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PaperclipPerfector  6mo ago (text post)   3442 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 7, 2024

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This evening, I learned that there's a Wikipedia article dedicated to /pol/.

Reading it was a real walk down memory lane. Anyone remember #SuperStraight?

Should I be paying attention to /pol/? Serious question.

A decade ago, yes. For the past ~four years it is all bots designed to cause psychological damage to you (unironically). If you have some keyword and want to see the discussions there, just go on 4Plebs and type in your inquiry.

Of all sad words,

Of tongue and pen,

The saddest are these:

"/pol/ was right again."

I used to laugh at schizophrenic /pol/tards (who to be fair are pretty easy to laugh at) but the board does have its use cases, although it definitely requires mental filters to avoid brain-melting schizo exposure. Personal highlight is probably the happy little Chabad hobby tunneling accident, when every single American media outlet went totally radio silent while waiting for orders and literally the only place on the internet where I could find actual videos and happenings in the immediate wake were the scattered /pol/ threads popping on and off the catalog. It's decently documented now but it felt quite surreal at the moment, I don't laugh as much anymore and think such a place is definitely handy to have on the rare occasion that the fabric of reality tears so obviously.

Similarly with the Capitol riot -- it's pretty good live newsfeed aggregator on... things that are interesting to poltards I guess. You do need to figure out how to disregard the things that are completely made up, but it's usually easier to tell what that is than other media outlets.

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