People talk about how goo /pol/ used to be, but how different was it really?
Was the demographic significantly different?
Were there better memes?
What memes died?
More real actual info. Infographics too!
>>69951956
I think there was one fag who could triforce.
it was slower, mostly. so replies were more thought out and new OC was common.
the board was less lol racism and lol jews. there was a coherent political stance rather than just "whatever mr. t seyz"
>>69951956
More statistics-based discussions
Less needless shitposting
>>69951956
Slower board - more discussion - less shitposting -alot more racist which drove the new fags away until m00t got butthurt and nuked us.
>>69951956
Yep. Old /pol/ would've voted Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz but now it's been taken over by racists and idiots who think it's right to kill anything that isn't Christian or white. Now they support a racist and a fascist. /pol/ has changed for the worst. Ron Paul would be disappointed.
>>69953708
This is bait
>>69951956
It used to be more academic, and way more serious. The discussion was full of citations and a lot of weird evidence. The arguments were put together by intelligent nutcases.
Today, it's more of a meme factory. Sometimes I fear we've become the right-wing version of Tumblr.
>>69951956
WE ARE IN AN ELECTION CYCLE!
/POL WILL SETTLE DOWN AFTER PRESIDENT SANDERS TAKES OFFICE...
>>69953855
"To a troll, the truth will look like bait" -Winston Churchill
>>69952354
>shitposting
>>69952354
Shut up Panjeet. Learn how to shit in a toliet.
>>69953708
paul couldn't win and I jumped ship to Trump early before all the racist stuff.
You also sound like a fucking baby
>>69953940
I become erect when I stumble upon old /pol/ threads every now and then.
>>69951956
I only regularly come here around elections, and it is always turns into a shit show.
Old /pol/ was like current /pol/ except without nearly as much shitposting. I think flags and IDs ruined it, because instead of attacking someone's argument (literally the only thin you can do on an anonymous imageboard, which is what drives on topic discussion), everyone just makes jokes about your country. there's pretty much no difference between this and /int/
>>69951956
>Banned from going to school for trolling and making a project in English
>never sit with black people
>Never have friends irl
idk there is more
>>69951956
Australia was shitpost king.
Less forced memes like DUDE WEED LMAO or POO IN LOO.
Really fuckin neato infographics.
Lot of good risk/civilization threads
>>69954291
This and gamergate brought all the shiteposters here from /int/, /b/, /v/ and other crap boards.
>>69954445
and not getting quads.
fuck
>>69954291
poo in loo jokes are still supreme
plus its fun to 'mire aussie shitposting
>>69951956
This guy is responsible for what happened to /pol/
>>69951956
I remember when 4chan was good.
>>69951956
It changed for the better. More serious now. We're actually doing stuff.
>>69954455
>DUDE WEED LMAO
That was /tv/. We just use it to shut Canada down.
>Really fuckin neato infographics.
A lot of them were wrong. The ones that still get reposted are the good ones.
>Lot of good risk/civilization threads
Those are bad.
>>69954502
what Im saying is that it's indistinguishable from other boards now.
those memes are funny on /int/ but when you just get meme'd on whats meant to be a serious board, it really kills it
>>69951956
>the board was less lol racism and lol jews.
not actually true. if anything there was more stormtardation than there is now
a lot of the stormtards went to infinitychan, thankfully
>>69954812
A lot of the boards (such as /b/) have gone really downhill.
Right now however is probably the glory days of /pol/. We are literally electing the shitposter in chief. We're in the news every other day. These are the epic glory days that will be talked about for years to come
>>69954268
ITT newfags pretending to be oldfags
>>69954291
IDs improved things
less samefagging is a huge improvement
>>69955224
I become sad when I realize I am in the golden days of /pol/.
The last 6 months have been truly epic (I do not use that word lightly). It reminds me of being 15 and surfing on /b/ during it's glory days.
>>69955061
true. it would be nice for a few things to be changed around to shed the normies that came from Trump and Milo. wish the mods could be a little more aware of the situation.
