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misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 02:49 PM Sep 2016

Haaahaa! "Pepe’s post-debate identity crisis: Online alt-right turns on Donald Trump.."

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/27/pepes-post-debate-identity-crisis-4chan-ditches-donald-trump-after-his-presidential-debate-fiasco/

TUESDAY, SEP 27, 2016 12:41 PM CDT
Pepe’s post-debate identity crisis: Online alt-right turns on Donald Trump after his presidential debate fiasco

Despite finding Donald Trump’s performance unsatisfactory, 4chan and Reddit users reportedly banded together to manipulate an estimated 70 online polls to make it seem as if the Republican presidential nominee had won the first presidential debate at Hofstra University on Monday.

As one user correctly noted on 4chan’s politics-focused thread, “/pol/ has enough manpower to change the outcome of a poll with 1.3 million votes.
“Trump won,” another wrote. “MSM in denial but the numbers don’t lie.”

On Tuesday morning, however, the anonymous users awoke to a combination of debate hangover and identity crisis. The Daily Beast pinpointed the alt-right’s tidal shift to Trump’s suggestion that the Democratic National Committee hack might have been perpetrated by “someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.”

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“The very reason we’re hearing all this post-debate discussion of biased moderators and microphones not working is spin for the Trump loss,” another conceded.

Perhaps the most noteworthy admission came from a user who openly acknowledged the big scary alt-right’s satirical (and inflammatory) edge: “CTR shills still not realising [sic] that pol is a board of satire and our only mission is to meme the retarded manchild to the white house for the lulz.” So: Now we know."



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Haaahaa! "Pepe’s post-debate identity crisis: Online alt-right turns on Donald Trump.." (Original Post) misterhighwasted Sep 2016 OP
Poor, abused Pepe. Buzz Clik Sep 2016 #1
Really is too bad Pepe got caught up in the Party of use & abuse misterhighwasted Sep 2016 #2

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
2. Really is too bad Pepe got caught up in the Party of use & abuse
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 03:01 PM
Sep 2016

Now he's wearing the racist label..gee it all seemed like innocent fun..then this happened...

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