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I remember when “Obama watches too much basketball” was a criticism that was lobbed from the both sides of the aisle.

It is, and it’s what their ally Musk is inciting. This used to be the kind of thing that was shocking, now it’s the outcome they’re driving toward. People need to really understand how far the goalposts have shifted — and that this is where we are in the U.S., too.

It totally matters and is important to note he's failing to persuade anything like enough key actors or enough of the public he'd need to really pull it off. No doomerism! But he's probably gonna try, one way or another, and the consequences of that are still immense.

A bit more about the anti-climate action editorial in drag as a report, from the place where I get to air my views at length:

"Turning Point Action, the political action committee arm of Turning Point USA... sent seven buses carrying 350 students to the Jan. 6 rally." www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

It's not a bug. It's a carefully crafted feature to prevent social organizing and cultivate devotion to a sole authoritarian leader. It is interesting the way the manosphere message changes according to the group targeted.

Every aspect of the manosphere is designed to keep men preoccupied and lonely. It's like the beauty and diet industry on steroids. Or fascism.

in truth, you do "see a lot of the same fights here," because there's ample precedent in US history for the kind of violence we're seeing in Belfast: Rosewood, Florida; Wilmington, NC; Mullin's hometown of Tulsa. in every case the murderers thought they were "trying to take their country back."

It’s an expression of their belief in hierarchy. Trump is at the top of their mental map of power, and so they feel they should yield to him much in the same way they imagine people lower than them should yield to them.