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I might be terminally online because I see chanspeak everywhere. We see people decrying the influence of social media, but I remember what the internet was lik
by EddieDante 4y ago
I might be terminally online because I see chanspeak everywhere.
We see people decrying the influence of social media, but I remember what the internet was like before 4chan blew up. Before 4chan, the white supremacists and neo-Nazis stayed on stormfront.org where they damn well belonged, and if they showed up elsewhere they were bullied until they left.
Now we're expected to "tolerate" these ignorant shitfountains because of "free speech" and "civility". "Rights for me, privileges for thee," being the central principle of reactionaries of all stripes.
> turned down a chance to move into an fight club house filled with Polish neo-nazis
If I had to choose between living with my parents and having a bunch of Polish neo-Nazis as roommates I'd have to sit down and think it over. Neither option is particularly palatable. The former means living with people who still see me as their "little boy" and can't accept that I've had a mind of my own for the last 30 years or so. The latter means being seen as a neo-Nazi myself because guilt by association is as human as wanting to murder somebody because they won't acknowledge that your god has a bigger dick than their god.
- the_only_law 4y agoI mean, “chan-speak” isn’t limited to the far right anymore, it’s relatively common in younger far left circles and even growing among “normies”. I’ve seen guys on discord servers who never would have otherwise heard of 4chan pick up slang.
- EddieDante 4y agoMaybe I just need to go yell at some clouds, but that bothers me. If I can't automatically dismiss people who use chanspeak as alt-reich cultists, I'm going to have to waste time figuring out new ways to identify neo-Nazis so I can avoid them. They don't all wear MAGA hats or brown shirts. That would be too convenient.