The phenomenon, a competitively uploaded departure from reality, is difficult to explain in terms of mere politics and actual, real-world policies. We appear to be in the realm of… well, something else.

Update 2:

Pst314 brings rumblings from academia, where the clever people gather:

That would be this chap here:

Assistant Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life at @uoregon tells Trump supporters to kiII themselves

Any comment @uoregon? pic.twitter.com/hwK0qhH9b1

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 7, 2024

Says Mr Serrato,

When they tell you who they are, believe them. As I’m told the kids say.

I mean, if a spiteful, childish, leftist ideologue announces to the world, on camera, that his political fixations are much more important to him than his supposed loved ones, his family and lifelong friends, and that he wishes death on them for daring to disagree with him, then I see no reason to assume that he must mean something other than what he’s actually saying, having thought about it and filmed it, and having then shared it with the world.

Where students might see.

But hey, pronouns in bio.

As seen, for instance, here, these are not things said and done reluctantly, in some momentary fit of anger, or under duress. This is something that’s been considered, chosen, rehearsed, and then willingly shared. Something that Mr Serrato feels emboldened to do, presumably because many of his peers will be saying much the same things. As if it could have no negative repercussions.

Happily, and somewhat surprisingly, he was wrong, on this occasion at least, and has, it seems, been placed on “administrative leave.”

Update 3:

In the comments, a recurring motif is the howling of progressive women who are seemingly unable to comprehend how a society reshaped to accommodate their fever dreams may not appeal to everyone. As if they, and their psychology, weren’t part of the equation.

With the above in mind, readers may find the following instructive, albeit in ways the speaker, Danielle Mann, doesn’t intend:

BREAKING: Danielle Mann, a teacher at @TalawandaHS in Ohio was placed on administrative leave after she filmed an unhinged video of herself on school grounds ranting about the election, suggesting that men who voted for Trump are unsafe to be around.

These are the people… pic.twitter.com/WVsIoZfj51

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 8, 2024

You see, she needs to know where you live. And you have to wear an identifying bracelet. And hey, who could possibly dislike the idea of these bedlamites having the leverage they crave? A world they would find congenial, shaped in their image, according to their compulsions.

Oh, and yes, she’s a high-school teacher. Influencing other people’s children. Every day of the week.

Consider this a post-election open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

I imagine much of his difficulty lies in the need to be seen holding fashionable and therefore statusful opinions, as determined by his peer group, and the illogical nature of the opinions currently in fashion. He wants to be seen as being “inclusive,” as he puts it, even though the consequent position is fundamentally incoherent.

And so we get the pinhead dance. According to which, cross-dressing men have every right to enter women’s changing rooms, and women who object can… er, choose not to use them. Or choose to flee, provided they do it politely.  So as not to cause offence.

We must, it seems, be sensitive. Albeit unilaterally.

Maddening and slippery as Mr Harris Voter is, I think the exchange above is quite revealing. It does show the contortions required of the type. It also suggests that it would be unwise to rely on such creatures.

Ladies, they’ll sell you out in a heartbeat.

If nothing else, the exchange highlights how an urge to seem like a good and progressive person, a caring and inclusive person, can be entirely at odds with actual goodness or anything approaching coherence. Such that the pretence, the preoccupation with how one seems, if only to one’s equally pretentious peers, entails not caring – at all – about women and girls who would rather not share an intimate space with mentally ill men and opportunist perverts. 

As this chap says in reply to Warren Smith’s original post on X:

This is not a trivial point.

Update, via the comments:

Oh, and if Mr Harris Voter’s opinions on What Women Should Be Happy To Put Up With sound vaguely familiar, you may be thinking of Mr Dolatowski, the cross-dressing chap mentioned here previously, and who insists that he isn’t “a threat if I use the bathroom,” and who tells us, emphatically, “I know I’m not a threat to anyone.”