Others have said it, but those going to the stadium aren’t primarily there for the sport itself. They are there for the communal experience. Fandoms are the secular culture version of religions, and stadiums are the cathedrals.

There are silver linings everywhere, if one knows where to look.

As I saw elsewhere, “a true 1 out 1.”

I’m in the group you’re calling weird.

For me at least, it is a function of the issues at the center of the discourse being polarized in ways I don’t understand, and then the identities of so many are lined up on those binaries. It’s just not me.

Not besieged, more adrift between combatants.

Somehow both of these resonate. It’s incredible. It gives “too insecure to be diabolical, but plenty unstable to be dangerous.”