I now want to actively reduce my involvement in shit like this because it's a waste of time.
Yes. I realised this a while ago.
The blue pill is obviously living like a normie and consuming content
The red pill is realising that everything, including morality, is controlled by megacorporations through propaganda and everyone only believes what they are told to believe
The black pill is not caring and getting on with your life and being productive while everyone else tears themselves apart over meaningless bullshit.
Corporations love it when people fight over dumb shit. When I went above that, I started doing much better. I got more work done on my game and other personal projects in the last month than in the entire year before it.
Seeing well-reasoned and nuanced takes on discussions can be helpful for getting insight into the world and I feel like actively participating in those sorts of discussions can train our logical deduction, improving us as people. But the political shit-flinging that is modern political discourse is just a circlejerk, and whether you fall on the left or right of the "culture war", you've been played. Everyone who matters stopped caring a long time ago.
The silver lining in all this is that the vast majority of this political stuff is destined to go nowhere, so you're not missing out on anything by not participating and there's a very low chance that inaction is going to result in some sort of dictatorship or cyberpunk dystopia or whatever. Companies know what makes money, and it's in their best interests to mostly maintain the status quo. They want people to suffer somewhat under their greed, but they know they can't push it too far either, or people will revolt, change the law, or otherwise restrict and punish them, which they don't want. Companies will "get woke" to flare up the culture war, but will never actually make any critical decisions that involve any real risk - for instance, they may promote the works of a talentless artist to "celebrate diversity", but won't ever invest large amounts into it. It will only ever be an advertising stunt with an appropriate budget, no serious money will ever go into something like that. By stirring the pot like this they always win - either people "boycott" them for "getting too woke", which never works because boycotts haven't been effective for over a century, or they mindlessly clap like seals and "celebrate the diversity" by buying the product. In both cases, the company gets free revenue and advertising, and remains relevant. The only winning move is to not play their stupid games.
Of course, very rarely you get companies who genuinely believe in some sort of moral higher order or whatever. Either they are super woke to the core, or on the other side of the fence, they are "christian businesses" that "don't hire gays" or whatever. In both cases, they already don't care what anyone thinks and it's only a matter of time before their ideological stance causes problems with the reality of doing business and they either adjust their corporate philosophy to compensate, or collapse. The correct move here is to also not play, since time will solve the issue automatically, and since screaming about it online isn't going to convince anyone of anything.