Regalingualius posted:

All I know about LF was that Lowtax got visited by the Secret Service, then used that as an impetus to shut LF down. What was some of the poo poo "the 4" got up to, aside from that whole "threatening the president" bit?

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

That's really pretty much it. They, in an incredibly obviously sarcastic manner, "threatened" to kill Obama and that got the Secret Service to visit Lowtax.

zakharov posted:

One dude literally said "I can see where Marine One takes off from my office, what's the range on an RPG?"

The Secret Service usually doesn't see the humor in that.

Admiral Joeslop posted:

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I guess never meet your hero has never been as relevant as it has been now.

I've had my favorite let's players retweet and favorite tweets fom Alex Lifschitz, Matt Binder, Sarkeesian, Jonathan Macintosh etc. they've several times pronounced their hate of gamergate. They spew misinformation and lies all the time and it makes me so sad.

Can anyone explain what happened since long before this whole ordeal they never mentioned the whole SJW rhetoric now they've gone "full macintosh"

Never meet your heroes kids.

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Your default narrative setting is not apolitical
The personal is political
There is no neutral on a moving train
If you're not fighting the status quo, you're defending it
You're either with us or against us
Only Siths deal in absolutes

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SJW ideology fills a religion-shaped hole, in a world where religion (with thanks to scientific advancement and education) is less and less relevant. It has the same "chosen one" feeling as religion (you are one of the select few who truly 'sees' the world as it is (false consciousness etc)) but it also massages the ego, in that it's wrapped up in a thin veneer of intellectualism. It's not intellectual in any way, of course, but since academia as a whole is considered to be an intellectual arena, and humanities departments are the breeding-ground of SJW ideology - if you are particularly vulnerable to the cognitive bias that is the Dunning-Kruger effect (as many of these people seem to be) then SJW ideology can make you feel very important and intelligent indeed.

TL:DR - SJW ideology is, to people bereft of any capacity for self-reflection, an easy, intellectually untaxing way to feel wholesome, intelligent and part of a special 'all-seeing' group.

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Saw this on 8chan (I think) a while ago and saved it copying here:

LF.

More specifically Lowtax and FYAD hated LF because it was more popular than FYAD. FYAD has this weird thing where they talk about how much they don't care about the internet but their whole lives revolve around FYAD; FYAD is Lowtax's favorite forum.

LF was pretty self-contained that started as an ironic Ron Paul forum and eventually became leftist. There were actually lots of posters who were both smart and able to be funny and post about social causes without being thought policing SJW faggots; you know reasonable people. The problem is that you had posters who came in from offsite and these were people who were depressed and angry at where they were in life and a great many of them had miscellaneous mental issues. They used leftism and social justice as excuses to scream, shout and harass at the world they thought was responsible for their situations; the prime example of that was a poster named maggotmaster who once threatened to assassinate the Obama which got Lowtax in trouble with the Secret Service. Goons like to say that's what caused LF to be closed but that's not it at all; in reality it was closed for making fun of Groverhaus, a house belong to a mod named Grover where he built dangerous, incompetent additions to it. They were posting publicly available pictures but mod sass (as making fun of mods is called there) is against the rules so they said LF was stalking Grover and closed the forum thinking they'd finally gotten rid of the LF problem.

The thing is, LF was the second most popular forum on SA after Games. When they closed it, a lot of people migrated either to offsite spinoffs or places like Tumblr and Twitter. This includes the mentally ill Sadbrained Leftists. These people started engaging in echo chambers on the offsite forums which were always destroyed by drama and in-fighting (mentally ill echo chambers aren't stable, who knew) and on social media they were free to spread their message to impressionable middle school/high school/college students. As tumblr became an SJW hell hole, the LP forum on SA started getting popular because of the Dangan Ronpa LPs/live translations which were HUGE on tumblr. Many tumblrites registered just to read and post in those threads and LP bringing with them their SJW ideologies.

