#/pol/ 4chan

[spookcataloger]

Ads are reading my mind (2018)

Anon hates intuitive ads (2019)

[notaplaceofhonour]

O horror of horror, the Hebrew word for gentile! surely this means Da Jooz have it out for me!

[smarterthantheaverageloser]

Shoutout research librarian at my local library who broke out 3 different 10 pound style manuals to help me figure out how to cite a fucking 4chan post

[radioelly]

he's lying to himself he's very much also a dumb virgin

[seaslimes]

It is very important to know people who use different parts of the internet. My fiance uses 4chan & I browse Tumblr. This way, we maxmize the radiation from all directions to form a microwave. Only the funny shit survives the nuke, bigotry burned away like so much steam.

[fandom-blahs]

Actually one of the main reasons I took a hiatus from tumblr and eventually looked for other fandom communities (reddit) was because of Attack in Titan.

I’m not sure what year it was but at some point the fandom here was just “alktually you’re a nazi sympathiser and every other bigot under the sun” vs shipping (derogatory).

I think it was after S2 so that just seemed incoherent to me.

Another was my dc comics phase, i didn’t like the discussions here so naturally I ended up on 4chan.

[magnoliamyrrh]

does anyone else remember that bit of internet lore when shila le beouf (however u spell that) put up that flag and 4chans /pol took it down and this escalated into him putting flags on livestream in progressively harder to reach locations so we ended up with thousands of ppl on the internet doing shit like tracking it down through photos and videos through the movement of the sun and the sound of airplanes and mapping out trajectories and climbing buildings. that shit was wild and the wildest part abt it is that so many ppl got together to track down so incredibly obscure unimportant shit for only the shits and giggles through genuinely impressive means. its like. bro can u imagine if that many ppl put their minds to tracking down actually important stuff.

[straightlightyagami]

I think people should make an effort to learn to recognize alt-right or fascist dogwhistles/memes/slogans so they can avoid spreading them because it seems like some people genuinely don't know the ones I thought were pretty obvious or well-known in the mainstream (e.g. the blond blue eye chad meme, 1488, references to prussia, antisemitic or otherwise racist caricatures, "lizard people" references, "degenerate" as an insult, etc.) but also like if you want to do that be careful because even seeing this shit rots your brain, the channers and other people who make this stuff are genuinely depraved, and like you can get influenced by this sort of stuff.

[ophilosoraptoro]

The Tumblr-4chan Wars

A bit of history for all you Tumblr noobs

[ciswomenofficial]

Being kind by default to people who’ve had flawed beliefs in the past is all well and good, but you don’t need to suck up to someone and you still need to acknowledge that they did those things in the past, and quite possibly do still have some brainworms left over. it’s quite naked that some people get sucked up to while others get blamed for every imagined infraction, like using a website where there may be some toxic people and communities on certain boards.

does anyone else generally find it funny that when tme trans ppl talk about their experience being “former” terfs or getting “sucked into the pipeline” other tme ppl get down on all fours to suck them off for their bravery in the face of bigotry and their gracious and selfless will to change but when a trans woman jokes about having used 4chan she’s viewed with suspicion and marked as a pedophilic racist indefinitely

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Kaplan at MMFA:

Users of a far-right 4chan forum have shared the website for former President Donald Trump’s grassroots canvassing effort, Trump Force 47, hundreds of times, a Media Matters review has found. 4chan’s far-right “politically incorrect” message board, commonly known as “/pol/,” is a hotbed for white nationalist and racist content and harassment campaigns. The board played a major role in spreading the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, and it was the birthplace of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee launched Trump Force 47 in May to engage “tens of thousands of new volunteers across the country to participate in a neighbor-to-neighbor organizing program hyper-focused on mobilizing highly-targeted voters.” Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign describes it as the “official army of volunteer neighborhood organizers working together to defeat Kamala Harris and the far-left liberal democrats.” Volunteers, including in swing states, can seemingly be involved with neighborhood canvassing, poll watching, and other grassroots activities. Users on 4chan’s /pol/ message board have been promoting the organizing effort. A Media Matters review found that since Trump Force 47 launched in May, the URL for the site of the effort has been shared on /pol/ more than 350 times. These posts included messages pushing extremist rhetoric, which have been repeatedly shared. One included the lines “BAN THE TRANS,” “DEPORT THE HORDE!,” “AUDIT THE FRAUD,” “HANG THE RIGGERS,” and “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” (a reference to a white nationalist campaign popularized on the forum).