>>69955310
no fag I'm actually an old fag that isn't part of your delusions of how things used to be
>>69951956
yes, /pol/ used to be A LOT better. we had fantastic memes. only oldfags remember AIDS SKRILLEX and Carl the Cuck.
>>69955224
Jesus Christ, /b on a Friday night is like a 10 and under birthday party. Shit everywhere
>>69951956
It was good, then sucked, and then Donald Trump made /pol/ great again.
>>69955715
newfag leave. If you don't remember Jeb-posting then GTFO
>>69951956
NO MKULTRA
NO PEDOWOOD
NO DORNER
ITS NOT 2013 ANYMORE
NO SECRET PATCHES
I MISS THIS SHIT LADS!!!
NO DEEP UNDERGROUND BASES
>>69953940
This. I remember at time when you brought a source with every post.
I miss those days.
>>69955494
I wasn't intending to respond to you, actually
how "old" do you consider "old", tho?
were you even here before the election?
>>69955224
>such as /b/
/b/ has been shit for years.
>>69951956
Space Elevator
>>69951956
>>69955822
This, it used tone lolbertarian rams paul shit for awhile, but still politically diverse.Then we grew up and realized we need to MAGA
>>69956471
No,
you faggots need to wake up from this Dog and Pony Show and realize that old /pol/ was a litter less cringey /x/
we need more MK ULTRA GLOBALIST PEDOWOOD UNDERGROUNDBASE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM and of course THE JEW CONNECTION
>>69956884
Actually, when I first started browsing /pol/, it reminded me of a really academic version of /x/ where people basically wrote out essays.
Anyone else been here since /news/?
I wish I could remember how I even got here.
>>69956315
/b/ was pretty okay when it first started out
Then moot started making new boards and whatever good content /b/ had started shifting to those other boards
After that the only thing left in /b/ was absolute fucking cancer
>>69957242
Where did you last make a bowel movement?
>>69957112
I have no idea either but I remember that I used to only browse /a/ and then I got here somehow
Of course, back then moot the faggot hadn't introduced flags yet so I could say whatever I want without getting spammed with boo in loo :DD
>>69957363
In the designated street at 6 am in the morning
"Early to bed, Early to shit" is my motto
>>69957596
I have a legit questin,
What happens when you wake up in the middle of the night with a bellyache from all that curry?
Do you go running out of your home toward the shitting street?
What happens if you don't make it?
>>69957960
Wherever his bowels decide to empty themselves becomes his new designated shitting spot.
>>69957960
In such an emergency situation, I'm forced to use the loo inside my house even though I'm afraid that the toilet witch might get me
I mean what can ya do, desperate times call for desperate measures
>>69958142
I'll have you know that shitting in an undesignated street is a punishable offence that can land you with even life imprisonment depending on the severity of the offence
>>69958248
>toilet witch
I would be clinched so tight, spraying shitwater all over the bathroom.
>>69958362
Sometimes if you're lucky, the toilet witch happens to be hot
So you can put benis is bagina :DDDD
>>69951956
/b/ grew up and took the red pill.
>>69956310
Thatsracist.gif
>>69958660
While you're spraying shitwater out of your ass?
Sounds like the toilet witch is a kinky bitch.
>>69951956
there used to be trigger warnings on every post and literally every 3rd word you typed was changed to something else
cuck, was impossible to type
also a youtube video of a girl talking about cucking men played automatically when you came here
>>69958853
Her name is literally "Toilet Witch"
Of course she's kinky
>>69959052
my ex had piss fetish, i called her my toilet witch behind her back. If i had only known it would become a meme
>I miss those days.
>>69959173
G-Gf? H-haha I'm MGTOW
>>69954334
>▲
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It used to be 80% misleading infographics and statistics, 10% terrible discussion, and 10% pretty good discussion. And now it's just /b/ 3.0, neo-reactionary edition, and it was even more /b/ before the mods actually fucking cracked down on cuckold porn shitposting which I'm pretty sure was a significant contributor to 'cuck' gaining traction on the farthest fucking regions of the internet. Which really just goes to show you that any meme can be forced if you believe in yourself hard enough.
