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garudabluffs · 8 years ago

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1.] An Italian newspaper reporting on Donald Trump retweeting himself depicted as Pepe the Frog in September of 2016. 2.] 4chan’s first day out. The Scientology protests of 2008 off Broadway. 3.] Yiannopoulos is depicted as the last on the right in an Instagram image posted by Donald Trump in September of 2016.

4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump “These days, 4chan appears in the news almost weekly. This past week, there were riots at Berkeley in the wake of the scheduled lecture by their most prominent supporter, Milo Yiannopoulos.” <> “How did we get here? What is 4chan exactly? And how did a website about anime become the avant garde of the far right? Mixed up with fascist movements, international intrigue, and Trump iconography? How do we interpret it all?” 4chan invented the meme as we use it today. “In fact, it codified its value system in a series of “rules”. Like everything it did, these were constructed piecemeal from pop culture. Rule #1 was taken from Fight Club’s Rule # 1, “Don’t talk about 4chan”. All the rules had a Lord of the Flies vibe to them, that is to say, they were very obviously created by a bullying and anarchic society of adolescent boys — or at least, men with the mindset of boys — “ No matter what a user did or said, he could always say it was “for the lulz” (lols). “ “... “raids”. The board would flood particular chat rooms or online networks [bulletin boards]...”

Trump’s younger supporters know he’s an incompetent joke; in fact, that’s why they support him. “"4chan value system, like Trump’s ideology, is obsessed with masculine competition (and the subsequent humiliation when the competition is lost). Note the terms 4chan invented, now so popular among grade schoolers everywhere: “fail” and “win”, “alpha” males and “beta cucks”. This system is defined by its childlike innocence, that is to say, the inventor’s inexperience with any sort of “IRL” romantic interaction. And like Trump, since these men wear their insecurities on their sleeve, they fling these insults in wild rabid bursts at everyone else. Trump the loser, the outsider, the hot mess, the pathetic joke, embodies this duality. " Dale Beran Medium Feb 2017 30min

READ MORE + Responses https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb#.xrxy76xmz

An image saved off 4chan in February of 2011 by me, the lurking author. “By the end of 2011, 4chan had finally been outed. Subsequently, the group splintered in a sense; anyone could and did pick up the banner of Anonymous.”

5. Trump: the Loser who Won “IRL”, in real life

Trump, of course, has made his fortune in a similar manner, with casinos, correspondence courses, and pageants, swindling money out of aspiring-millionaire blue collar workers, selling them not a bill of goods, but the hope of a bill of goods, the glitz and glamour of success, to people who don’t win, or in Trump’s parlance, “don’t win anymore.” It is a culture of hopelessness, of knowing “the system is rigged”.

Feels Good Man Part of a series on Pepe the Frog

“Trump, in other words, is a way of owning and celebrating being taken advantage of."

In Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, she notes that the inevitable result of a society built around the endless accumulation of middle class wealth is a man “degraded into a cog in the power-accumulating machine, free to console himself with sublime thoughts about the ultimate destiny of the machine, which itself is constructed in such a way that it can devour the globe simply by following its own inherent law.”

“As both Sanders and the philosopher Slavoj Zizek noted after Sanders lost the primaries, left and right are in some sense outdated ideas. The new division in politics is those who favor the current global hegemony and those who are against it.”

RESPONSES “you overly characterize the average anon as angry, this is false, they are mostly irreverent towards nearly all politics and social issues, either not caring or just wanting the funnier option to happen. Just as they tell people spouting liberal rhetoric to go back to tumblr they will also tell people spouting conservative rhetoric to go back to /pol/.Another huge myth that you’re pushing in this article is that 4chan is in any way organised, this couldn’t be further from the truth, think of it more like a seedy pub than a campaign HQ. It serves all types, whether they be liberals, conservatives or anarchists.”

“This article is like reading a treatise on Punk Rock written in the 1970’s by an old man who likes Folk Music. Liberal old people don’t get the internet. Stop bloody trying to because it’s obvious you all never will”

“ Your attempts to compare Anonymous to 4chan are absolutely ridiculous.”

“Did you know that A Clockwork Orange has 21 chapters? The first American edition left out Chapter 21. The reason was that in Chapter 21, Alex meets one of his old gang members, who has gotten married and a stable job. Of course at first he thinks this guy has become a total loser. Then he realises how empty his lifestyle of beating up and robbing people for fun (or in current slang “for the lulz”) actually is, and that he’s finally ready to leave it behind of his own accord (as he had gone back to a life of crime after the government’s rehabilitation-by-brainwashing wore off). The American publisher cut it because he couldn’t believe that the Alex character could grow up. Decades later, they finally published a complete US edition that included Chapter 21.”

“If you haven’t seen it before, please google the term “behavioral sink”.

Humans may not be a rodent species, but we are opportunistic, omnivorous scavengers with a pack structure. The parallels from that (unapologetically barbaric) experiment to many things modern, specifically what your article describes, are interesting.

See also Frank Herbert’s “The Dosadi Experiment” (1977).”

“Yea see 4chan is a website with internet subculture, and a different boards for different topics. Those boards have their own sub-subsulture, if you will. You’re really only talking about the subculture of /pol/ — the board for politics. And even then, there’s no uniform far right position, the far right is attacked on /pol/ all the same.Generalizing a whole website by the presence of some crappy users would be like calling youtube the avant garde of the cyber bullies.“

“wow you wrote a book. sorry man its just funny because you cared about this more then anyone on 4chan cares about anything. its all one big inside joke and you took it seriously. and then to make things worse you completely failed to accurately understand what 4chan is. your interpretation feels like what my dad might think from his brief interactions form fox news. frankly the “know your meme” page for 4chan is a better introduction. all 4chan is a platform for crazy people to pursue there interests completely uninhibited by censorship ego or conscience. its one of my favorite sites. finally young people on the whole voted for hillary and old people don't know how to Internet, so what are you even sayinghttp://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/4chanhttp://civicyouth.org/an-estimated-24-million-young-people-vote-in-2016-election/“

China Population clock

21-02-2017 at 23:00:59 1 383 536 543

Current population

708 969 726 Current male population (51.2%)

674 566 818 Current female population (48.8%)

http://www.countrymeters.info/en/China/

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