Remember:
"4chan is where actually intelligent people pretend to be stupid morons, and Reddit is where actually stupid morons pretend to be intelligent."
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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The only people that believe that crap are 4channers dumb enough to believe that being an amoral asshole makes you smart. The reddit thing is true though.
For a while I was living in a student dorm in a student area. I was taking a walk when I saw one of those:
Not that particular piece of paper but one with the same text. Took me 2 minutes of googling to trace it back to /pol/.
I'm an atheist and ex Muslim, Islam ruined a large portion of my life... but I took that paper down anyway. Random person had the right to hang it on the street and I had the right to crumble and recycle it.
The statement itself wasn't the triggering part... The triggering part was 4chaners think they are smart or making some kind of "point" with a quipy and short sentence... hanging out behind a screen trying to affect the real world outside even though they often claim not to be social or get any sun at all. At least that sad 4channer got to take a walk to hang this up. It was confusing more than offensive, had to read it a few times to even get it lololol
Eh, it's illegal to post such things in many areas, so best case, you're helping enforce the law, and worst case, you're cleaning up the neighborhood.
4chan, like much of The Internet, is proof that what is lacking in society now is the ability for anyone to have the shit beaten out of them for saying absolute stupid, mean or destructive things.
People are being assholes online because in the real world they are sorely needing to have their ass handed to them for the stupid shit they say.
This is how the world worked for hundreds of years.
I curse the day the internet invented phrenology, "scientific" racism, and nationalism.
I disagree that violence would improve this in any way, but I agree that those with shitty views don't dare share their face because their views are hateful racist vomit.
It's that no one has an actual discourse in person. That would include shame and maybe some punches to she face. The internet is now the 3rd place and it's built to extract money and be addictive.
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Shut up and let me quote crime statistics at you.
Just the n-word over and over again
-An intellectual on 4-chan
Shit. You just made me realize that since I left reddit I haven't seen a single "despite..." comment. Thinking about how much casual bigotry like that I'm avoiding every day puts a smile on my face.
Maybe a few decades ago. Right now 4chan is an actual cesspool, not a fake one anymore.
When has 4chan been not a cesspool? Its just that once a decade they decide to weaponise their autism and do something massive.
Damn double whammy I feel personally attacked
You could stay away from moron subreddits pretty easily but maybe moron interests and your interests match.
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>Be me
>A third-worlder
>Read about issues in lives of internet stranges
>first_world_problems.exe
> mfw
I don't know what I expected. People stuff themselves in trucks and boats to come to your countries in search of a better life. Have some perspective.
If people don't have problems they invent them.
Feel fortunate everyday I happened to be given the circumstances I was. Could have been born in Russia and be dying in the cold while my death is televised to electronic music.
Perspective, and getting out of your own ass, are quite useful lol.
The sad thing is that most who do make such travel to the first world wont be able to find a better life here at all.
Its a misperception created by the economic propaganda politicians use to make themselves look good, sure in theory there is more wealth around but ask the many starving homeless how much of that end up benefitting them.
Not far from my job is an official place where people can request asylum. Over 50% who have the legal right are refused. The paperwork is so idiotic that the state is spending extra money so they can fine themselves but also refusing to pay those fines. In the mean time people dying in the park across the street is a regular occurrence.
The first world is mentally ill. Its a soulless controlled system designed to minimize time spend with people you trust and care about, maximize time spend creating value for the gdp counter. Trying to help people in public can end up in them acting hostile to you.
We mix up happiness with paying for stuff we don't need, mix up sustainable healthy lives with having enough money saved to hypothetically pay a emergency hospital bill.
Half my friends have seen the inside of a psych ward, a third has made plans to leave to start a new hermit live off the grid. Some have successfully decided to cut their lives short in order to escape.
I assume all first world countries will be a little different, but in most your chances will depend on your socio economic circles like how rich your parents are, wether your grandparents still own a home to pass down to you. But if you come here with nothing but a bag on your back.. often criminals will recruite/exploit and reduce them to a slave, alternatively they starvd/ freeze dead in winter or murder/rape each other out of desperation
Tldr: grass looks greener on the other side, its not, It just has different weeds.
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Whether or not the perspective given here is valid, it's inarguably really low-empathy
yeah this dude is kinda exemplifying 4chan
"You don't have it any better. You don't have it any worse. We are each our own irreplaceable, human soul with our own understanding of what it means to suffer. And that's a huuuuuuuuuuge bummerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
Not everyday you see some AJJs lyrics.
What's "strooglers"?
What would normal people be but normal?
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