Too brilliant not to share.

Via Vox, this is trolling taken to a level of satire that requires sharing. Geoffery Elfwick, one of the wittier twitter trolls, took down the Guardian.

I unsubscribed and unfollowed from everything, and told myself outright: “You’re becoming a racist. What you’re doing is turning you into a terrible, hateful person.” Until that moment I hadn’t even realised that “alt-right” was what I was becoming; I just thought I was a more open-minded person for tolerating these views.

It would take every swearword under the sun to describe how I now feel about tolerating such content and gradually accepting it as truth. I’ve spent every day since feeling shameful for being so blind and so easily coerced.

US election day rolled around, and I was filled with dread. Trump’s win felt like EU referendum morning all over again – magnified by a hundred. Although I never shared any of this rubbish with anybody, I feel partly responsible. It’s clear this terrible ideology has now gone mainstream…

I haven’t yet told my wife that this happened, and I honestly don’t know how to. I need to apologise for what I said and tell her that I certainly don’t believe it. It is going to be a tough conversation and I’m not looking forward to it. I didn’t think this could happen to me. But it did and it will haunt me for a long time to come.

The wife is a fiction. Elfwick is a fiction: though, since he describes himself as a feminist dreamer and wrongskin, he is appears to be completely at one with the convergence. Until he moves into the uncanny valley and thinks that his reading blogs like this got Trump elected.

And the Guardian bought it. Put down your favourite beverage, lest you drop your drink as you laugh.

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