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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Also exactly how Qanon started, it was just trolls trolling trolls until a non-troll found it and ate the onion (or chan) hardcore

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the online-style thing where you're only ironically into a thing, unless we both agree it's not ironic. But we don't do we? Or do we? We don't, of course we don't. I never did.

It's a bit nuts that we nuked the entire political system by weaponizing the way middle aged couples propose having a threesome.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your last sentence is the most insightful thing I’ve read here in a while!

[–] Sir_Fridge 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm very, very confused by that sentence. Please help

[–] subtext 3 points 10 months ago

The idea that politicians will say terrible things and get away with it by pretending they didn’t mean it, unless it gets positive reception from people who also think that terrible things, in which case they totally weren’t pretending about it.