Putin has succeeded in making based look bad. This strikes at the heart of a lot of dude internet culture.
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Sociopathy being "based" works until you have literally Hitler. Are you going to post news reports about the discovery of Auschwitz with LMAO Based!!! on it? No of course not. You'll look like a dumbass.
Sociopathy == based only works in dull eras.
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Hitler was neither based nor a sociopath. He did watercolors fr chrissake.