by the abject, banal horror that is news media and the discourse that surrounds it, like a cloud of flies converging around a pile of horseshit.