“I went to places where people congregate for this kind of thing and was surprised there weren’t people calling it out”

Well DUH. The normal people see that shit and don’t bother to register an account on the forum to post. And if they do, the mods removed it. How is that surprising at all? There are numerous instances on Lemmy that have the same behaviour(albeit for normal hobbies). Are you really surprised that in the Conservative instances it’s not wall to wall “you guys suck”?

This is just confirmation bias. You found what you were looking for while actively searching it out.