I think I would have had an absolutely horrible life if not for the existence of the internet and the ability to reach you faggots. Scale that up, and we probably have at least a few thousand retards out there who would have - if not gone the Uncle Ted route - not been functional members of society if we didn't have places like this. We would have ended up the "I'm telling you I'm not crazy! Why can't I relate to anyone? Why won't anyone listen to me?!"-types.
I agree with your point. Truthfully, I'm not even
that interested in lolcows, but I think the community here is less retarded than the average website. Fundamentally, all I need is the ability to call someone a niggerfaggot every once in a while and not worry about a ban. I simply want to read goofy bullshit, autistic write-ups, and post my own bullshit musings to be happy with a forum. I think more people long for that than we realize.
I should point out that the reverse is also true. Several Wild West sites existed solely to drag down their own userbase. The long term memetic damage of Tumblr has been a disaster for the Internet.
I actually don't think that was glowies. It's almost all known interests and groups that openly want to get rid of us.
I'll be honest, I often conflate glowies, feds, and TPTB in my mind without considering how most people are more specific with their terminology. I think "fed" as a category is in-and-of-itself convoluted. I would call Fuentes a fed, for example, but I don't think he's on a payroll. Null points out
here that ICANN is effectively running defense for
any government. Are they feds? Probably not by the colloquial definition, but in practice, they may as well be.
For one thing, the site has a pretty strong ethic of not putting up with fedposting (at least when it crosses the line from shitposting) or actually doing dumb crimes, and has some pretty solid OSINT sometimes on people that are probably of interest to them. To some extent, the type of people who might otherwise do worse shit are tard wrangled by site culture into not doing that.
That was one of the more surprising things when I joined. I rarely lurked KF over the years before making an account and assumed there was more fedposting, and I just wasn't seeing it. Glad that it doesn't, because it sort of ruins the fun when people start threatening to kill politicians for banning JUULs or whatever.
I doubt they're going to be terribly involved in fucking with the site. Much like they almost certainly use cryptocurrency for their own black bag operations, they probably even use the site at least casually for informational purposes.
I'm not so certain.
Imagine a site that's known for its ability to dox people solely because its users find those people funny. Imagine a site that told the New Zealand government to kick rocks after uploading footage of a mass shooting. Imagine a site that got kicked off of Cloudflare, the premier DDOSing mitigating service, and replaced it with one of its own creation. Imagine a site that survived several attempts at deplatforming by jumping through dozens of hoops. Imagine a site that raised over $100k in a few days to fight several legal battles. Imagine an admin who was willing to flee the country rather than comply with threats of violence. Imagine an admin who starts his own PAC around online free speech.
I think the Farms has a lot more power than we realize. It's just not directed towards something that's truly "dangerous" per se nor should it be. I'm pretty satisfied with the direction the site is heading. Like I said, I just want a place where I can call people niggerfaggots.
Speaking of Tarrant, wasn't he trained in Israel? Whenever these ops happen, there are always Israeli/wetwork fingerprints all over them, just like with Breivik, or that op in Australia that kicked off their gun ban.
I have no idea. I was lurking when Tarrant posted his video and washed my hands of 8chan immediately once I realized it was real. I assumed it was a known gore/shock video posted as a troll, like that old guy who eats shit that got posted everywhere back in the day. I assume Tarrant was the real deal simply because 8/pol/ was
really far down the political slip-and-slide after a certain point.
I'd also like to know more about the silent protest.
Glad to tell you about it. It was one of those weird moments that I'm shocked no one really brings up. I'll try to remember it.
Anons were talking about how they could prove their efficacy in real life politics or societal collapse. For example, one proposal was to pin an 8 of clubs on clothing in the event of a collapse so other anons could instantly tell you were on the same side, similar to a gang. Eventually, several anons decided to stage a silent protest at a large bank in Texas (I can't remember which city nor which bank). If I recall correctly, the rules of the protest were as follows:
Bring a threatening firearm like an AR-15 or a Remington 870, do not speak to anyone, do not look at anyone, stand in a straight line parallel to the entrance of the bank, stare at the entrance with your weapon brandished in your hands, do not point your weapon at anything but the ground, wait for several minutes (8 maybe) then disperse without saying anything.
One namefag was assigned as a record keeper in the thread, and would film below the waist as proof that the protest did in-fact take place. Obviously, they wanted to preserve the anonymity of the attendees to the best of their ability. They did not want any direct police involvement, but they did want to spook the bank tellers into calling the cops.
The protest was considered a success. I can't remember how many people showed up exactly, but I'm certain there were at least 10. In the webm, I could tell there were both men and women there based off of how their legs were shaped, but there were no other identifying details. Apparently, a few female bank tellers noticed the commotion and openly panicked at the windows. A homeless black man accosted them briefly, but they had no formal involvements with security or the law. The thread itself devolved into mocking banking interests and Jews, but 8/pol/ as a whole grew more invigorated by the entire affair. This was pre-Trump, but I couldn't tell you the date exactly.
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I'm going to throw out a Hail Mary in the off-chance anyone also browsed 8chan back in the day. If anyone remembers the Alice in Wonderland Bunny Day Care fiasco, please tell me. That's one thing posted on 8chan that I'm still not certain about. To keep it brief, someone claimed they discovered a possible pedoring/drug cartel in his hometown that used specific bunny graffiti to advertise its services. A few anons investigated online, there were boots on the ground, but I never found out if there was some conclusion. I think one guy just went dark after a while and everyone got spooked.
