I'm honestly really thinking of joining Twitter, while free speech is available there, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm betraying my cause by giving Elon Musk clicks after his birth rate rants.
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It's a somewhat newer meaning (rather than the old psychology jargon meaning). It's the unproductive act of attempting to read into the thoughts and the speculation on their psychological state, motives and thoughts of someone else. That's another meaning that 'psychoanalyze' has taken. You're ranting about my psychological state, going on about cope and what I apparently dislike, attributing motivation to my 'deflecting' and so on. (Now I have as well engaged in this to some degree, speculating on your sexuality, but I didn't start it.)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychoanalyze (seen used this way in some of the examples) https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=psychoanalyze
You can admit your error at any time. You may have been unfamiliar with this meaning and use of the word, but that's ok. English has a lot of words (as you've proven in your essays), we can't be expected to keep up with all of them. Might be a good idea to do a quick search and check though if a word or its use seems unfamiliar to you in future though, before claiming it was used incorrectly, and that that implies something about another's intelligence.
The likes and dislike comment was in reference to this line from you:
Not the butt-parade stuff. But nice try. Intellectually dishonest (or forgetful), but a nice try. Perhaps it is you who should go back and reread what has been said, because between the butt stuff and this comment, you jumped straight to the butt stuff for some reason, even though that would make no sense in light of the other things I'd said.
Because 90% of it, as already established, is irrelevant and tangiential.