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1. 082349+v5[view] [source] 2020-06-06 22:02:57
>>dredmo+(OP)
sometimes I wonder if the cosplaytriot types are even aware that they're Googlebombing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_(funk_dance) has the semantics I had expected for the syntax.

It even made it across the Iron Curtain: https://youtu.be/QSc3uk8Q5w4?t=4881

(1986, so a bit later than 1984's Electric Boogaloo, and a bit earlier than the 1989 end of the wall)

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2. dredmo+df[view] [source] 2020-06-06 23:22:18
>>082349+v5
The alt-right usage etymology is ... convoluted, but dates to a gratuitously terrible film sequel ("Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo", 1984), and came to be a go-to reference for any sequel or return, here, with race war connotations:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/electric-boogaloo

Appropriation of language and symbology is quite common among similar movements.

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3. 082349+iS[view] [source] 2020-06-07 08:09:02
>>dredmo+df
Yikes on appropriation. I had been assuming the "Trump on a Tank" image was obviously parody, both from subject matter and from the black power fist on the tank (on the mudguard just behind the sprocket). Now I wonder if this may actually be a case of "any sufficiently advanced ideology is indistinguishable from satire"?
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