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Why does have an emoji on this site? (hexbear.net)
submitted 7 months ago by stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Honest to god, it was ingrained into my head as a child that he wanted to kill anyone who used a computer. But seeing how ridiculous that sounds today and how it sounds eerily similar to any critique of capitalism, I’m thinking he has parts of a communist ideal.

It really looks just like someone who could be a radical leftist but decided to become a fascist at the last minute. And it’s also so fucking absurd it helps me understand why there’s a guy that thinks everything big is an op

I guess I’m basically asking how he is read by the hexbear powers that be

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[–] drinkinglakewater@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago

To me the Kaczynski emoji represents a cynical and nihilistic desire to abandon civilization and live in the woods. It's used ironically when one is presented with bleak details about modern life and technology, not to indicate that Kaczynski is correct, but that something is depressing enough it implies the poster is briefly lowered to Kaczynski's awful politics.