This post concerns the blogger Thersites, a commenter on the WYD #trumpdupe blog. Thersites, I recently discovered, is a self-identified "shitposter".
Some background...
As per Wikipedia, "Kekistan is a fictional country created by 4chan members that has become a political meme and online movement". Futhermore "esoteric Kekism" AKA the Cult of Kek "is a term for the parody religion of worshipping Pepe the Frog". Pepe is a frog character who was embraced by the Alt-Right. Pepe is often drawn as Donald Trump.
"Shitposters" figure into this in that Kekistanis (denizens of the fictional Kekistan) identify as such. Shitposters see themselves as people who are "persecuted by excessive political correctness" and fight back via "shitposting".
| Shitposting is the act of posting large amounts of content of "aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality" to an online forum or social network, in some cases intended to derail discussions or otherwise make the site unusable to its regular visitors. (Wikipedia/Shitposting). |
I didn't know diddly about this until encountering this Tersites asshole. Apparently he is a proud "shitposter", Kekistani and Pepe admiring #trumpdupe.
| Thersites: Trump is a Kekistani, too! Woo-Hoo! FREE Kekistan! (9/28/2017 at 4:47am). |
Thersites links include one to a 42 second YouTube called "Pepe Trump MAGA Dance", which is an animated video that shows Trump as Pepe dancing. In celebration of Trump "winning" the presidency, I presume. The second link is to a minute and three second YouTube that shows a gathering of #trumpdupes (#KeepBannon rally on 4/15/2017) in which a speaker claims that Kekistanis (straight, White, male #trumpdupes) are oppressed. Then he asks for reparations while a Black gentleman films them with his camera and the "Kekistanis laugh. Possibly at the absurdity of what they're doing, although I suspect the purpose of all this is (at least in part) is to mock the Black Lives Matter movement.
Thersites obviously identifies with this group. Racist Alt-Right #trumpdupes who use the racist frog Pepe as their mascot. And did you know that Donald Trump himself retweeted a Pepe meme? He did, and not by accident either (the tweet is still in his feed). An act that should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that Donald Trump identifies with the Alt-Right and is a White Supremacist.
"@codyave: @drudgereport @BreitbartNews @Writeintrump "You Can't Stump the Trump" https://t.co/0xITB7XeJV pic.twitter.com/iF6S05se2w"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2015
Yeah, so I don't want to hear it any longer that Trump being a racist is a frenzy the media has whipped up. Not when he's admitted it (via Twitter). Trump is a Kekistani as Thersites points out.
By the way, despite being an ADMITTED shitposter (someone with the GOAL of derailing discussion and making "the site unusable to its regular visitors"), Thersites has the unmitigated gall to insist that I should "get out" (leave WYD).
| Thersites: Once, okay we get it. Every week, on and on ad naseum? GTF OUT! (9/25/2017 at 1:17pm). |
Right. Can you believe this asshole? I mean, yes, he is in the right place at WYD. In that the vast majority of commenters who congregate at WYD are #trumpdupes. But he does post frequently (many times in a row). 6 comments in a row in the sub-thread where he talks about Pepe, Kekistan and shitposting. The question is, why is he shitposting (being an asshole on purpose) on a site where most of the commenters agree with him? Probably because these people as just assholes PERIOD. That would be my best guess.
btw, Thersites was one of the racist morons who insisted that Black people have lower average IQs and it's genetic. They're all racist scumbags IMO.
