• MathiasTCK@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Hardly, the use of based this way is cringe.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/based

    (Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values. Synonym: unwoke based and redpilled My last account got banned for being too based.

    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      19 hours ago

      well that’s what it originally meant

      I’ve mostly seen it referring to other things, sometimes non-political things and sometimes political things but as a positive statement about something progressive