@t @lewdthewides all good :)
I think in general reasonable people can engage with each other regardless of what political or ideological priors they have going in, but the internet in general and social media in particular is almost completely optimized for turning reasonable people into unreasonable consumers of controversial content because that's what drives views and by proxy ad revenue (thankfully less of a problem here than some other places, but it can be difficult to deprogram someone who already comes into here with that mindset for better or worse)