Last week in right-wing trolling
Here's what you may have missed from the worst people on the internet
Future President DeSantis’s Secretary of Education wants you to know that your concerns about fascism are ridiculous.
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Meanwhile, Chris Rufo is out here platforming a “friendly critique” of his takeover College of Florida written by a guy named Curtis Yarvin a/k/a Mencius Moldbug.
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But who is Curtis Yarvin, you ask? Well, he’s an extremist who wants to destroy democracy as we know it.
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Unfortunately, this isn’t really new. Yarvin was financially backed by Peter Thiel for years, and he’s been mainstreamed into the GOP thanks to guys like JD Vance and Blake Masters along with a variety of right-wing trolls.
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You may not think we’re in an existential fight for the soul of the nation here, but the right certainly does!
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Russian, Chinese and Iranian and right-wing trolls are never to blame with this guy. Why is that?
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You have to be extremely far down the rabbit hole to believe COVID-19 was secretly released to hurt Trump politically, but these are the people who say the left has Trump Derangement Syndrome...
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If Black History Month seems Woke, you might be a racist.
New outrage just dropped.
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Look, by all means, have this fight, Steve. I’m here for it.
Imagine publishing a deep fake video of the president (without even labeling it as fake) and calling yourself a news site. It’s truly incredible, but The Post Millennial did it. Twitter let them.
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That’s it. I included as much as I could! Until next time…