not to hand it to nazis but they were clever with picking 88 as their dogwhistle number huh

  • this_dude_eating_beans [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    66·
    3 months ago

    Me as a kid, putting 88 in all my screen names because of the year I was born, wondering why complete strangers would instant message me with shit like “HELL YEAH BROTHER HH” i was like huh you guys really like hulk hogan

  • tane6@lemm.ee
    452·
    3 months ago

    Those alt parks accounts are more or less Qanon for libs. I hate them all.

    • EndRedStateSubsidiesEnglish
      191·
      3 months ago

      Except for all the damn facts and reality like the Republicans actually wanting to sell national parks for mining.

      • HumongousChungus [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        3 months ago

        Fox News sometimes takes a break from the moral panics to cover reality. Still, the only one of these Alt Pages that actually performs a revolutionary reimagining of its function is the People’s CDC. Doing anything useful means you’re an enemy of the next Democratic administration looking to adopt Republican policies; in contrast these are just meme pages run by people who used to have federal jobs

  • propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    3 months ago

    Ok, I’m a ham and I know the usage of 88, but I would be suspect of a post by a national parks account using it because it isn’t a ham radio account. Context matters.

  • ANarcoSnowPlow [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    3 months ago

    So, this seems to be the case, but I’ve never seen anyone use anything but 73. Or “Good Business.” But I’ve only been a ham for a few minutes.

    I will say that most normies have no idea about Nazi weirdos and all the symbols they love.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    Alt National Park Service is active on Bluesky. It is possible whoever runs the account is a naïve normie and sincerely didn’t know anything about 88 or 14. That would surprise me but it’s possible. Still - I wonder if in the following days that account suddenly says something like “IQ is NOT a myth. There are clear differences in…”

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    Ninja edit

    Hmm… I thought the Bluesky account had maybe ~30K followers. I was all wrong about that. They are a top account. They have 881K followers. Now I sort of expect them to make “obvious” race science claims in the coming weeks.

    https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social