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by ad_hominem
2852 days ago
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Maybe they were born in 1988? Maybe they play the piano (88 keys)? Maybe they're a ham radio operator ("love and kisses")? Maybe they're a big Kill Bill fan (Crazy 88s)? Maybe they think it's a lucky number (Chinese culture)? There's a million possibilities[1] besides this baseless ad hominem attack in which you're implying they're a neo-nazi. This moral panic over white supremacists supposedly hiding under every bed is really tiring. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number) |
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A little bit of trivia: turns out in France a "département" is a country subdivision which receives two-digit codes, and it's quite common for people to include that in their online identity pseudonyms as a suffix. 88 is the Vosges department[0].
EDIT: Given the ambiguity, I do not support the use of the "88" thing at all, yet one cannot detract from the fact that cultural context and localization is a tricky subject. Even as a location thing I was not supporting it anyway as it's a terrible practice, being leaky information-wise.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vosges_(department)