On my older blog that was much more popular ~20 years ago, I had people who absolutely hated me yet read every post and commented on some of them. I never understood why they kept reading, especially so religiously. If I despise someone I generally just stop reading them. That’s even true for Ian Welsh, who is my ideological nemesis. These days I don’t read anything of his except if someone links to it and I need to endure it to understand the argument. (Incredibly redundant, though, as it’s usually just Putin worship.)

Why spend so much time reading the work of someone you hate?