(I am still working but I need to remove this thought from my head to make space for work thoughts)

Following up on this, I’m realizing that the term “edgelord” may mean something in my head that is not exactly what it means to other people

My mind’s concept of “edgelord” is not “says ‘politically incorrect’ things to piss people off,” it’s “talks like a supervillain and/or Nietzschean ubermensch and/or fascist dictator”

Often people do both of those things, but the latter is a lot more general – for me it’s not the politics that make an edgelord, it’s the Nietzschean pettiness, the “everyone who I don’t like is a Lower Kind of Person, and the Lower Kinds of People will be killed or enslaved when the future arrives, starting with that loathsome worm of a barista who took too long to make my coffee this morning" attitude

Maybe “edgelord” isn’t the word for this but it’s definitely a thing