Regardless /pol/ has always been shit, like every other board on 4chan ever, but now it is a different kind of shit. A new, evolved sort of garbage. Is it a superior sort of garbage? Can one garbage be objectively better than another garbage? That's your moral crisis to figure out.
Queer.
>>69951956
Too many shills of all types
>>69951956
/pol/ used to be more traditionally conservative.
Now it's filled with r9k beta males and /v/ spillover from Gamergate, so it's probably 60% NEET shutin faggots that love anime.
Memes were always garbage and always will be. They're dumb stale jokes for low tier morons.
>>69954291
Trust me straya if you actually had an argument worth countering with reasoning the flags wouldn't be needed.
>>69955381
you can samefag with IDs if you're no a massive sperg.
>>69959599
You're a lot less cool and intelligent than you think you are
>>69960388
Okay?
>>69960167
Yah, I know. phone posting, proxy, etc.
still, it helps, and not just with samefagging
it helps keep the debate/conversation coherent
>>69951956
Best rarest meme team of the ancient /b/
>>69951956
There were way less shills and less media attention. Over time reddit cucks amd tumblr fags washed through the boards. Even space elevator up and fucked off
Careful, people, someone is trying to tap into the secrets of ancient memes. OP is a govt shill
>>69960895
This. And flags too tbqh. For some reason when I see an idiotic, self righteous post anywhere else I am urged to take the bait. When I see a sweden or german flag posting that same opinion I don't get bent out of shape about it, I now just kinda feel bad for Europe.
It also forces people to grow a pair of balls and get some think skin. If you are Indian, you get the low effort memes. If you are Aussie you better have some good shitposting skills are you are worthless. If you are Canadi-
>FUCKING LEAF STOP SHITPOSTING
It's also pretty cool to see international posters outside of /int/, because face it there is nothing to talk about there.
>>69952354
Pretty much this. Flags made it possible to go after an aspect of the person rather than being forced to criticise their argument or actual post in order to call them a faggot.
>>69959359
>▲
>▲ ▲
there were a lot more nazis. The really hardcore nazis left for 8 though. /pol/ has actually become a lot more centrist and a lot less nazi. There were never this many leftists here before. We have also become a lot more like /int/ due to the flags. Honestly I don't come here as much anymore now. While I don't agree with the nazis, they would have really long and thought out posts.
>>69962307
Basically made ad-hominems possible in an anonymous board
>>69951956
The mods used to do their jobs and ban people who violated the sticky.
>>69951956
redtit diluted the /pol/acks
that means you OP
>>69951956
It was a lot less fun, and way waaaaaaay slower.
>>69951956
Daily reminder that I never see the whitest man in Argentina any more. That was a pretty forced meme for a while.
>>69962453
This tbqh
I see so many "Is X Degeneracy?" and "Why do white women prefer black men so much and why can't whites deal with it?" posts and they take so fucking long to get deleted but if someone posts a risk thread or a hunger games thread, it gets deleted in less than 2 minutes
>>69951956
People here used to be redpilled. Now it is people who have perverted that term to mean being against only illegal immigration and wanting to build a wall. A lot of people meme about jews, but they don't even know why actual redpilled people hate them. They just think they're funny because they have big noses or something. Milo's article on the alt right was correct if you are talking about /pol/. This board sucks and it's all Trump's fault. Half these faggots will probably vote for Hillary come election day and the other half aren't even old enough to vote.
>>69951956
a few years ago it was 90% stormfags.. then they started letting you choose your flag affiliation and that was kinda gay, now its gay as fuck cause god forsaken isralies are allowed to post. :(
ntm aussies.. its sad
>>69962307
How is that any different from greentexting a little detail about a post, like a "trigger word" or a fallacy, and low effort troll the shit out of them? At least flag shitposting is entertaining and kind of evolves with the board. Calling them a JIDF or BIDF shill when you can't debate your position properly was funny at first, but eventually it just got desperate. Low energy, not very fun.
