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      The Internet, where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

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          People like margot robbie here are enough reason to know that this shitpost is not making any good points, it’s literally a joke

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            Margot robbie is that woman from stranger things right? I’m lost on the reference here though, is she super sexist against other women or something? I only really know her from that show 🤔

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              When was I ever in Stranger Things? I was recently in a fairly popular movie. You may have seen ads for it in the last few months.

              Also, that’s esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

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                It’s so weird that you keep it up. You’ve been committed to this for like half a year basically every day now?

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                  I had a friend who roleplayed as Napoleon on Facebook for multiple years. You just need dedication (plus they told me it was pretty entertaining).

                  Not that it has anything to do with Ms. Robbie here, obviously.

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                    Your friend sounds like he would make a good actor! After all, a good actor always has to be 100% committed to their role at all times.

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                May I see a video, of you holding up today’s newspaper, with the date visibly showing, with a shoe on your head? Then I will know you are real. Can’t trust pictures these days.

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          I’ve yet to see it happen, but if it does, let me know.

          4chan seems to just be a place for emotionally stunted incels and wannabe sex offenders to hang out and share their deeply misguided views.

          It makes you wonder what sort of human being actually pays to keep the place running and thinks they’re doing good :-(

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            thinks they’re doing good :-(

            Maybe they’re trying to keep them in one place, where thry can be observed?

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            Most people think it’s just kind of a free speech hellhole, but it’s not, that’s just the coat of paint the site took on/has always slightly had. Remnants of an idealized 1990’s internet space where people thought everything would be free to use and free to access, and the storage would be infinite, ironically concocted by out-of-touch yuppies who didn’t work on the pipes. In reality, free speech bullshit is always just a cover for admins to be able to enforce whatever totally inconsistent rules that they want without any form of repercussion, because obviously there are limits, even just legally, in terms of keeping the site up, and keeping it free from commercial spam, and having advertisers stay on. Most rules you can concoct have some sort of exception, or lack of clarity, or are too restrictive, so it really just falls down to some arbitrary decision as to what stays around and what doesn’t.

            With sites like 4chan, it isn’t so much that “free speech” just inevitably leads to this tragedy of the commons where everyone becomes or is taken over by racists and incels, it’s more that active decisions are made to turn these sites into shitholes by malignant actors, because sites like 4chan are the easiest targets, and have a kind of natural selection bias towards the type of people they want to recruit. They take advantage of this fact that “free speech” is obfuscating the actual moderation and enforcement of the site, and then use it to promote whatever ideologies they want, like a little internet meme terrarium, or maybe more of a virus cell culture. Then, this attracts other malignant actors, some of whom are even funded by different states, who work within the bounds of the site to advance it one step further, until you have a kind of horrible coalition of different ideas all stewing together.

            Thus, most of the people who run the site nowadays are white supremacist dicks, funded by a hands-off japanese internet techbro libtertarian, and toy company “Good Smile”.

            Which is all kind of tragic, because, like that one guy said, it’s responsible for a novel mathematical proof, the revival of a british indie rock band, the beginnings of anonymous, probably some other cool stuff I can’t remember. Lots of early classic internet memes, of course. It’s not all bad, really, it’s just the lowest hanging fruit of web forum. Sometimes that’s shitty, but then sometimes you get draw*** threads, where artists will go in and take low-pressure requests or concoct some sort of forum-game. Idealized, it’s sort of like pub bathroom graffiti, or something. Which isn’t really nefarious, is never serious, is sometimes charming, and very very occasionally is beautiful, useful, or novel.

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            Man, it’s freedom of speech. I can ask the same questions before cutting out and blocking some of the most polarized communities on Lemmy.

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            4chan isn’t really that bad honestly. It’s just the epitome of “FrEe SpEeCh”, and as a consequence it attracts a crapton of social outcasts who finally have a place to vent their horrible opinions.

            The 10% of the site that isn’t talking about women or politics is actually pretty nice.

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              Hours after the Charlottesville car attack that killed Heather Heyer I went to /b/ to see if anyone wanted to virtually protest the alt-right white supremacist websites, and it was filled with post after post urging people to kill more protestors with their cars.

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                Because that’s virtually the only place where you can do that and not get banned. So obviously all the nutjobs flocked there to do it.

                Doesn’t change that there’s still fun discussion sometimes on the site, although it’s hardly worth it when it’s so full of misogyny and alt-right propaganda. I admire the people that manage to stay sane in there.

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        Sometimes I wonder if he was trying to be deep somehow or if he just dropped a 10 sheet before going on twitter.

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          I think he heard some philosophy stuff out of context or over simplified, and was knee deep in inferences when he tweeted that. Something like:

          • The only thing we know with certainty that we exist.

          • So we don’t know if anything, including what we perceive, is real.

          • If our perception could be fake, we can’t even know that our sensory organs, like eyes, are real.

          • However, in my perceived life, I can look at myself in a mirror, and see my own body and my own eyes.

          • If my perception isn’t real, and my eyes aren’t real, how can I see them in that mirror?

          • If our eyes aren’t real, we wouldn’t be able to see them in a mirror for… some reason.

          • But my name is Jaden Smith, and I can’t understand that a fake reality could trick me into thinking I see my own eyes, so I think being able to see my eyes in a mirror means my eyes must be real, the mirror must be real, and the physical world exists with certainty. I disproved solipsism guys!

          In all seriousness, I don’t think he believed his eyes weren’t real, he was asking a rhetorical question that he thought proved something deep. However, because he was a dumb teenager, he thought he could figure out something no one in history ever considered, and was thus making some grand contribution to society.