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I really think people should stop saying "alt right" for anyone more conservative than Bernie Sanders. Alt right is an actual thing, and the trick of calling a
by robertlagrant 2y ago
I really think people should stop saying "alt right" for anyone more conservative than Bernie Sanders. Alt right is an actual thing, and the trick of calling a mild thing an awful thing stopped working a few years ago.
- tsimionescu 2y agoElon has retweeted things about The Great Replacement and anti-vax conspiracies. He is very much on the alt right, not "slightly right of Bernie Sanders".
- defrost 2y agoHe did grow up with the original unexpurgated Ag Pleez Deddy *. Not that's any excuse but that was how the twig was bent. * Original being more or less contemporous with the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure which lampooned the times.
- robertlagrant 2y agoHard to know without citations what that means in practice. And retweets? I don't know. I like every YouTube video I watch regardless of whether I like it, so I know what I've watched. Things that you could do accidentally with a thumbslip should only have a certain weight attached, and being quick to reach for a description that includes people who want Jewish people dead should be done cautiously.
- smsm42 2y ago> quick to reach for a description that includes people who want Jewish people dead Never heard him being called Columbia University or Harvard student.