No, he's outraged that someone that frequents a tech forum regularly doesn't think to check what the "citation needed" was for and that their first instinct was to post outrage bait

Oh, that makes much more sense. I posted my comment before they elaborated on what they were saying, so the comment just said "Outrage bait, seriously: here's a screenshot.", which seemed like a direct response

Yeah, I thought it was obvious but it clearly wasn't (I asked an LLM and it reached the conclusion you did as well) so I elaborated.

I don't think anyone cares.

The "fla" is pronounced with french a sound, as in "ah". The "eur" sound as in "murder"

Probably what we usually call "soft science" so political science and similar