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1. dredmo+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-06-06 23:22:18
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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2. 082349+5D[view] [source] 2020-06-07 08:09:02
>>dredmo+(OP)
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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3. _y5hn+WE[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-07 08:31:17
>>082349+5D
It's meta that sometimes gets people injured or killed. It's also a sort of natural balancing act.
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