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4. Yep. The obsession with "wokeness", "purple-haired SJWs", etc. That is "mainstreaming", where...
Sun Dec 18, 2022, 08:09 PM
Dec 2022

...ever more extreme alt-right material is plagiarized from 4Chan/8Chan/whatever-the-hell-they-call-it-now, airbrushed so that it's a little less ugly, and then made into old wine in new bottles, as we see here. None of this garbage is new or original. It started at places like r/Incels (now banned) and the various websites, some now defunct, owned by MRA/PUAs like Roosh V. The only thing that might be called "original" about the mainstreaming process is how it is seemingly randomly broken up and rearranged, like making sentences in a word game. Just string together words like "SJW", "purple hair", "woke", "George Soros", "groomers", and "Democrat Party". Demonizing and dehumanizing the political process couldn't be easier.

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