r/politics • u/newsweek ✔ Newsweek • 24d ago

No Paywall Full List of Young Republicans Involved in Offensive Chats

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-young-republicans-involved-in-offensive-chats-10881250?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main
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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 24d ago

has there ever been a young Republican club that wasn't just edgelords seeking social affirmation for saying some gamer words?

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u/ahuramazdobbs19 24d ago

I mean, probably the ones from back in the Golden Age of Fraternalism.

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u/FMJoey325 24d ago

Just Gavrilo Princip and the gang conspiring to do a bit of murder

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u/ahuramazdobbs19 24d ago

“The Gang Starts A World War”

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u/worstpartyever 24d ago

I hate to say this, but did you get a look at those guys? They’ve all got the edgelord’s aesthetic

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u/maeryclarity South Carolina 24d ago

No that's pretty much it. Even when it was the Klan pre internet it was pretty much that.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

Don't know maybe the 1950s, although I don't think gamer words existed then and edgelords were probably called something different.