Plus, I wouldn't be able to call you Achmed and laugh at your lack of sharp objects.
>>69962784
Nowadays the speed and the mass of replies are the only defense against shilling.
>>69951956
more actual discussion and less retarded memes
>>69962951
I find it surprising that many of the members here think that the anti-semitism and jewish elite owning most corporations is an "ironic meme xDdD"
>>69963004
zim zam, boston bomber, were golden age of pol, what am I leaving out?
>>69955470
this
>>69963168
its surprising that you have cleaned enough human feces off your hands to use a keyboard
>>69955470
roy
>>69955224
>we're in the glory days of /pol/
our golden age started with the Zimmerman trial, didnt it?
>>69954812
If you mean /b/ then no, I don't.
>>69955470
Zimmerman was more of a hero than trump if I am remembering correctly.
>>69963211
Any excuse to post this
>>69962445
Ad Hominems were always possible here, anon. Pick a weakly worded point in the OP post, exaggerate and twist the point to fit into an insult. Add some greentext and the current spicey meme and Tada, shitpost.
>>69963256
>implying that i'm not typing with shit stained hands right now
>>69963506
did that russian muslim tshitikov set off a sonic wave bomb at that specific runner?
>>69963563
heheheu
There was a big clash between staunch small govt libertarians and Communists
Those were the 2 main groups I remember
>he wasn't on /pol/ when an anime thread could last a week
>he wasn't here when Greece and Libya were the Happenings
>>69963507
They were possible earlier but it wasn't as easy as it is currently
Right now, its just ad hominems only
Actual debate has become obsolete
"Oh fuck I'm in a bit of a twist here. You've defeated me in an intellectual argument, but i noticed that your flag is Canadian
>A FUCKING LEAF"
Get my point?
>>69963443
As much as I love Trump, this
Only /pol/ understood the memes
>>69963398
Yes
I would have thought it ended after Dorner as well
Oh how I am happy to have been wrong
>>69963698
I cant ever remember a time when commie traitors were on pol you must be old school when actual intelligent debate happened here.
>>69956450
>>69952338
>Less racism
How far back are you talking? Remember in 2012 when any reply that didn't fit the /pol/ narrative was told "Fuck off JIDF, MIDF, etc"
>>69963744
Official list of countries that can't handle the bantz:
1. India
2. ???
Nothing compared to the original /int/ or /new/
It was 3x racist and muh jews
>>69963010
Because you are attacking their post, not the little flag above it. It's still possible to shitpost at an anonymous post, but it keeps the focus on that post.
What used to drive the board was the evolution of arguments rather than which flag is persona non grata this month, as that was all you could attack.
Memesters love it, but it drives away people who are at last half serious occasionally. I'm only still here because I remember what this place used to be and have the naive hope of fixing it. When the memesters get tired of flags, and that shitposting had now become the "point" of the board, what then? This place becomes a wasteland as the brains that provided what the kiddies would meme at have fucked off and this place becomes another /b/ with more racism. Modern /b/ that is.
But alas... Nostalgia is not virtuous :(
goodnight pol
>>69963744
I get your point, I just prefer it this way to be honest. Discussion is still to be found, and what use to end in people trolling each other now ends in country bantz.
Sure, it is lower effort, but it is also lower effort to recognize there is no longer serious discussion to be had. I spend less time responding to bait with flags and flag memes than I use to.
>>69963885
My friend I assure you that Indians can in fact handle the bantz
Well at least I can
Or I wouldn't have lasted here that long
And why the persecution? I was basically saying that its stupid that someone's opinions are discarded simply because of their flag
>>69964139
but come on.. you cant take a Turks word seriously
>>69951956
Every board is always changing. /pol/'s greatness relies on Happenings. This Trump Happening has been a bountiful meme harvest.
