• Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Funnily enough he used to be pretty left.

    It’s like this right wing conspiracy pipeline is a honeypot for pond scum that reveals who they really are.

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      10 months ago

      Populist rhetoric works because it offers seemingly simple solutions to complex problems and excuses behavior that would otherwise be unacceptable.

      Sometimes it’s even a good excuse, others just an outlet for hate and stress.

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        10 months ago

        He always struck me as one of those people who wasn’t, in his heart of hearts, actually left-wing, but rather just wanted to be counter-cultural. The culture has shifted around him and now if he wants to be counter-cultural it means being alt-right.