I'm not saying I know exactly how the "de" came to be there and applied to effect the opposite of what we typically understand it to do in other circumstances - I am sure it is an eyeroll-GREAT story - but I think it's pretty safe to blame a bunch of stolid Oxbridge tossers and the French.
As I've mentioned before, one of the absolute failures of contemporary journalism is "civil" framing, and if you want an example, no one in the shitload of "respectable" journalists tasked with followup stories asked anyone involved "Why did you think it would be good to have a neo-Nazi give a commencement address?"
Imagine not only doing that^ but also taking MASSIVE BRIBES to do that from the most insidious lordly capitalist vermin in America and fully expecting fucking ANYone to think of you as anything other than a compromised neo-Nazi piece of shit. Like the absolute ubermensch villainy involved is breathtaking but what TOPS that is the utter hubris of expecting normal people not to burn your fucking house down with you in it.
For ultra-clarity, I am in no way advocating righteously pissed off people burn neo-Nazi Supreme Court justice Sam Alito's house to the ground. Pragmatically the last thing we want to give America's fascist movement is another martyred asshole.
I'm no hotshot Washington-beat journo but it just kind of feels to me if you could reasonably start any news story lede "Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito, who has made a career of showing disdain for established precedent law and who on multiple occasions has supported an overt fascist movement dedicated to ending the rule of law in the United States in favor of a unitary despot he personally supports because they both hope to ethnically cleanse America to make it a permanent monocultural herrenvolk state . . ." like anything in your sentence after that other than "resigned in disgrace" is pretty fucking pointless.
I have watched a fucking TON of basketball in my career as a person-who-watches-a-TON-of-basketball and I have seen a lot of really good teams but I'm not sure I've seen a pretty stellar team that comes out in the second half of back-to-back games and just COMMITS to sucking with quite the dedication as the #Twolves have given it in these first two games of the WCFinals.
If I was a Twolves fan I would be eating my own liver right now because I would feel you rope-a-doped me into getting my hopes up that you guys were a championship-caliber team and then you were like "I am gonna pass the ball to the circus clown in the second row for no reason."
Like if you're the Wolves, you went from downing the defending champs in 7 and looking like you were on top of the world to "There is no actual rational measure of how much you suck" in two games. That is a feat.
@Landonab@flexghost Were they considered "alternative"? I don't even remember how we delineated shit back then. We just thought they were a kick-ass rock band. Especially For You is a nigh-perfect album.
I put a reply on the fb post that said "Preemptively, don't be obtuse about this. You know exactly what I'm talking about," but an older guy replied to that and said basically "No, what are you talking about, I am old, are you OK BOOMERing me?" and I feel I may have stumble-posted a Rorschach test to determine some graded scale of self-awareness.