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Weird question, but what does your username mean?
To me it appears to be Jew hater or Jew Phifhter 88.
in this case: no, they're just Filipino, and it seems to just be a contraction of Jupiter or something similarly banal. i think it would be prudent in the future to do a bit of double checking before we start accusing people of Nazis; you can easily check your assumption by just visiting their mastodon page, linked in the description of their kbin account.
Thank you for bringing some sanity to the discussion
Are we now accusing others of antisemitism based on nothing more than a few random letters? WTF?
88 at the end of a screen name is a well known Nazi dog whistle. It means"heil Hitler". The phenomenon has its own page at the southern poverty law center's website.
They're a Filipino. Not exactly an infamous source of antisemitists. And '88' may mean something in the west, but here in Asia it generally means nothing more than your birth year.