• TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    I got here about a year after the site was created and as a result I missed all the silver legion stuff and for the longest time I thought the silver legion stuff was a reference to the Silver Legion of America, aka the Silver Shirts, an American esoteric fascist organization that was active in the lead up to ww2.

    • Babs [she/her]
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      1 month ago

      I think that was the intent, but silver-legion is way funnier.

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        Oh, yeah I could see the original troll self-aggrandizing in that way (although the original silver shirts are in fact, extremely embarrassing) and then getting turned into a Nate Silver joke.