Which tends to come first? I truly don't know, because considering the overlap on places like 4chan/8chan, Quora, and Reddit, I really wonder which the :le-pol-face: start with and which one is picked up later.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I remember when :trump-anguish: was first running against :hillgasm: one of the most common :le-pol-face: rallying cries around their god emperor was "He will make anime real!" and as soon as the election was over, they said "We elected a meme!" :so-true:

      Chan culture is all about being "ironic" until it's safe to be otherwise. I wonder how many :thicc-trump: voters from the :stupidpol: demographic really did imagine some brave new world where they'd get assigned child tradwife slaves.

      It sounds absurd, I know, but then again :jordan-eboy-peterson: , famously against social safety nets and basically government doing anything but killing and spying on people, once said that maybe :le-pol-face: may have to be assigned government "girlfriends" so they'd stop shooting up schools and so on.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I was :LIB: enough to have high high hopes, :pete: style, that after Obama was elected, that the Dubya years were over and that the post 9/11 madness was finally at an end.

          I don't recall any of my fellow Obama enthusiasts in my social circles being THAT into him, though. The "god emperor" thing seems more :frothingfash: than :maybe-later-kiddo: .

          But then again there WERE and STILL ARE :hillary: stans with donut emojis on their tweets that might fit your description.

          • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Had a guy in one of my classes who was sure that Obama was gonna end the war in Afghanistan, we just had to make sure to vote extra good

            Time is a flat circle resting on the back of a colossal, yet indifferent turtle