People are looking at a paragraph and, in their heads, creating a kind of "word cloud" based on word recognition and emotional response, and then reacting to the general idea of that (invented, insular, subjective) word cloud.

elon gets away with levels of fake fan far more egregious than that which the subjects of gamergate were accused of

Good God

the written constitution is a semiotic revolution against the blood-and-soil tyranny represented by the nativist oligarchs and their fraudulent pretenses. the citizen's inalienable rights have always flown in the face of the know-nothing mix of racist cowardice and desire to enshrine a new nobility.

Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile.

He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.

oh my god

The basis of Evangelicalism is that, in order to continue to be white supremacist, they've had to completely abandon ethics in favor of a religion based exclusively on soteriology.

People on the Left really do need to read Nineteen-Eighty-Four and grasp Orwell's description of 'doublethink'. Doublethink is one of the most useful political concepts ever devised. It is the basic mechanism underlying political reaction. From something I wrote years ago:

It’s only distinct from the far right’s reactionary nostalgia in that the forces being blamed are neoliberalism and capitalism rather than liberalism and racial pluralism. But the resentful paranoia about the modern world is unmistakable on both sides, even if certain explanations are taboo here.

among other things the look simulates a sexual dimorphism to exaggerate the distance between men and women and their distinct gender roles

also the cumbersome impracticality signals that a woman's place in public life is as a stationary object not a mobile participant