Current Events > "based" is alt-right slang to describe prominent alt-right figures

(+) Yeah! (+)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/24/donald_trump_alt_right_white_supremacist_supporters_appropriate_based_from.html

I spent some time perusing r/The_Donald recently and noticed that its posters use one particular word a lot as a term of praise: based. (Well, they use several particular words a lot, including ****, *****, and ****) This post praising Vladimir Putin as "Based Putin" for understanding the dangers of the global sharia conspiracy.

Complex: What's your definition of "based," because you say that with everything. What does that mean?

Lil B: Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.

So what we have here, then, is a word that was created amid an addiction epidemic in urban communities being adopted by bigoted fans of a presidential candidate who has demonstrated unprecedented contempt for, and ignorance of, said communities.

Should the word "based" be modded on gamefaqs for promoting alt-right approved people?
---

No, we don't need to add more moddable words
---

...I don't believe that man/woman/child actually knows what "based" means.
---

Based pigzig!
---

FightingGames posted...

Should the word "based" be modded on gamefaqs for promoting alt-right approved people?

If I read anything today that's dumber than this, I'll be surprised.
---