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He didn't call us idiots. He called us unempathetic. And I'd say that's been a fair assessment of a lot of the internet. I know that when I was on Reddit, I'd read a lot of comments that were filled with entitlement, people feeling they were owed something especially if that something was free, and very little empathy. For how much Redditors (and now that many of us have fled to Lemmy to build a new social media life, Lemmings) like to criticize the, "They're just lazy, I'm really struggling," mindset, they sure do like to ask for free things but complain if people treat them the same way.
It's not just the Internet. There is an irregular declension that is used all over the place. It was immortalized by Bernard Woolley in that pair of documentary programs Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister:
You see it everywhere. A common one goes like this: "I speak frankly, you're being harsh, he's an aggressive asshole".
Once you see that pattern of irregular verb conjugation in one place, you see it everywhere.