• @[email protected]
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    No he had plenty of time to educate himself but instead doubled and tripled down. Also his username ends in 88 which has been the most unsubtle Nazi dog whistle since the invention of usernames and the internet.

    • fatalicus
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      41 month ago

      If you look a bit around in this thread, someone linked an article that mentions he was born in 1988.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        He didn’t have to put it in his username.

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          Neither do the other thousands or millions of people who do so, but it’s not a particularly uncommon thing and it’s likely enough that (birthdate) is the reason it’s there. I’ve got my birth year (not '88) in my username for some sites because the bare username was already taken

    • @sprack
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      11 month ago

      Isn’t 88 considered extremely lucky in Chinese culture?

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        You honestly think that’s what he was going for? Someone who grew up in a culture pretty heavily insulated from that but steeped in “former” Nazi ties?

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          Not only is 88 considered auspicious in his native culture, he was also born in 1988. Normally, yes, be wary of the 88 dog whistle, but without further evidence it looks like a nothing-burger in this case.

        • @sprack
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          I think he’s more likely fascist than a Nazi, given the differentiator being the racial purity part. He lives and works in Switzerland, but was born in Taiwan and educated in the US.