america is so fucking based man

in any proper country that company at least gets forced to pay by the government then ordered to shut down forever due to wanton cruelty. all the employees get generous severance except whoever made that call. depending upon your view of carceral punishment there are a few ways to go with that guy.

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    One of the earliest uses of based is by 4chan users to describe things that were Nazi adjacent or fascist that celebrities and politicians would say and do. It was “based” because the idea is that they were doing the “right” thing even though it was unpopular often doing things like being ok with needless deaths because it also meant it pushed their fascist agenda. I think op is using it ironically in this case like those 4chan cretins use it.

    Since then it’s been co-opted as the general Internet meme and that’s how most people know it now.

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      I only know it as “I approve of this”, not “lol, I don’t approve of this, but I say I am to be hilarious”. This is the danger of adopting this Nazi Internetspeak to be funny.

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        Yes but then when someone says <clearly horrible awful thing> is based, it’s blatantly sarcasm

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          Except when it was on 4chan and it was actual Nazis just being Nazis. So no, not blatantly sarcasm.

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            Lol

            So many people here talking about 4chan who so obviously have no fucking clue what it’s actually like and just regurgitating this idea that every person, every single thing, every comment is always bad and nazi and the worst possible version of it that it could be. It’s soooo based

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              No one said that it is all like that, but enough of /b/ is so gross as to taint the reputation of the entire site. Allowing some of the stuff that is on there is enough guilt by association, even if some of the other boards have better discourse.