These comments irk me as well. Most of them could add substantive material to the discussion simply by tacking on a few sentences -- you can still start the comment with "Water is wet", but then explain specifically which elements of the story you feel are history repeating itself. And maybe link us to a few of those historical parallels so we can get a sense of how these things tend to evolve over time, or discuss the nuances of the similarities/differences.

Anyways, thank you for calling out low-value discussion. It would be amazing if we could raise the bar a bit.

That ship has sailed my friend. Comments like this have been proliferating for some time. And then they take off on their own uninteresting threads like you see on Reddit, with people just repeating low-effort meme responses on and on and on.

It even has its own useless follow-up comment: "Frozen water?"

We are duty bound to downvote low effort shit-posts.