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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's political about gays

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's how /pol/ (and by extension, Bannon/Epstein/some stormfront users) were able to convince a generation of men to police the internet on their behalf. Sounds very convincing to centrists and previously apolitical people, had some success already in Hungary by the 2010s (which ended with Fidesz calling the resulting as apolitical art as humanly possible as "valueless, without any meaning"), and was the thing that ultimately convinced a generation of gamers to start a "consumer revolt" that was actually a right wing astroturf campaign.