<2022-02-21T22:10:33.000Z> Ghislaine: Were/are you an mpc poaster? I see you have a pinned tweet about the forum 
<2022-02-21T22:11:21.000Z> Ghislaine: I lurked there a lot 2016-2019
<2022-02-21T22:11:26.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: I never wanted to pay the money so I never signed up but I read the forums where I could when it wasn't locked behind a fucking paywall
<2022-02-21T22:12:10.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: I've been on /n/, /new/ and /pol/ and numerous bunker offsites for going on 15 years now
<2022-02-21T22:13:24.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: I just really liked that post on SCALE, MPC was a good forum if you could get away from circle jerking cult of personality drama and other distracting shit like that
<2022-02-21T22:13:41.000Z> Ghislaine: Ya I paid up. Nice to be able to check in every now and then. They’re still going 
<2022-02-21T22:14:47.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: 8/pol/ and 4chon /new/ we're probably the best I am, although those have been dead and gone for some time now
<2022-02-21T22:15:52.000Z> Ghislaine: I always like to see pmans take on things. Agree about the endless e fighting being annoying
<2022-02-21T22:16:33.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: It's an offshoot of sorts from something awful, and they fall prey to the same issues that the goons have where it's just a bunch of name faggotry and clout chasing
<2022-02-21T22:17:13.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: You can take the goons out of the forums, but you can't take the forums out of the goons
<2022-02-21T22:17:30.000Z> Ghislaine: Lol yeah.
<2022-02-21T22:18:09.000Z> Ghislaine: Still though nice that they would write little essays. i don’t see much of that anymore since I quit looking at mpc
<2022-02-21T22:18:14.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: So even though I lurked the forums, I always preferred posting anonymously because you don't have that kind of shitty elitism with Anon
<2022-02-21T22:18:53.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: Yeah anyone who would write like that moved off to like substack or basically just disappeared into the ether. There's probably a lot of really good writers who just resigned themselves to shitposting these days
<2022-02-21T22:20:18.000Z> Ghislaine: Full anon is not ideal imo because you have no way of filtering out retards based on their other dumbass posts
<2022-02-21T22:20:48.000Z> Ghislaine: Sad that the internet culture has been lobotomizwd by the move off of forums
<2022-02-21T22:21:04.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: If you've been on 4chan or image boards as long as I have you kind of just gloss over the garbage. Effort posts are immediately apparent, and I'm a pretty strong/fast reader so I can quickly determine if a post is worth reading or not almost instantly
<2022-02-21T22:22:19.000Z> Ghislaine: Eh I spent like 5 years on 4chan and I feel like I see the good stuff filtered thru screenshots now. You spend so much time filtering and looking at absolute garbage quality posting on those sites just trying to find the gems 
<2022-02-21T22:22:37.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: I really miss forms as well, they're okay for some things but for genuine real political discussion or anything of import it's just a dead medium. Best you can find these days is microblogging and comment sections, while I enjoy the fediverse, it doesn't really lend as well to long-form effort posting
<2022-02-21T22:22:54.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: Image boards are the purest example of a Skinner box
<2022-02-21T22:22:59.000Z> Ghislaine: Yeah it’s sad
<2022-02-21T22:24:04.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: At this point though if you want to read an essay, you can probably find one and the information can be gathered in short form Twitter format if you really need it. Is also good enough but it takes a discerning eye cultivated by years of browsing the boards. That, or an aggressive use of filtering lmao
<2022-02-21T22:25:33.000Z> Ghislaine: Twitter and reddit ate the whole forum sphere and are moderated terribly
<2022-02-21T22:25:43.000Z> Ghislaine: It’s awful
<2022-02-21T22:25:52.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: They're not moderated terribly, they're moderated exactly as they're meant to be
<2022-02-21T22:26:15.000Z> Ghislaine: Lol yeah. We’ll terribly for us
<2022-02-21T22:26:18.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: Arbitrary, biased, and completely outside any sphere of accountability
<2022-02-21T22:26:37.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: So yeah that's why we're here
<2022-02-21T22:26:42.000Z> Ghislaine: I toed the line on my last twitter account and they banned me anyway
<2022-02-21T22:26:51.000Z> Ghislaine: Fuckers
<2022-02-21T22:27:17.000Z> Ghislaine: Hope they go on an absolutely insane ban spree and drive the funny people off
<2022-02-21T22:27:50.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: They already did
<2022-02-21T22:28:55.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: At this point Twitter is just a kind of big tech psychological operation and operative conditioning platform, it is designed to curate consensus and promote passive participation. 
<2022-02-21T22:29:26.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: Yeah there's still some based people on there, but I'm positive they're allowed to stay as a means of flagging and identifying potential followers and similar thinkers
<2022-02-21T22:32:45.000Z> Ghislaine: Yeah agreed
<2022-02-21T22:33:08.000Z> Ghislaine: Annoying that good people stay there and make it a viable platform
<2022-02-21T22:33:27.000Z> Ghislaine: I still check in on Hank Oslo and thomas777
<2022-02-21T22:33:33.000Z> Ghislaine: And some others
<2022-02-21T22:36:45.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: I'm also positive that operation mockingbird was never canceled, and they don't limit it to just TV radio and Cinema
<2022-02-21T22:37:02.000Z> Ghislaine: Come to think of it I paid the mpc 20 dollar tax in btc in like 2018 which means that it ended up costing me like 100$ in todays bitcoin
<2022-02-21T22:37:23.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: Womp womp
<2022-02-21T22:42:41.000Z> Ghislaine: Yeah I think it’s pretty dang clear at this point the centralized socials are controlled completely 
<2022-02-21T22:43:04.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: They have been since the age of radio and film
<2022-02-21T22:43:12.000Z> Ghislaine: They let it get out of hand in 2016 imo and made sure that couldn’t happen again 
<2022-02-21T22:44:02.000Z> Jackuu@beefyboys.club: CB radio was probably the first real decentralized means of Mass public communication that was outside of the grasp of central organization, the internet and everything that it's offered was that a million times over but it's slowly being brought to heel