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"Attention Online Shoppers..."

By Scott Beauchamp

To say that 2016 was the year of the alt-right, which in many ways it indisputably was, is synonymous with calling it the year of the cargo cult. The alt-right’s emergence into public consciousness was facilitated by the internet—a platform that was developed by tech-utopia leftist baby boomers—and which communicates in the meme-heavy patois of hipster irony.

B U I L D I N G W A L L S | B U R N I N G B R I D G E S, “He does look like he’s the last hope...,” make vaporwave great again, August 28, 2016.
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DEC 19-JAN 20

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