>In what way is it reminding you of that incident? It's just in group signaling. "Hey this reminds me of <vaguely related thing>" is a more polite way of sayi

>In what way is it reminding you of that incident? It's just in group signaling. "Hey this reminds me of <vaguely related thing>" is a more polite way of saying "look I know about X, I'm like you, gimme dat virtue points" You see this on literally every virtue points (i.e. up-vote) based form of social media that's big enough that any given participant can blend in with the crowd. The behavior is endemic these days you can't even post a picture of a rotten and falling down deck on the internet these days without some jerk derailing everything by dropping a link to the wikipedia page on the hyatt regency and then several more riding their coattails with quotes copied from the page. He probably doesn't even consciously realize he's doing it.