[...] Trump Force 47’s URL has also been shared in other far-right online spaces, like among QAnon figures and users on the far-right forum TheDonald. Far-right media figures, including Roseanne Barr, Jack Posobiec, and Rogan O’Handley — who have promoted QAnon, pushed various conspiracy theories, and spread misinformation, respectively — have taken part in Trump Force 47 training events. Posobiec’s trainings were reportedly “touted as a way to ‘receive insider insights from Jack Posobiec on the campaign’s efforts.’”

4chan’s /pol/ users have shared the link to Trump Force 47 at least 350 times to gather up canvassing efforts for Donald Trump.

[tenth-sentence]

A 2018 analysis of 160 million archived visuals showed that far-right trolls on the internet were highly effective in spreading racist and anti-Semitic memes from fringe forums like 4chan's /pol/ board and the subreddit /The_Donald to more mainstream platforms.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[blacktrash]

[nikkidafox]

As former 4channer, in general just don't touch 4chan, but it's not all bad.

/b/ is just... a mixed bag. You have "ironic" racism and sexism, but there's also a surprising amount of people talking about what dumbasses Trump and Desantis are. But the vast majority of it is "trap thread" and "YLYL"

Just don't go on /pol/. Ever. Under any circumstances. Don't go there to argue, don't go there to try and "troll the trolls", just do not.

[world-love-government]

How to dismiss hate, racism, and discrimination with humor

Perhaps one of the most mainstream ways racism, discrimination, and hate can be justified is "if its funny" - Is this a problem in society? Many people would say yes. The theory goes something like this: So long as its amusing/entertaining/funny, I can get away with acts of hate, discrimination, and racism. Is this just a fixed condition of the human race and its consciousness, when we can get people to laugh at something/someone - its damned to be, its fixed to a label of "invalid" of "dismissed"? If this is the case - what can society and people do to fight back when this mode of thought is used to express hate or violence? Are there some truths or laws in human or social psychology that we can rely on? These are the kinds of questions we have to ask ourselves in the fight for social justice against hatred, racism, and discrimination.

Imagine an African-American male with a high-pitch voice. Imagine a group of people laughing at him, on a daily basis, however denying the charges of racism. After all, they're not laughing at him on the basis of his race, they're laughing at him on the basis of his voice. What we must realize in social justice as a retort however, is ultimately sensitivity to identity.

Yes while you may laugh at an African-American male with a high pitch voice because they sound funny, its impossible to deny you knew he was African-American. If you knew the person was African-American, that by itself demands for you to make a choice relative to racial equality or discrimination. It's the humor of the voice that allows for racism and discrimination to dismiss harm against and validity of race.

This is especially in the case of racism and discrimination carried out on a regular basis, or repeated basis. When racism is dismissed by humor on a regular/repeated basis, they must acknowledge that racial identity to be invalidated. It must be dismissed or invalidated by conditioning the same message over and over again. You will note the same route of logic in all cases: I'm not laughing at their race, I'm laughing at their high-pitched voice. This is true, but what's also true is that you knew their race period, in most likely cases of racist humor. It's ultimately these oppressed and discriminated racial identities that already experience challenges and difficulty in society; your laughter doesn't help. What I often draw a comparison to are the Good Samaritan Laws.

If you're aware of a racialized/oppressed identity suffering/being picked on, you have a choice to make. You can help, or not. It reminds me of that final seinfeld episode where instead of choosing to help the (fat) guy getting robbed, Seinfeld and company decide to laugh at him instead, recording the entire event for their own personal entertainment. Is or was the final episode meant to be predictive about the rise in political correctness for society? The television show throughout its lifetime dealt with a variety of topics that gained attention of various interest groups in the 90's. Were the writers of the popualr television show sending a message to the audience about what to expect in the future?

[intoxicatinginsanity]

Only paranoid idiots wear face diapers. Survival of the fittest.

Lmao bro when you die from covid complications; please be sure to tell me how much your trash eugenics helped you from beyond the grave, Shit Ass.