Uhhhhh didnt we see Jepstein literally encouraging the trans epidemic? Not to mention Ghislaine Maxwell probably did a lot to make reddit the way it is.
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Pretty simplistic. There is a whole system put in place by billionaires and their cronies in order to keep the plebs divided and fighting amongst themselves to distract from the general excesses and depravity of their lifestyle.
turns it works really good with right wingers, because thier beliefs are culture wars stuff from the get-go, just add alitle more hate this race swapped, dei person,,,,etc.
Source? Like, I would love for this to be true. But how do we know it's true? Surely if it's so obvious it should be easy to provide one specific piece of evidence, rather than just gesturing broadly at the world and saying "it should be obvious".
Epstein had a conversation with m00t, and the same day, 4chan put out /pol, the board that infected the rest of the site with the right-wing sentiment it's currently known for, in addition to being ground zero for basically all conservative neo-nazi culture today.
This among many other things.
I believe this post, like many others are correlating the creation of the /pol/ board on 4chan after moot had a conversation with Epstein or something.
Acting like /pol/ and 4chan is solely responsible for the entire situation is just a vapid braindead take, much less the idea that a political board on a popular forum hangout is some meniacal master plan...
Obviously all this Epstein shit is heinous af, but acting like he's the origin of all evil just fucking hilarious "this is your brain on religion" logic. That being said, Epstein would definitely make a good "Satan's avatar" in a story...
Firstly, what do you mean solely responsible, secondly, groypers, pepe the frog, wojaks, incels, the proud boys, whoever was running Ron Desantis' media accounts and throwing sonnenrads behind his head in promotional videos, and many people currently working for Trump right now have roots in 4chan.
Frankly, I think you're getting a bit defensive.
[edit] Oh, I always forget about QAnon. That's like the first one I should say. The capital riot was QAnon. That's 4chan, man.
Incels didn't originate with 4chan, 4chan just gave them a more visible home than they had previously.
And? 4chan was a shithole. I don't know why I'd be defensive over it.
I just thinking blaming edgelord neckbeards with terminal online syndrome for the current political landscape is a cop-out and naive at BEST.
If that's a defensive position to take of 4chan your bar is extremely low.
There is a lot of blame to go around but 4ch was the face of it and the place to foment, it's not a cop-out to suggest that in the same capacity GamerGate was the direct project of Steve Bannon there is a degree of "culture-bending" by people who see the culture's stress points. The scars go back to the foundation of the country sure, but people actively work to keep the wounds open and weeping. How do they do that? Were they supposed to take power through one-off wing nuts like Timothy McVeigh, Randy Weaver, William Luther Pierce? Those guys could be incendiary but they couldn't penetrate the culture itself, the right had to come up with a way to sell their shit in the 21st century. 4chan brought them all onto the information superhighway, merging the culture of Something Awful, Stormfront, and every contrian-filled anime BBS board. It doesn't all trace back to Epstein but it does all trace back to class war, white supremacy, sex trafficking, and patriarchal chauvanism, and these were the tools available to them.
I think I agree with everything you said except that 4chan was the face of it. Even in the digital realm alone, there are far larger and far more toxic avenues, and one of the largest is staring at most everyone in the face every day. Facebook has been far worse imo than 4chan could ever dream to be, for the very same reasons 4chan is condemned.
I'll concede that could be my subjective viewpoint tho based on my interactions with both of them.
A cop-out from what?
Appropriately attributing blame to those who perpetuate it. It is possible that 4chan was a useful tool, but 4chan itself is hardly invested it keeping everyone divided to pull people away from actual issues.
They also pale in comparison to the influence political leaders, mass media, and billionaires have.
In this thread, I found the Epsteinfta.com link to search the epstein files for text. I know Steve Bannon is one of the main architects behind right wing media strategy. I know people who are black are a common distraction in the USA, so I searched "Bannon" "blacks", using "blacks" here because that's how racists refer to people who are black.
The very first hit is Steve Bannon discussing with someone how to improve Trump's image in 2018 by comparing him to Obama.
The second result is a conversation on how to gain support by "wearing the name calling as a badge of honor". The name calling here being labeled "racist".
This took 5 minutes and some brainpower.
Thanks for actually giving evidence, but to your point, if it only took five minutes and some brain power, then I would expect that the people making the claim in the first place should have been the ones to do it, since the burden of proof was on them. It's pretty annoying to act like it should be my responsibility to put the right search terms into that huge library of files, especially since there are plenty of other reasonable things that I might have searched while trying to find something to justify this anti-woke claim that maybe wouldn't have led to the same results as the one that you put in.
I don't think that it's not much to ask that if people want to make a claim that they should at least provide the actual source for it, rather than just gesturing to a million files and saying "it's in there, find it, and if you don't want to find it, you're a piece of shit".
You know what, that's a fair take. I suppose I've been keeping up with this stuff more than the average bear, so connections that may seem obvious to me may not be to people who don't have that same knowledge base.
I suppose the annoyed feeling comes from folks who have been keeping up with this stuff who feel like they have to keep proving that grifters like Steve Bannon are using words as weapons to gain power instead of standing by anything. Proof of right wing grifters being fascists keeps popping up, so it feels like playing whack a mole whenever someone asks for proof.
I'm on the web since 90s and I saw this unroll first hand. The social media gave people immense power to organize and validate each other and it took a while for the billionaires to catch up but once they learned of this power they had no choice but to oppose it. They succeeded and now we generally treat social media as net negative and fight "the woke" for them using our own resources.
It's not a unique, new problem. This what happens with every almost every new technology which starts as legit useful tool that gets captured by bad actors. This is why decentralization and societal hedging is important - we must move quickly, broadly and embrace new tech before the big battleship of doom turns towards us. Guerilla warfare on the bleeding edge is the best path forward!
Thanks for coming to my ted talk 🙏
Edit: actually a very relevant article just dropped on the verge that illustrates this through Epstein emails and how they were coordinating against #metoo movement https://www.theverge.com/tech/874721/epstein-thiel-musk-trump-metoo
Not being a pedo is so woke
Now replace "anti-woke culture war" with "AI" and it still works
And Qanon/Pizzagate, because -- say it with me, now -- it's always projection.
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ochestated by RUSSIA mostly, working with the billionaires, almost any comment you see online has been suspected of being a russian bot at some point.
The kremlin definitely pushed it because they benefited from it.
But it’s not that simple.
This is more a convergence of the interests of a lot of powerful actors.
That means yes the Kremlin, but to a probably more significant extent, the billionaires, the corporations and much more.
We lost the Cold War, it didn't end when the USSR collapsed. The task was to destroy the other's government without incurring nukes and Russia won overwhelmingly.
Though after the Ukraine war seems like China's the only global winner in all this.
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It may have also been the cause of the big woke movement
Not that I doubt it, I don't, but uhhh...
Source? Please?
Nobody is posting the source because there's literally nothing in the documents that shows this. People really do just believe anything as long as they want it to be true.
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