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Maybe it's not diverse because people like you who hold opposing viewpoints are not interested in changing their opinion despite the fact that you can post just as much as they can without being judged for who you are. Is this something you have considered?

Account is 12 minutes old.

2 hours old now.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Hey moot, we know you're reading this.

Just want to say you did a good job, thanks for being you and doing your thing. I know it's been tough and all, so thanks for the hard work.

Dunno about google maps though, that seemed to have taken a dive since ~2013. Maybe look into biotech and that jazz, it needs people like you.

Still, be good to see what you're doing next. Keep up that hard work and effort, it shows.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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They are agitators and trolls, and you took the bait.

The young white supremacists being radicalized online are taking the bait. The bait is this silly narrative that the reason they talk in depth and at length everyday about exterminating non-Whites is because it's elaborate "trolling" to own the libs, until they start sprinkling in enough "justification" and repetition to radicalize you into becoming a white supremacists. Sadly many young men are taking the bait and b…

You're echoing and embracing a narrative of fear. Tell me, is the white supremacy in the room with you now?

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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They are agitators and trolls, and you took the bait.

The young white supremacists being radicalized online are taking the bait. The bait is this silly narrative that the reason they talk in depth and at length everyday about exterminating non-Whites is because it's elaborate "trolling" to own the libs, until they start sprinkling in enough "justification" and repetition to radicalize you into becoming a white supremacists. Sadly many young men are taking the bait and b…

You keep taking the bait. Stop being so emotional, jesus. Use logic

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

There's plenty of other boards on 4chan where you can find people from all viewpoints posting. /cgl/ is well known to be majority female, and posters on /lit/ usually express center or left viewpoints. Even on /pol/, within a thread there will often be dissenters from the normal far-right average poster. Compared to other sites like Reddit where communities and posters with certain viewpoints are straight up banned,…

The fact that posters have to engage with a contradictory post instead of just downvoting it as on reddit has always been the strongest suit of 4chan. It's a great foil to the tiresome hivemind-eyness and tendency for only 'approved' opinions to be allowed to flourish on reddit.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Cops aren't allowed to murder people on sight -- "junkie" or otherwise. Never understood why people seem to think this is a compelling argument.

There is an argument being made by many on the right that the overdose was his actual cause of death because he spoke of not being able to breath etc before he was restrained & had a large amount of fentanyl in his system. That being said, the initial autopsy said this was only one factor and most people with this view are misreading that autopsy, which still stated the primary cause of death was compression of the n…

> (...) & had a large amount of fentanyl in his system.

This bullshit conspiracy theory should die already.

George Floyd had less fentanyl in his system at time of death than over 75% of the people that the police examined during routine DUI cases taken when were alive and not dead due to fentanyl overdose.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/16/fact...

Those parroting the fentanyl conspiracy theory are desperately grasping at straws to try to justify their irrational beliefs.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Why couldn't he breathe in the back of the car?

'speedballs' and exertion from resisting arrest, he swallowed his entire stash of drugs to avoid going to jail to make matters worse he had severe hypertension and was hospitalized in 2019 during similar arrest with BP of 210 on 130, his heart just couldn't handle it this time

> 'speedballs' and exertion from resisting arrest (...)

Does that "exertion" include a grown man kneeling on your neck while you repeatedly and desperately tell him that the knee on his neck is stopping him from breeding?

Because, even taking that claim at face value, it's pretty clear that removing the risk factor of having a grown police officer kneeling on your back and neck in a way that's stopping you from breeding would be something that did wonders to your ability to continue breeding and not die.

Enough with this bullshit whitewashing of a brutal police murder.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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I've spent a fair amount of time on 4chan/pol/ for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don't think Google would have hired him if it weren't for that redeeming quality. I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It's anonymous so people around the world can express themsel…

In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

If you compare this list to the types of posts you see on Facebook/Twitter etc. then it's actually quite diverse. I'm not advocating for the good of those topics, but the argument against 4chan is usually "this should never be talked about anywhere". Credit where credit is due: 4chan contains discussions of topics you will not and cannot find on mainstream social media.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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It's funny. I've been browsing 4chan all month and I havent seen any gore or pedos. Maybe a few leud pictures (less than 10). Maybe you should actually visit the site instead of just spreading misinformation.

I took you up on that, and visited the technology interest area /g/ Post #1: Comment using the N word Post #2: Someone using "fag" to insult people who, presumably, use Arch linux. (The term was Archfags) Post #3: In response to something about headphones: "that deaf faggot [n-word]" So it's funny. I've been browsing 4chan for 5 minutes and couldn't avoid racism & homophobia in the very first things I saw. Maybe you…

So we went from "it's nothing but pedos and porn" to "there are some bad words on there". If you find that offensive, maybe stay away from the internet.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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It's hilarious after all these years shitty journalists still believe Anonymous is a hacker group rather than just some kids trolling. I mean imagine if Facebook had the option to be anonymous somehow on their platform and called everyone Unnamed who hadn't finished their registration or didn't want to. You'd see Unnamed responsible for nation-state sponsored terrorism and manipulating the votes of other countries. W…

They were indeed a hacker group at one point. The "everyone is Anonymous" thing worked as an effective smokescreen for a while, and a pool for recruiting. It's like gaming, or sports: tons of people do it casually on the edges, and a handful at the top do it at a very high level for high stakes.

Eventually they moved beyond fun, simple little social causes to more seriously disruptive and economically/politically dangerous stuff, and at that point, not surprisingly, the alphabet agencies slipped in and broke up the party.

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