• Sixty@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    That was the point IIRC. 4chan /pol/ came up with the idea to ruin the OK hand gesture because it was ridiculous and funny to them.

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      1 month ago

      Thankfully my friends know I would never mean this because this ours one of my default emoji. Unless it’s specifically the white one and not yellow, in which case, if one of my friends used white emoji I’d definitely question them directly on it.

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      1 month ago

      It’s literally the first time I’m reading of this.

      Damn, there are benefits to not being terminally online I guess

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        1 month ago

        I go see what the fascists are saying directly in their safe spaces once and awhile instead of hearing about it 2nd+ hand. Do not recommend.

        To be more specific: The sanitized idea in their non-verbatim words (I think this was in the lead up to the first Trump campaign?) was to see if “leftists” would let them ruin an already long established funny hand gesture to the point anyone who wasn’t white nationalist would stop doing it out of fear.

        Then alt right grifters picked it up and it kinda worked…if you let them have that win.