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Is there a sadder, more pathetic, more wretched side-character who lives for the attention of celebrities than Ian Miles Cheong? He lives in Malaysia, but seems singularly devoted to MAGA. A movement that would bury him upside down in a hole if he ever tried to migrate there, legally or not.
I try to imagine what the day to day life of a person like that is. I imagine him living in utter squalor, with a flickering bare lightbulb swinging in the breeze above his head from the drafts spewing in through every crooked window frame of his shack. With his 100 open browser tabs for each of his fake Elon-sucking accounts. Suicidally-depressed except for the 8-second dopamine hit he gets on the occasions when Elon acknowledges his existence. A fungal infection of a human.
Also, lol:
That screenshot is all I know about this account, but surely thats satire right? Like I can imagine myself saying those things, but heavily rolling my eyes while saying it. Surely nobody says things like that with any sincerity?
That was my first thought as well, but goddamn has my 'willing to believe' meter been ground down to nearly nothing these days. Poe's law lives, and its phenomena are horrific.
Malaysia hosts multiple propaganda operations run by various state actors, so I'm not sure if the location of this particular account is of any particular significance.