• Daniel Jackson
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    1 year ago

    4chan is just a bunch of people pretending to be racist/homophobic/… for the lulz. Only a minority are hardcore trump supporters, neonazis, …

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      My issue is even if that’s true it kind of doesn’t matter because it’s making the people who are ACTUALLY racist/homophobic/name your bigotry flavor feel comfortable enough to be genuinely horrendous. Fucking with the Overton window like that ain’t cool.

    • @Candelestine
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      51 year ago

      It’s also just generally much easier to have and express extremist views when you’re 14 years old. That shit usually gets unpalatable as your brain matures though, and you figure out why we don’t actually live like the rest of the animal kingdom.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      I’m more convinced the majority of crazy posts are by disinformation trolls that plague all social media now.

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        21 year ago

        I simultaneously miss AmITheAsshole and think that it’s almost all either made up for karma farming or people shitposting to make some marginalized group look bad.

        Or weird sex stuff. Definitely a lot of it is some person’s weird sex thing.

    • IninewCrow
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      41 year ago

      disinformation, deflection and plausible denialability

      you can be an outright racist on 4chan … if someone debates you, you can entertain yourself endlessly

      if you aren’t a racist … you get to have some fun … and tell everyone you are fake

      if you are an actual racist … you get to affirm your deluded beliefs … and tell everyone you are fake

    • @colonial
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      41 year ago

      I thought this was well-known. They’re trolls first and foremost - I’d like to cite the whole 👌-hand-symbol fiasco as evidence.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    The toilet seat argument with women. I understand that the toilet seat should be let down, but if I forget. There is no way in hell you should fall in. Most of the time I don’t just let the seat down, but also the lid. No complaints there. How the hell is that any different? Either way you have to look first.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    “All violence is caused by cis white men” politician said that quote and I’ve seen many people defend the statement. I don’t think it’s true and my knowledge of history makes me think it’s not true but I’m not sure if I’m correct since colonialism did do a lot of damage.

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      11 year ago

      Japan: am I a joke to you!?

      It’s nowhere close to true even with the most revisionist views of history - what’s also funny is the definition of white also isn’t some set in stone thing and has changed greatly over time.

      Colonialism absolutely fucked things up in large parts of the world (all of it?) but it wasn’t just done by anglo/white dominant countries though England and Spain together account for a loooot of it.

  • @Shardikprime
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    21 year ago

    I feel you man. You know what, ill just go ahead and say it: VI IS BETTER THAN NANO, YOU GODLESS BASTARDS

    THERE I SAID IT.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Hot take thread? Mumford and Sons from a decade ago was Good Actually. Fuck that one guy who turned out to be a fascist tho

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    There’s a few, I’m not going to state them for fear of going against the narrative in public. I’m pretty sure if I stated some of my opinions about modern culture I’d get run out of here on a rail. I feel like an island, but I’m old and irrelevant so I don’t care. BTW, get off my lawn.

  • @axtualdave
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    11 year ago

    The blanket on the couch is green.