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Its getting pretty tiresome for people to host super-alt-right events and then claim that they're moderate or politics-free. If your event is called "BasedCon" then you're knee-deep in politics and those politics are not moderate.

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Pretty much. Core to the belief system of any extremist view is the idea that its adherents represent the repressed views of "real" people (be they traditionalist christians or proletarian laborers). No one shows up and puts a label on themselves or their movement saying "We need radical social and political change to meet the needs of my obscure niche internet community!"

> represent the repressed views of "real" people

This seems to have at least some basis in fact, given that the polls have missed the mark when Trump is on the ballot. Pollsters are already grumbling about how they're going to get any sort of accurate predictions for the 2024 election.

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