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>It's a bunch of anonymous people posting crap, often for shock value. Sure, there's incitement on there, but nobody takes anybody serious. As someone who freq

>It's a bunch of anonymous people posting crap, often for shock value. Sure, there's incitement on there, but nobody takes anybody serious. As someone who frequents 8chan, I can tell you this categorically is not the case and /pol/acks are very serious.

gridlockd 8y ago
"Being serious" about their own beliefs is different from taking another anonymous poster serious. On there you have literal Nazis, MAGA people and white identitarians all disagreeing and trolling each other. They can't even agree on everything being a Jewish conspiracy.
- faissaloo 8y ago
  They don't have to agree on every point to be a danger.
  - gridlockd 8y ago
    That's besides the point. Individually, they don't have to agree on anything and still pose a danger. What you can't say is that this is some sort of organization that poses a threat as such. It is a bunch of random people on the internet that do not know each other and that vaguely share certain beliefs.
    - faissaloo 8y ago
      They share those beliefs because they gave each other those beliefs, they didn't come out of nowhere. People go into /pol/ having some unconventional views on immigration and come out full blown fascists. There's no need for some 'evil organisation' like you're imagining.
      - snvzz 8y ago
        It's more like, fascists and such come to /pol/ to post their garbage, and meet well-spoken anons that oppose their views and expose the flaws of their arguments. This is an obvious advantage to all of this happening in the open, over it happening in some members-only curated hate forum where any voice of reason is just removed and banned. I'm baffled with how irrational some people can get, irresponsibly calling for the suppression of public, anonymous image boards.
        faissaloo 8y ago
        Yeah I used to think that too, the problem is the 'free marketplace of ideas' doesn't work because alot of people are literally incapable of reasoning at a high level, on either side. We can't change fascists fast enough to keep up, it's simply not possible or realistic. Also you don't seem to understand how 8chan works, because /pol/ already has a curated hate forum where any voice of reason is banned.

gridlockd 8y ago

"Being serious" about their own beliefs is different from taking another anonymous poster serious. On there you have literal Nazis, MAGA people and white identitarians all disagreeing and trolling each other. They can't even agree on everything being a Jewish conspiracy.

faissaloo 8y ago
They don't have to agree on every point to be a danger.
- gridlockd 8y ago
  That's besides the point. Individually, they don't have to agree on anything and still pose a danger. What you can't say is that this is some sort of organization that poses a threat as such. It is a bunch of random people on the internet that do not know each other and that vaguely share certain beliefs.
  - faissaloo 8y ago
    They share those beliefs because they gave each other those beliefs, they didn't come out of nowhere. People go into /pol/ having some unconventional views on immigration and come out full blown fascists. There's no need for some 'evil organisation' like you're imagining.
    - snvzz 8y ago
      It's more like, fascists and such come to /pol/ to post their garbage, and meet well-spoken anons that oppose their views and expose the flaws of their arguments. This is an obvious advantage to all of this happening in the open, over it happening in some members-only curated hate forum where any voice of reason is just removed and banned. I'm baffled with how irrational some people can get, irresponsibly calling for the suppression of public, anonymous image boards.
      - faissaloo 8y ago
        Yeah I used to think that too, the problem is the 'free marketplace of ideas' doesn't work because alot of people are literally incapable of reasoning at a high level, on either side. We can't change fascists fast enough to keep up, it's simply not possible or realistic. Also you don't seem to understand how 8chan works, because /pol/ already has a curated hate forum where any voice of reason is banned.