No.3098
The owner of 8chan, Jim Watkins, has been accused of co-opting 2ch. The function of the 2ch co-opting was to bellow the flames of right wing shit-posting in order to justify anti-hate speech intervention online and to undermine the credibility of the right in Japan. This is exactly what what we see going on now in the west. Kek is on CNN and the alt-right is being defined by its adversaries. Image boards are now a national issue.
On halfchan the Trump campaign is paying people to bump the Trump General threads literally 24hrs a day. The Trump campaign has also seized control of 8/pol/. In case you didn't notice. At the time of this writing there are 4 Trump stickies on the front page. The mods have been ordered to ban on site anyone who disparages "the god emperor" with evidence and links.
Finally, Jim is a free mason and every mason thread will get anchored. This started happening around the time Trump came in and bought out the board.
https://8ch.net/pol/res/7721083.html
http://archive.is/l7iI1
____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3102
>>3098
That first image looks like BS. It's saying 'Jim Watkins has connections to anonymous and here he is in an anonymous mask - the dirty rat', yet most imageboards seem tied to that ambiguous identity. The second image is much more informative and relevant.
In my opinion, Jim and Hotwheels are there to front for the band. The owner narrative is like a stick to whack the hornet nest into frenzies of distracting drama. It's not worth paying attention to, except to be attentive to the dangers and the fact that the background of the site is dodgy and sketchy, the same as everywhere else. It seems the majority of posters on the main boards are shills, bots and people who haven't figured this out yet, or they've a genuine belief that Trump is the real deal and they have latent magic powers.
>The function of the 2ch co-opting was to bellow the flames of right wing shit-posting in order to justify anti-hate speech intervention online and to undermine the credibility of the right in Japan.
I didn't know 2channers were inflammatory. From what I've seen of their posts in English they're respectful to each other and reserved.
>Trump has come in and taken over the board
You should resolve that with the idea that /pol/ is meant to dismantle the right-wing. It seems really to be giving it a surge.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3103
The chans are the internet hate machine.
The chans are the final boss of the internet.
The chans are hives of scum and villiany.
The chans are how people behave when they throw of the mask.
When you single out a single behavior of the chans it says more about you then it says about the chans. You will see whatever you disapprove of in them.
That is why 4chan was described by Fox as an evil far left website, and now is described as an evil far right website. It never changed, the world did.
Consider if you will 4chan placed in other countries and other eras and consider what they would find offensive. Would they complain about the homophobia or the homosexuality of the chans? Telling each other to kill ourselves? The blasphemies against religion? The constant nudity? The pro-racemixing (with east asians) messages?
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3104
>>3102
>You should resolve that with the idea that /pol/ is meant to dismantle the right-wing. It seems really to be giving it a surge.
Care to elaborate on that? If you're referring to cuckservatism and muh wholesome evangelical jeebus types than yeah it's dismantling the shit out of that, but other than that....
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3107
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3109
>>3098
Just found this on 4chan.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3110
>>3104
Contrast OP's idea that imageboard culture is being used to dismantle the right-wing via hate-speech, with his claim that Trump's campaign is involved with /pol/.
Together those claims imply /pol/ is a barrel of toxic which Trump is drinking from.
The way you've put it; that /pol/ is dismantling old sections of the right (online at least), is more believable.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3114
According to wikileaks Clinton helped Trump rise to get a more extreme opponent that would be easier to defeat.
https://t.co/OaUjtFkKWg
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3121
>>3114
assuage
əˈsweɪdʒ/
verb
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. "the letter assuaged the fears of most members" synonyms: relieve, ease, alleviate, soothe, mitigate, dampen, allay, calm, palliate, abate, lull, temper, suppress, smother, stifle, subdue, tranquillize, mollify, moderate, modify, tone down, attenuate, dilute, lessen, diminish, decrease, reduce, lower; More satisfy (an appetite or desire).
e.g. "an opportunity occurred to assuage her desire for knowledge"
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3284
I'm reading "Propaganda" by Ellul and this passage made me think of /pol/ (p. 17-18)
>...successful propaganda will occupy every moment of the individual's life: through posters and loudspeakers when he is out walking, through radio and newspapers at home, through meetings and movies in the evening. The individual must not be allowed to recover, to collect himself, to remain untouched by propaganda during any relatively long period, for propaganda is not the touch of the magic wand. It is based on slow, constant impregnation. It creates convictions and compliance through imperceptible influences that are effective only by continuous repetition. It must create a complete environment for the individual, one from which he never emerges. And to prevent him from finding external points of reference, it protects him by censoring everything that might come in from the outside.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3298
>>3284
Not just /pol but the algorithms that decide what to show. The "echo chamber". Even the MSM picked up on this over the last two months.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3299
>>3298
>the MSM picked up on this over the last two months
Yeah I wonder why. They throw around these memes of "post truth" and "fake news". They are meaningless vessels really, fancy ways to attack your oponent that seem to have certain depth to them but really have none at all.
Adam Curtis proved to be a good boy to the elites by spewing this dirt on "Hypernormalisation".
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3302
>>3284
In what ways does /pol/ permeate its users' lives other than the board?
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3303
>>3302
The news. The changing face of 'normality'.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3592
>>3302
Many of them are desperate to fit in with each other. Having learned the truth that all governments and cultures are adversaries to the individual some of them get scared. The mods on pol are using this to their advantage. I have never seen such ruthless censorship as I have on pol. even worse than reddit. Everyone who does not strictly adhere to the board culture is "degenerate" and immediately reported. Alot of these guys struggle with personal relationships offline and wax poetically about escapism either into the countyside or into another time. Its really pathetic.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.3594
>>3592
Modern /pol/ hardly resembles what it did when the post you're replying to was posted. Sad.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.