Generally I think it revolves around the normalization of really hateful thinking, both outside and within.

I never got too deep into it, and once /pol/ got overrun with literal Nazis I knew it was over, and it’s when I started distancing myself from it. Reddit was nominally better, and it took me from being this center right a-hole to at least a RadLib.

I always had an interest in Communism, but it was more “Tankie Aesthetic cool!” Than it was about “We must implement communism as it is the only way to save the world.”

Since no one ever was able to convince me that the USSR killed 6942002496 people a second, it and the awesomeness of Chapo Trap House eventually got me to where I am now: The only True Leftist.

It’s Texas.

4chan ruined my mental health and Reddit just helped keep it ruined. Getting banned from Reddit was the best thing that ever happened to me. Then I got rid of Twitter, I was off Facebook the moment they got rid of their original UI after they opened the website to everyone. One day I will permanently log off to become one with the grass, but not today.

Yeah, when I was dumb teen I spent time on…ugh… KotakuInAction.

At least it was a step up from hanging out on 4chan’s /b/ in its hey day.

Google Realism.

The political equivalent of “I don’t care as long as both teams have fun!” During the Super Bowl.

Cool. I did not know this. Thanks for educating.

Like there is some history of what can be called colonization in Finland and Japan, with the Ainu in Japan and Sami people in Finland. But like these places resemble ethnostates based more off of geographic and language isolation.

If Japan spoke English as a second language the same way you see in former British colony states, you can bet your ass that island would be full of immigrants and non-japanese people.

But it’s an island with a language that is really hard for Westerners to learn.

Finland is a snowy wasteland most the year, so yeah not a lot of people want to live there, so only the people who have always lived there live there. Finnish is also a hard language for not Scandinavians to learn.

The other countries are just absolutely pulled out his ass, I think, but again are probably more ethnostate like due to geographic issues and not because some people started colonizing it in the last century and kicked out the modern native population that was living there forever

This is basically the Microsoft Strategy™.

They buy out smaller tech companies, squeeze them dry and then close them down.

This is like what the 15th game studio they’ve done this to since Rareware in the mid 2000s?

We need to define being so caught up in a sunk cost that you refuse to leave it despite all evidence, as a mental illness on par with extreme learning disabilities.

The hellish stuff is what makes the bit funny, I would assume. Schadenfreude and all that jazz.

It’s still amazing to me that we popularized well tuned chatbots, and it is killing digital human interactions because half the chatbots can pass a turning test while half the actual humans on the internet can’t.

Bit idea: You are Chapo Trap House (yes all of them at once) having to make fun of article writing nerds from The Federalist but have to parse though what’s real and what’s generated by AI.

The cadence in this article makes me think this is literally an human edited AI post. Like the prompt to a middle school essay 'Choose a trope from American History or Literature and then chose a president who embodies that!"

It can be hard to clean out and in outdoor long-term environments it can cause your tent to start to mold.

How ya Doing New York Post?

In my case it was trolling a troll by basically copying what he said but aiming it at him.

I got banned the original troll I was copying did not.

Is this a recent photo?

It’s part of why I stopped doing it. My mental health was flowing down the drain and it wasn’t worth holding on to something that was bringing me pain.

And despite coming out trans like within the year of me leaving, I still occasionally see stuff about what a huge Transphobe I am, because I one time made a typo that accidentally misgendered someone once.

1. Get some Fart spray or like liquid fart, or skunk smell.
2. Figure out a way to spill it on one or more of them while making it seem like an accident.
3. Smell is really bad and lingers on them all day making what they say seem even more irrelevant (normie Libs don’t like smelly people yelling outside, reminds them of the homeless too much)
4. Someone will inform security about the smelly, yelling, and possibly homeless guy. Security will waste time on preacher creating less scrutiny on festival goers. Chance preacher gets thrown out for being smelly and yelling.

Alternatively get the fart spray and just keep spraying it upwind of the preacher without any aersol directly hitting them. Making the area stinky and making it so people are less inclined to approach them. This will help starve them of the attention they want.