• papalonian@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What’s with all the garbage fake communist quotes from NASCAR drivers in the meme page lately?

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      1 year ago

      It’s called “The Ghost of Ol’ Dale Earnhardt” and it was started in 2017 as pushback against alt-right people trying to make everything from the American South seem ultra right wing.

      I don’t really get the point but it seems like left leaning people in the American South find it funny?

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        1 year ago

        explains the point perfectly and then claims to not get it 🤨

        But yeah, you don’t have to be from the American South to find it funny. Personally I’m from the European North and find it hilarious 😄