It was depressing to see their fall from excellent independent journalism to whatever this is. They jumped feet first into the culture wars and completely abandoned journalism.
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Seventy years later and Nazis still haven’t figured out how to be funny.
To be fair, educating yourself on what right wing nutters are doing these days, how they communicate and how they try to brainwash our kids into joining their cult of evil is pretty damn useful journalism.
Sure, they’re not reporting from the front lines of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, but it still has merit.
It was depressing to see their fall from excellent independent journalism to whatever this is. They jumped feet first into the culture wars and completely abandoned journalism.
Hmm, let’s take a look.
To be fair, educating yourself on what right wing nutters are doing these days, how they communicate and how they try to brainwash our kids into joining their cult of evil is pretty damn useful journalism.
Sure, they’re not reporting from the front lines of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, but it still has merit.
The article is 5 years old, so I don’t take much issue with it, but Pepe has been reco-opted by the original artist and I hardly see it used in a right wing context anymore.
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I pretty much only see alt-righters use it these days.
I see it on both sides but I don’t consider it anything other than a meme. It’s the context of its use that might make it alt right imo