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We exist in an attention-scarcity environment, genuinely well thought-out ideas are a huge time investment for a lot of people when they could enjoy 5 entertaining memes by the time they finish reading the post
Rather than denounce this environment, I believe learning how to maneuver around it would be the better course of action, In that sense, I believe that ragebait can REALLY encourage political thought if you're able to provide the right stimulus. I made this edit to ragebait my self-satisfied "Marxist" friends and it got them to read Dewey's Critique of Marxism (the methodological problems of separating Darwinistic descriptions from ethical and political prescriptions)