Anyone who freaks out about /pol/ being shit must be a newfag. Its the natural cycle of the boards
>>69964042
Everyone appreciates good bantz
I guess the one thing that's good about the introduction of flags is that its easy to identify the shills now, eg. Israeli flags shilling for joos and Turkey flags shilling for muzzies
/pol/ is a pretty cool guy, eh builds wall and doesn't afraid of anything
When was /pol/ first forged, anon? I've been a /b/tard since 2005-6 and basically abandoned 4chan during college from 2009 to 2013. I've always been very political and was a nubile Libertarian back then, but I don't remember /pol/ existing then?
pic related is oc
>>69963773
i think we have done alright for what we are these last few years.
the Alt-right is now a thing, everyone with a brain knows niggers gonna nig and people remember how much we hated muslims and why.
then again, the opposite side of the horseshoe was galvanized as well.
Anti-fa i every city, communists like Merkal rule, and the media hates right winger's with a passion.
long days are ahead to bring balance to the force.
>>69964236
I remember when /sp/ was the happening board.
Then jew mods shut it down
I wish I wouldve been here for gamergate (I recently got my job and barely had time for internets back then)
Shit would have been so cash
>>69964361
>long days are ahead to bring balance to the force.
we just need a white woman and nigger to get it started
I miss the good old days.
>>69964391
you didnt miss much
everyone hated us and the media painted us as ebil mysogginesst who hates wymmin
>>69964228
Yeah, I did say that on my next post
That's the one benefit of flags
We can identify Turkroaches and Shlomos
>>69964438
Well we've got Ann Coulter I guess
>>69964493
not that balance, mate
>>69964530
B.. but all the drama!
All the media coverage!
>>69964545
Coulter and Dorner would have made an epic pairing
>>69964667
It was shite
Didn't really feel special, felt like just another day on /pol/
I felt more excited when Zimmerman happened than during GG
>>69964646
meant for
>>69964438
>>69964678
wow
>>69964794
>Jaffa calling
>JAFFA CALLING
>>69964794
But all the bans? And moot being a backstabber?
Stormfags and conspiracy theorists. Constant panic over the Jews. /pol/ has just gone mainstream now.
>>69964795
I thought you were implying that force was awakening. my bad
>>69964865
you like that?
Remember mr "i shot my old coworkers because the strategically placed watermelon was racist to me" from a few months back?
now it's just a maturized /b/ 2.0
>>69964258
Ah, well now that there seems to no longer be any further discussion to be had here, let me be the first to conclude this conversation as has been deemed appropriate by the parties involved.
Poo in loo
08 pol was full of idiots who voted for obama even agian in 2012 "RMONEY LOL2x
>>69964493
You guys are too cynical to realize how incredible pol has become. It's like a star about to go supernova. This election cycle will probably destroy pol, at the end of it we won't know what to do with ourselves and many will disperse. But right now we are attaining power levels that few boards could have imagined years ago. Pol has surpassed /b/ at its height and continues to grow in influence.
Pol is on the news every other day now, we're actively dismantling the careers of established journalists and pundits like Beck and Shapiro, we're using brute force to ram scandals and conspiracies down the throats of CNN and other media pundits, we're getting fuckin pepes and meme videos retweeted by a man who might very likely be the next goddamn president, and the general election hasn't even begun.
Pol is fun as fuck when things get happening. On a day like Brussels, or Paris, or an election night, pol is the place to be. When things aren't happening, yeah, it's pretty much /b/ 3.0 but when shit goes down pol shines brighter than anywhere else online. There are posters from around the world feeding us information. It's the perfect level of popularity where the sheer amount of input makes for something hilarious and powerful.
Yeah, it's about to either get too popular and die, or the election will end and it will die, but either way, for the next few months, just strap in and enjoy. This is the golden age of this entire stupid fucking website.
