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Xaris posted:i remember penny-arcade forums having a few proud marx-posting types around 2004 but that was about it. Lmao
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when i first regged it was because someone told me it was a nice leftist forum so i bought an account and saw a thread where everyone loved joe biden so i posted a banme lol
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I regged my first account because some guys were spamming pain4 and goatse on other forums I visited as a preteen and then directed me to check out something awful for even more twisted ironic posting.
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fart simpson posted:incorrect? He thought the 08 election was gonna be Clinton vs. Romney, which Romney would then win in a landslide. He was very smug and self assured about this. Mr. Lobe posted:Pretty sure he was right for the wrong reasons. Like he thought Obama sucked but for reactionary instead of leftist reasons My recollection is that he had correctly identified that Obama was an empty suit and people were projecting their own leftist ideals onto him. He phrased this in the grossest way, I think the line was "Barack Obama is the political version of a date rapist". He was looking forward to a Mitt Romney presidency, and wrote a weird long eulogy ppst for Chris Benoit, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if he was also a reactionary/racist/whatever.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:also lf had a set of ironic anime perverts where it turned out whoops no irony, so on balance i gotta give it to cspam And it made the front page https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/baby-bishie-bolsheviks/1/ 
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I think you could make a convincing argument LF brought JDPON/MTW thought to a much larger audience than anything before
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i first became aware of this website by reading an article in WIRED magazine in 1999 or 2000 about "all your base are belong to us" but i only really started lurking here when i was linked here by Drew Curtis's FARK.com in 2002
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i found SA because the maddox fan forum, a thing that existed, was more or less constantly angry at early SA and also always stealing its jokes. this was like 2001-2002
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my first internet forum was for final fantasy fandom, then in the spinoff post-drama forums a lot of the funny content came from SA and ebaum
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Karl Barks posted:I think you could make a convincing argument LF brought JDPON/MTW thought to a much larger audience than anything before I'd argue the best thing we did was proliferate/normalize Troophate, which was not tolerated anywhere on the forums or in America. Violently so The invasion of Goons in Platoons when it opened in 2008 (elpintogrande joined in) was our best moment (The fact that we still have a gun/milgoon/car forum on here is unacceptable)
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Vox Nihili posted:This checks out. Higher highs, lower lows. Also lots of remarkably lovely white noise spam that would make today's TRELP posters blush. Yeah. Cspam is always readable which is not something you could say about lf. But cspam will never produce anything as good as the truly legendary lf threads My favorite was the thread were people made weird and beautiful art out of some coloring book about natural disasters. And of course the Serbia Vicky lp
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LF seemed very dense and intimidating to me, a curious liberal. There was a ton of stuff that seemed absolutely insane, but everyone was so convinced about it. Baby Huey newton, baby Finland, and FSAD stand out as especially “wtf” That was a big difference, everyone in LF was enthusiastic and ambitious and confident in the future. Now .. not as much lol
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Shiroc posted:C-SPAM has a real tension between the actual leftists, misanthropic nihilists pretending that's leftist praxis and reactionaries who just really hate da libs This post is why LF was better—-the actual leftists bullied the rest out. I was bullied out of being an idiot child like many others.
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Sunny Side Up posted:This post is why LF was better—-the actual leftists bullied the rest out. I was bullied out of being an idiot child like many others. imo this was largely because lf wasn’t explicitly a leftist forum so ppl would actually interrogate and attack each other’s positions, it just so happened that the leftist posters were the best at owning people. In cspam you can pretty much say whatever you want as long is you couch it in the correct vaguely leftist shibboleths. I read a lot of posts and get confused what they have to do with leftist politics other than appending some generic “fuckin capitalism folks, am I right?” to the end.
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TheSlutPit posted:imo this was largely because lf wasn’t explicitly a leftist forum so ppl would actually interrogate and attack each other’s positions, it just so happened that the leftist posters were the best at owning people. In cspam you can pretty much say whatever you want as long is you couch it in the correct vaguely leftist shibboleths. I read a lot of posts and get confused what they have to do with leftist politics other than appending some generic “fuckin capitalism folks, am I right?” to the end. s/redpilled/theory s/based/praxis
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cspam made great content it was just gated behind the trump thread. Nothing in cspam really feels close to the trump thread at the peak of its churn, once the engine mix got thrown out of whack by the lowtax megadrama it was 
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TheSlutPit posted:imo this was largely because lf wasn’t explicitly a leftist forum so ppl would actually interrogate and attack each other’s positions, it just so happened that the leftist posters were the best at owning people. In cspam you can pretty much say whatever you want as long is you couch it in the correct vaguely leftist shibboleths. I read a lot of posts and get confused what they have to do with leftist politics other than appending some generic “fuckin capitalism folks, am I right?” to the end. The trump thread is legitimately some of the worst poo poo posted in CSPAM.
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We also have a 1/6 thread where people are unironically discussing the event????
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the trump thread had to interact with the rest of the forum once and was destroyed in body and soul. 
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it went from creating content to creating chipmunk porn moderators. there’s a lesson there, somewhere
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I legit don’t remember anything from LF it’s all gone like tears in the brain
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also nothing is more pathetic than goons reveling when the forum was good
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LF was "leftist" because we were allowed to tell every other political poster how worthless they and their beliefs were in a free and emphatic way and not get probated for trolling or some other dumb poo poo, and leftists are by and large correct so it was a victory for the free marketplace of ideas Cspam is "leftist" in the way a dog is leftist if it chews on a copy of capital
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T-Paine posted:LF was "leftist" because we were allowed to tell every other political poster how worthless they and their beliefs were in a free and emphatic way and not get probated for trolling or some other dumb poo poo, and leftists are by and large correct so it was a victory for the free marketplace of ideas Its really not the same without unironic Google Ron Paul types around to dunk on.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Its really not the same without unironic Google Ron Paul types around to dunk on.
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T-Paine posted:Yeah, the dunking was done out of necessity so it was both cool and good. Now it consists of d-tier trash boringly complaining about other threads because one of them talks about sad things Hey, whoa, thats not the whole story! Sometimes the d-tier morons complain about other threads for having the wrong opinions about Glenn Greenwald. Also, tbh, everyone still posting on SA in 2022 is a d-tier moron.
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TheSlutPit posted:imo this was largely because lf wasn’t explicitly a leftist forum so ppl would actually interrogate and attack each other’s positions, it just so happened that the leftist posters were the best at owning people. In cspam you can pretty much say whatever you want as long is you couch it in the correct vaguely leftist shibboleths. I read a lot of posts and get confused what they have to do with leftist politics other than appending some generic “fuckin capitalism folks, am I right?” to the end. last sentence is spot on lol. you basically have to go to the glenn thread if you want actual disagreement instead of weirdly argumentatively phrased consensus
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Rexicon1 posted:also nothing is more pathetic than goons reveling when the forum was good Agreed for the most part but at least in my case I was almost entirely offline between mid 2013 and late 2019 so it’s interesting to me, as there is a pretty stark difference that I think reflects a larger change in online political discourse in general.
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hell yesCefte posted:still check SA pretty much daily, but my desire to post has dropped off like a geriatric's sex drive TenementFunster has issued a correction as of 04:40 on Jul 16, 2022 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:lmfao
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Which thread posts the saddest things?
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NeatHeteroDude posted:Which thread posts the saddest things? Climate change thread I suppose
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Epstein thread because giving yourself sschizophrenia is no joke
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NeatHeteroDude posted:Which thread posts the saddest things?
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Farm Frenzy posted:People made jokes in the past
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See you in 200 pages, anime reference.
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