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Jonny Appleseed

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6. Yeah I started a trend of greeting people among our circle of friends where we greeted each
Wed Apr 5, 2017, 12:39 PM
Apr 2017

other with Nazi salutes. I was into that juvenile anti-pc shock value comedy (if you can even call it that) back in 9th grade. That was before the "let's play" fad started using that rhetoric in a legitimately dangerous way, in the early years of online gaming culture. I was probably among the communities that would later form the alt-right tbh.

It's not like there are any photos of me doing it, and it only lasted a month, but it earned me the "affectionate" descriptor of being a Nazi among certain groups of people (it didn't help that I was big into military surplus too). But I didn't make much of an impact generally throughout highschool. I was that kind of kid that pretends he's a druggie or alcoholic to seem cool.

But whatever. Got woke. No harm no foul. Gives me a unique perspective I suppose.

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