/pol/ is such cringe

online activism started with project Chanology and the various cringefests headed by Anonymous

(online activism is also closely associated with moralfaggotry.)

shortly after that we all realized how cringey and retarded it is to take internet autism into real life and vice versa. after all, part of the point of going online (at the time) was to avoid the cancerous worldly obsessions of normalfags. the internet was a way for us to get AWAY from RL shit,

a few years later, by around 2012, the lessons from the Chanology debacle were forgotten. a bunch of normalfags decided they belonged on imageboards and moved in, shamelessly bringing all their problems with them. instead of a place to take a nice break from RL, imageboards became a place to endlessly pontificate about RL stuff like it was some edgy version of Facebook.

the idea of being into social justice was hatched, probably ironically by goons on SA. simultaneously internet Nazism started picking up speed. like two sides of the same AIDS infested coin.

it all culminated in 2016 in the biggest disgrace to imageboard culture ever, /pol/. they hijacked our culture to promote their political candidate—successfully. that was when I completely quit my imageboard career. it was finished. I couldn’t participate in or make myself get excited about essentially doing volunteer canvassing for a political candidate. I would have just turned on fox news if I were into that boomer shit. I just wanted to shitpost and forget about RL a few hours a day, god forbid. normalfags ruin absolutely everything.

/pol/ is for anuses. the only good choice is ditching imagereddits, staying on textboards and replying to /pol/ posts with saged 'e/pol/in meme, /pol/ro'

>>1
Political subversion and manipulation can create dedicated echo chambers, where paid professionals shape the narrative.
Newcomers and regulars start adapting to the manufactured subculture and become memetic carriers. A web cult grows to infect new sites from its power base and starts to be noticed by the media, shaping its image as anti-establishment center: this attracts more newcomers and accelerates its spread.
A subcultural conflict forces both sides to redefine themselves in terms of opposition to enemy narratives and reinforces echo-chamber walls to ridiculous levels, bordering cognitive dissonance. Using this conflict, you can advance legal/social change utilizing the existing subculture support against their perceived enemies and win influence by pretending to ally your people with the causes of new movement or opposition to enemy movements. Without the edge of manufactured conflict, politics relies on limited and boring tactics of scaring the audience with external threats. Internal threats carry more weight.

>>3
common-sensy but interesting. any further reading?

>>4
I just wrote it on a whim. I don't have a blog.

>>5
I mena sources on how this kind of self-perpetuating mutual radicalization can be engineered and abused, if you have them.

itt: jews

>>6
Its mostly personal observations from browsing relevant sites.
What is important is noticing the background trends not reported in the media: spread of antifa network across US, the unified media narratives changing concurrently, dismantling of government positions and offices, "deep state" narrative being pushed.

>>8
ah, ok. I'm not from the US so I mostly interact with US political culture through the internet and it's obvious to me that it's progressively becoming more and more insane

>>9
``A subcultural conflict forces both sides to redefine themselves in terms of opposition to enemy narratives and reinforces echo-chamber walls to ridiculous levels, bordering cognitive dissonance.``

Its very easy to spot trend changes when you know the "background culture" norms and what organic content looks like on average. Suppose you see an idea X on the internet.

1.X is a new idea.
2.X gains support by appealing to local subculture.
3.X slowly integrates into local subculture.
4.X is noticed by outside forces.

Scenario A:
5.X starts to get opposition.
6.Anti-X memes, threads and posts increase, as if sizeable chunk of subculture switched against X.
They look unfitting but adapt to local norms.
7.X threads/topics/memes begin to receive undue criticism 24/7 as if there are paid professionals monitoring each occurrence of X.
8.Narrative changes to exclude X from the subculture as foreign idea.
9.X is removed as support for it isn't dedicated or particularly attached, while opposition is dedicated to its elimination.

Scenario B:
5.X starts to receive support from media and influence figures.
6.Pro-X memes, threads and posts skyrocket, as if sizeable chunk of subculture become virally attached to it. It doesn't look like organic growth and begins to sow opposition.
7.X threads/topics/memes begin to receive extra bumps/like/retweets/reblogs, spreading the narrative outside of subculture.
8.Narrative changes to include X as vital part of subculture.
9.X is integrated deep enough that opposition to it is perceived as sacrilege by most members of the subculture.

it all culminated in 2016 in the biggest disgrace to imageboard culture ever, /pol/. they hijacked our culture to promote their political candidate—successfully

And yet, donald trump is meeting kim yong. Everyone is hyped for de-nuclearization, but probably should focus on simply ceasing hostilities
Nukes were only good when nobody had them to respond with, using one usually just equates to getting hit by one in the modern calculus

>>12
I kind of like Trump but that's not the point. Everyone is constantly talking about Trump everywhere already. Why do I need to shitpost about him and shill for him as well on my own time?

>>13
lol, why do you feel the need to copy what /pol is doing, anytime?
It seems a bit silly to complain now when you disagree, kind of a red flag isn't it? Reclaim your independent thought

pretty much amazing theme for this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep1ilHpTvSM

>>14
The fuck are you babbling about?

>>15
Just another mystery of the universe, anon
=3

>>13
There will be plenty of time for shilling for trump when you realize that Hillary is going to run again in 2020 and already has the DNC nomination sewn up.

>>17
Ha, I'll give ya 50/50 odds she dead by then.

>>18
I'll bet you 500 btc she will be running for president by then.

>>19
Could be both, Weekend at Hillary's style.