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Re:U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from Fre... by odessacubbage on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:20PM (#25781938)
also popular with edgy twitterposters and anons, and a large swath of online news-aware people under 40. there are plenty of sunday morning accelerationists for whom all these sentiments could more accurately reflect malaise and disenfranchisement from party politics that increasingly represent no one. personally i wouldn't grant many of these statements much more weight than 'subscribe to pewdiepie'

however as institutions dip their toes deeper into the open embrace of superficial intersectionality and antiracism, it should come as a surprise to no one that retrograde ideas about white identity begin to viscously resurface with greater frequency. my personal opinion is that it is a very bad time to repeat the economic mistakes of obama with an added veneer of identity justice. optimism makes me want to believe that good governance can heal our country, but more realistically, good governance is the one thing we truly do not make in america anymore.

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Re:U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from Fre... by hi5eyes on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:27PM (#25782022)
theres a terrifying amount of acc/horticulture/anprim edgy twitterposters that follow nick land @outsideness that have a large overlap (if not a circle) with neo nazi twitter
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Re:U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from Fre... by mcantelon on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:46PM (#25787119)
There's lot of edgy people on Twitter... lots of folks with hammers and sickles, ironic or otherwise, in their handles, despite the many documented atrocities committed by communist states.
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Re:U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from Fre... by pas on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:51AM (#25789786)
Tankies are true believers, just like Trumpists, or the typical soccer moms who picket outside Planned Parenthood, but when their daughter needs it they obviously use it, then back to picketing the next day.

"This time it will be different."

There are also various explanations of how and why the Holodomor just "happened", and it had nothing to do with communism/socialism/USSR/Stalin, or it was Nazi propaganda, etc. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/izcxbk/i_saw_... - with reputable sources such as sputniknews :| )

Though my favorite is the "Capitalism kills a lot more people" """"infographics"""". ( https://twitter.com/HasBezosDecided/status/12608739086995087... )

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Re:U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from Fre... by xg15 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:44PM (#25783936)
Are you saying antiracism is a bad thing?
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Re:U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from Fre... by Kompromisslos on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:30AM (#25789171)
If it's anti-White racism merely disguised as "antiracism", then yes.
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