>>69951956
>>69965004
yes
>way less JIDF
>way less MIDF
>way less shitposters (actually the old shitposters used to be way funnier that this basic shitposting happening now)
>way more informative discussions
>way less people who have facts at hand ready to counter you
>there wasnt the influx of youngfags who made this place more /b/-like
>no shills fucking everywhere
>no residents of other sites making /pol/ their designated shitposting site since /pol/ started being mentioned in more mainstream outlets
>memery was not taken to such extreme where 9gag tier retards would lach on
>>69965166
>way MORE people who had facts at hand ready to counter you
>>69964897
JAFFA
>>69964901
I thought /pol/ would just die at that point
We went to 8ch for a while but I didn't really like it dunno why
>>69958934
that was during gamergate wasnt it?
>>69965327
8ch is pretty fucking shit, man
praise /britpol/ for keeping us here.
>>69965595
Agreed
Brits can be faggots sometimes but /britpol/ was the light in the time of darkness and I love them for that
>>69965147
saved
>>69951956
Used to be more actual political discussion.
Used to be a lot more NatSocs, fascists and reactionaries too.
This board changed a lot after the cuckening and GG.
>>69965147
I pray for a Trump v Hillary run for the debate threads holy shit what glory will we witness.
>>69965166
>>way less shitposters (actually the old shitposters used to be way funnier that this basic shitposting happening now)
that's how i came here from /b.
i would come to shitpost and throw the stormfags into a tantrum.
it was so easy too.
>>69965953
I've seen way more NatSoc here now then back in 2012 tbqh.
>>69965147
Wow, an actual good post from a fucking leaf.
>>69966069
>hehe 69 xDDD
Yeah that's true though, there has been an increase in NatSoc threads although there has also been an increase in newfags who think that anti-semitism is ironic shitposting
>>69951956
i remember there used to be a lot more history threads 4 or 5 years ago, and they were pretty in depth, too.
Moot ruined /pol/ by adding flags and removing the reply timer.
for the first week straight the board was flodded with interracial porn "what did she mean by this?" threads.
>>69966893
We have /his/ now for that, which isn't good either because the mods said "let the communists have a board, you have enough /pol/"
>>69967001
/his/ has extreme left wing bias tho
Can't corner the dorner, flim flam the zim zam, it's happening, based Putin, etc.
These are all pre cuck memes. The proliferation of cuck on /pol/ marks the dividing line between old and new /pol/ imo
>>69966974
This. It was hell. Really crashed this plane with no survivors. The absolute madman.
>>69951956
/pol/ was shit, is shit and will always be shit. See it from that point of view and you'll realize how even it is.
>>69952354
>shitposting
DESIGNATED
>>69967787
FUG :DD
>>69965147
Fug, I'm scared what will happen to /pol/ once Trump loses and Shillary becomes president. Everyone intelligent here knows that will be the end result. Trumps got zero chance in the general and even in a 1 on 1 battle with Cruz he would have a hard time getting >50% of the republicans to side with him. I'll still vote for him because there's no one better but I hope there isn't a mass an-heroing on here just because the god emperor lost to the Shillary industrial complex.
>>69967974
This place i basically old 2004-7 /int/ because of flags.
>>69952232
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why was the ability to do it ever removed
>>69968094
Maybe I am maybe not :'DDD
>>69964438
Good goy
>>69968267
oh wait i cant eat burger is covered in poo :-DDDDDDDDD
>>69968026
Keep faith famalam
Faint glimmer of hope that we can win
>>69968467
just eat poo burger u only lib once :DDDDD
>>69968563
oh no eati poo purger gave ebola is kill x-DDDD
>>69968149
You can still do it on blue boards
>>69968647
fug u found out i want kill u :-DDDD
r u jooish? x-DD
>>69954499
But a nice pair of double dubs tho
>>69968695
Really?
That's weird
>>69951956
i wouldn't say /pol/ was good but it used to be an actual political board back in the days.
instead of the stormfag meme fest circle jerk.
/pol/ literally became a caricature of itself
>>69951956
Biggest changes since I started browsing is the sheer amount of shitposting.
