>>2,3I know you're joking and all, but my schoolteacher friend was literally just talking to me about how many kids are identifying with the alt-right. She told me about how she had to lecture a kid wearing ``frog paraphernalia'' about how it's not appropriate to blurt out in math class that women hate math, social justice wants to make us all dumb, etc., etc.. Basically dumb teenagers being dumb teenagers, to be fair, but I'll be damned if it doesn't sting.
I mean, I always thought the whole idea, even prior to when that stupid term ``alt-right'' was coined and I simply thought of it as the kind of shallow, post-rand reactionary virtue signalling that tryhard red boarders blurted out on imagereddits to make themselves feel like the fitted in with their internet peers that it was. It stings the way that it stings when people talk about these tv shows I've never heard of, Silicon Valley/Mr. Robot/whatever, that apparently glorify computer programming in some annoying, condescending way like the way NOVA injects cinematic CGI into a documentary about physics like the audience couldn't appreciate our natural world unadulterated by Hollywood explosions. Even though I never identified with it, even liked the kind of embarassing nonsense brewing in the imagereddits, I still feel like I was a part of it. I was, after all, there even at the beginning, although I was dismissing them the whole time. I know it can't be helped, but to see these young'uns basically appropriating one of the few things that are actually close to me like it's just a token. The whole pepe thing was misguided and stupid, and the red boards were always filled with a bunch of norms, but in that crowd of norms were basically just like me: emotionally dense, neurotic, alienated, bitter, and sad. And to see what became of it, a shallow token, a bunch of retarded, ironic imagery--from day one I knew this was gonna happen, but I'm still astonished how horribly right I was, that this is the logical conclusion to the kind of meaningless bullshit I did in my youth, that this is basically our Just Desserts.