/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.

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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.