Just got a bit of a ringside peek at the far-right crazymaking industrial complex, and wow is it crazy. I only saw the Hawking radiation effects from outside the event but the headspace inside the black hole has to be utter insanity.
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When you take to severely abusing language for hostile use, all the normal non-literal aspects become suspect: allegory, irony, jokes, wordplay, any sort of figurative speech, it all has to be suspended. That stuff is for people with enough mutual trust to talk like humans.
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When dealing with wingnuts, you have to use language in “safe mode.” Either keep it absolutely simple, literal, and precise, OR go for over-the-top heavily labeled/hashtagged figurative speech. Any unspoken subtext/context WILL be exploited in a maximally hostile way.
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Another big sign is a kind of hyper-rationality inside a bubble. Every wingnut fantasy entails a closed inferential space with a weird axiomatic basis. If you hear “Soros,” for eg, just walk away. The discourse is past an uncrossable event horizon past which light cannot escape.
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