You are engaging quite a lot in this post kid. A bot farm would use multiple accounts for that.
[...] Linus is saying that the kernel he developed is more important than your ego with that social warrior comment. [...]
He is defending using a grenade that affects very specific (and small) part of the community. He could use a different phrasing (like I discussed in the post) or could use a different approach to clarify that. But he choose to use this attack.
This says something, and this is political. Which is the point of the post.
[...] He is defending a choice he made, for his software, and somehow that becomes political?
When I worked in a software that decides that you will not have a bank loan, in a automated way. I as a engineer took a political decision. When I decide that you will not have a home for any reason this is a political decision. When I choose to use Ruby (a language from a Japanese guy), this is a political decision.
You either see the political implication or is yet to see it.
This is the point of the post. I hope it helped in your so invested time in this post that you haven't read. But is so eager to comment.
Have you ever even used Linux? Just curious, [...]
Dude, this is your argument? Really? You can do better. Ask your mechanical parrot of preference for a better argument :D