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      12 hours ago

      It’s nothing new these days. Basically, it taught me about the YouTube/podcast/male-coded media to Nazi pipeline. Basically, every time I started to defuse their bullshit, they’d just share a video at me by some rightoid influencer. It also taught me about the whole “ironic Nazi” thing. Probably the biggest thing I got out of it was being able to quickly pick up on the tells of nazi-coded speech. Stuff like hiding behind ‘jokes’, hiding your power level, etc. I find it a little difficult to convey, I guess it’s a little like the difference between reading about the planets and seeing them through a telescope (but a lot less beautiful). It just isn’t the same, and not matter how much reading you do, it’s not going to really prepare you to actually experience it.