In general as the site grew older, especially after Helldump closed, things started being phased out. Ironic racism/homophobia and poo poo was already kind of not cool. SJWs that came from Tumblr exacerbated it. For the last two or three years SA has been a constant fight between SJW posters, FYADs/something sensitive posters and posters who hate both and just want to post funny poo poo without fear of being banned or doxxed for pissing off one side or the other. The problem is, like on other sites where they're numerous, the SJWs while the minority are the loudest and have no lives leaving them free to post everywhere and seem more numerous than they are.

The other turning point was the Redditbomb. If you don't remember, this was a few years back when a goon organized a massive effort to expose all the jailbait subreddits on Reddit. This resulted in all of them being deleted and the eventual removal of mod/user violentacrez. Whatever you think about it (I was actually anti-jailbait and poo poo but never posted in the threads or spread the Redditbomb around but whatever) this was a negative thing as it led to the creation of SRS (of which infamous twitter user a_girl_irl is/was one of the head mods of) which has also helped to spread SJW values across the greater internet.

Small aside, I used to post on a couple of the spinoffs because I was a big time LF reader. I watched at least three get destroyed by one specific user who would constantly talk about how hard she had it as a mixed race girl in New York and a woman in the television industry. She would constantly take offense at everything and start massive drama bombs over otherwise innocuous comments which would spiral out of control and result in the admins getting fed up and closing the forum and people having to migrate to a new one. Eventually people got tired of this and she was banned. It later came out that she is literally an heiress to a fortune worth billions but the person who revealed this wouldn't say anything more than that (i.e. who she really was, etc.).

chitoryu12 posted:

Edit: Still not over "Robocop Ideology".

chitoryu12 posted:

Doing a Google search on LF caused me to stumble upon this old Reddit thread.





Edit: Still not over "Robocop Ideology".

trapped mouse posted:

I remember working with a guy who kept bringing up all this obscure internet stuff. I eventually asked him if he visited Something Awful, and he responded to the tune of "No, I hear they're all a bunch of social justice warriors."

I guess we have a reputation these days.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

WTF is Robocop Ideology?

chitoryu12 posted:

Where does it even come from?

chitoryu12 posted:

Where does it even come from?

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Jesse Carpenter

chitoryu12 posted:

Where does it even come from?

Postal Parcel posted:

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You know it's libtards doing this thinking that they are improving nature with they little artsy stacked stones (after all it started in Western States) and it's liberal getting pissed thinking it's destroying nature as if the stones would not be moved by the river or heavy rains.
So it's great to see liberals getting pissed at liberals ... how do I know it's not conseveritives because they'd be there to hunt and fish not stack freaking rocks.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

"yer" is making me crazy.

That70sHeidi posted:

Edit: The comments have gotten worse since I first saw it posted

Henchman of Santa posted:

Robocop is the word filter for s j w.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

"yer" is making me crazy.

fullroundaction posted:

Wait what's wrong with my RANCID patch?

Admiral Joeslop posted:

zakharov posted:

One dude literally said "I can see where Marine One takes off from my office, what's the range on an RPG?"

The Secret Service usually doesn't see the humor in that.

That70sHeidi posted:

Someone posted this story about how stacking rocks near streams can cause a negative impact on the ecosystem. It was a nice little story, something to you know, consider, no big deal to 99.99999% of people in 99.999999% of their lives.

But the comments are just.... like someone beat up their mama. The vitriol! The name calling! Over some goddamn rocks!?

http://www.centredaily.com/sports/outdoors/article86051077.html

Edit: The comments have gotten worse since I first saw it posted

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

It's like some really weird version of the Last Supper: Judas is down in front, wearing the olive-colored tie, and Peter is on the right with his hair slicked up into a unicorn horn.

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Picnic Princess posted:

It's hilarious how ridiculously offended so many people get when you ask them to just leave something alone. Some people really hate the entire concept of Leave No Trace because it takes away from their FREEDOMS.

Chomp8645 posted:

lol I love how completely this narrative falls apart if you actually go to it on Snopes. The guy shot himself.

Data Graham posted:

It's like cracking jokes about bombs at the airport metal detector. Sure everyone there can obviously tell you're joking, or at least not a real threat. But they can't afford to allow even the impression that an "it's a prank, bro" defense will hold water. It's more about setting examples and creating deterrence for when a real threat arises.