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Is it just "personification"? That was my first reaction, until someone somewhere else suggested "metonymy".

Is it an example of metonymy?

Anyone who thinks otherwise lives in a curious onanistic hell hole of their own creating. They deserve to stay there, hands firmly over their ears and forever wearing a hat they made of aluminium foil to protect them from the invisible rays telling them how English is in fact used by real people in...