As the board has gotten more popular, the signal to noise ratio has gone down.
That's it, really. There's not too much difference in content. /pol/ has always more or less believed the same things since it was /new/ and probably since it was /n/ but I wasn't around on it back then.
There were no flags, way less shitposting, virtually zero shills, there were no "/pol/ BTFO!!!" threads because nearly every thread was by a pro-/pol/ person pointing out some liberal insanity and shilling twitter, /pol/ was much more creative and funny and cohesive in the past. Moot introduced flags specifically to cause disruption and nationalist infighting because /pol/ was getting too powerful and it worked because now the amount of nationalist in-fighting memes that have sprung up to divide /pol/ (indian shit, eternal anglo, leafposters) are all over the place. People used to shill twitter more, less young people, much more stormfags and people who knew their shit. When I was on old /pol/ in the IQ threads the discussions were incredible and the amount of refs to papers you'd never heard of were all over the place. Stuff like Factual Falcon used to happen and it would be far far more intellectual and rigorous. Neo-/pol/ is faster and more normie thanks to Trump but probably has a wider and more disparate impact. Of course all the old intellectual die hards migrated to 8pol where they run a tightly enforced white nationalist echo chamber and navel gaze among themselves pretending they are still in control. I wouldn't say it's much worse now, it's just transformed into something that is very different. We still have good stuff like all the Trump memes and the birth of Kek.
The only thing that I miss is how little "/pol/ BTFO" threads there used to be. Back in the day when /pol/ was rising, it was liberals being criticised on the first post of every thread, but because this place got too big and drew plebbitors in, it attracted people who wanted to try and "take down /pol/" so we have these stupid low effort shitposting threads. Oh yeah, there was way more Jew-posting and accusing others of being JIDF.
>>69969370
I fucking hate the /pol/ BTFO threads so much
>>69968891
/jp/ even has [aa] [/aa] enabled
>>69969370
Some of us are still around.
Personally, I collected data and statistics on guns, and secondly on race (to a lesser degree)
I browse 8ch's /pol/ board about as much as I do 4chan's, because 8ch has much better signal to noise ratio and the mods actually sticky some seriously relevant and informative stuff literally every day.
8ch's great for catching up on stuff you missed on 4chan because 4chan moves at the speed of shitpost and everything is slid off the front page inside of 30 seconds if it isn't some click-bait tier HAPPENING crap.
>>69968996
This is a lie. /pol/ was right Wight nationalist dating back to /new/. That's why it was scrapped. Twice
>>69969533
I didn't know because i've never really gone there
I've heard about it being ooga booga weebland so I've avoided it till now
>>69969652
Never really liked 8ch, dunno why
Doesn't really appeal to me I guess
>>69969221
/n/ was a smart place
>>69969781
/jp/ is the last trace of 2005 4chan and even that is almost dead now
>8ch
good for catching up on news, community is bad. Everyone is part of a giant hivemind.
>>69969652
I left to 8pol in the second exodus, around August 2014 I think and was on there for basically a year, I stopped going after the UK election though and too many problems with 8ch in general started accumulating. Best part about old /pol/ used to be arguing for the sake of it and playing both sides of a discussion but on 8pol if you're not a white nationalist everybody gets super fucking butthurt and sometimes you even get banned too. there's a lot of high quality posters still on there, and I check it sometimes but not enough to make it worth going back which is sad given how much potential it had. I think they've both developed into really nice niches. I wanted a discussion on the imperial history of 19C America the other day and wrote a long OP about it and on here it 404ed instantly within 30 seconds and on 8ch it lasted for 8 hours with all kinds of really well thought out commentary. More often than not though, I kind of just enjoy shitposting and memeing about happenings which is way more appropriate on here though given the post frequency. I do miss how we've lost a lot of the academic quality to /pol/.
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>>69968996
Next your going to tell me that old /b/ was ironically racist.
>>69963826
whats all this about a space elevator?
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>>69968647
pls stop i haven't had any es yet and i can't handle spurdo without it
