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      Maybe I’m reaching here but is it because it’s rigidly structured, based on a monarchy, it’s about war and people tend to associate it with high class and IQ. Not saying it’s inherently reactionary or that most people who play it are Fascist or anything, but I can see a few things that would reinforce the idea that hierarchy and high IQ is more important. Just my 2 cents, nobody can know for sure tho

      • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        I don’t think the association to monarchy has much to do with it. The names of the pieces come from a time of monarchs but I doubt that anyone on any side of the political spectrum is reading much into it these days. The association to high IQ and being “high class” or “civilized” will probably draw nazis like flies to shit though.

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          That also neatly explains programmers, and in particular programmer forums like Hacker News or pre-2015 reddit.

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    lol he is the one that comes up in my mind when someone say that being good at chess =/= being smart

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    As they say, scratch a liberal… honestly? I can have some basic empathy for basement-dwelling or blue-collar reactionaries and even Nazis who are misled from their shitty circumstances (though they still go in the cuck pit). But these kinds of privileged libs, who flip to Nazism at the slightest inconvenience, are the worst kinds of humanity IMO.

    Also, that’s a sad-looking flag. Between the shiny, thin fabric it’s made of, and all the fold marks, looks like they printed their shitty logo on a garbage bag and called it a day.

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    Yeah, Kasparov is a fascist shitlib, but how can you say he joined the RVC? He posed with a flag.