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Ex-fascists of lemmy, what made you escape the alt-right pipeline? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

Believe it or not they did for a bit around ~2015 or so, the "why are you sjws so sensitive, I'm just kidding" era. And I fully thought it was irony, I actually was kidding.

Then the election happened and they all pulled their faces off to reveal grinning skulls underneath, and i experienced that moment from Blade where the guy realizes he's the only human in a vampire rave

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I never went further right than voting democrat, but I used 4chan occasionally for a good decade and I'm convinced that support of Trump's campaign on there was well-understood to be a running joke until people unaware it was a joke started joining to participate. I'll admit I wasn't using it much anymore at all by that time, but when I saw comments about Trump support start popping up the first couple months my thought was "this is hilarious". The idea of actual Trump supporters existing was not something I was capable of imagining at that time.

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