Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:46:36 AM No.12402022
What would you do if your sense of empathy was atrophied by 4chan?
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Thread 12402022 - /s4s/ [Archived: 398 hours ago]
who
7/14/2025, 12:49:10 AM No.12402030
well it hasn't happened to me yet so I don't really care
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:49:25 AM No.12402031
i wouldnt consider it to be a problem and would pity wagies
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:49:58 AM No.12402032
I freaking love rape and murder and hitler
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:50:34 AM No.12402034
>>12402022 (OP)
Id still be checkn dubs because lel two same number it cant be helped
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Id still be checkn dubs because lel two same number it cant be helped
Your fortune: You will meet a dark handsome stranger
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:52:36 AM No.12402038
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:57:52 AM No.12402043
>>12402038
well its too late to do anything about it now
you should have intervened when they were neglecting me
well its too late to do anything about it now
you should have intervened when they were neglecting me
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:00:01 AM No.12402047
>>12402043
u cant blame me my empathy got atrophied by 4chan
u cant blame me my empathy got atrophied by 4chan
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:14:15 AM No.12402063
I love my friends and rainbows and puppy dogs!!!
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:30:40 AM No.12402117
>>12402063
:DD
:DD
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:32:05 AM No.12402124
>>12402022 (OP)
My sense of empathy has only increased since I came back to 4chan 8 years ago.
My sense of empathy has only increased since I came back to 4chan 8 years ago.
King's
7/14/2025, 1:34:11 AM No.12402129
>>12402022 (OP)
It simply can't do it, if anything this normally hidden greater picture provided by 4chan has made me more connected than ever to my empathy. Nice dubs btw.
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It simply can't do it, if anything this normally hidden greater picture provided by 4chan has made me more connected than ever to my empathy. Nice dubs btw.
Your fortune: Average Luck
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 11:06:42 AM No.12402918
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 11:51:00 AM No.12402956
>>12402022 (OP)
No, I would say you'd have to be a bit of a "psycho" to stay here and not be repulsed by so much mental illness in any given era of 4chan. You just having that more formalized as an ideology is probably just age in general. You tend to just naturally accumulate things that support your existing biases until it seems like a philosophy. I think being here has made me less judgmental of the right wing kind of beliefs but I can't say I've ever been much of a humanitarian just anti authoritarian. When humanitarian efforts line up with that I'm probably on their side like pre2008 but when they don't I'm not
No, I would say you'd have to be a bit of a "psycho" to stay here and not be repulsed by so much mental illness in any given era of 4chan. You just having that more formalized as an ideology is probably just age in general. You tend to just naturally accumulate things that support your existing biases until it seems like a philosophy. I think being here has made me less judgmental of the right wing kind of beliefs but I can't say I've ever been much of a humanitarian just anti authoritarian. When humanitarian efforts line up with that I'm probably on their side like pre2008 but when they don't I'm not
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:28:33 PM No.12402985
>>12402956
this website did the opposite to me. it fully radicalized me against right-wingers. I first started posting in 2009 and was a center-left quasi-libertarian free speech warrior with thousands of posts on other sites like lesswrong defending the philosophical virtues of free speech. first gamergate happened, which I fell into but dehypnotized myself out of weeks later. then ever-worsening conspiracism, trumpism, and national socialism made me realize free speech was a complete joke starting around 2018
I did a total 180 and became a major anti-free speech advocate and champion of explicit censorship. my political views remain center-left but I went from seeing rightists as human, mistaken interlocutors to non-human cancers on modern civilization and human flourishing. I used to watch joe rogan daily and now can't tolerate a moment of his intellectual poverty no matter the guest
twitter was 100% in the right to censor covid/vaccine mis/disinfo. rightists were correctly placed into alt-tech ghettos. the only problem with censors is they're too afraid to be based and proudly champion the merit of censorship, curation, and culling of diseased elements from one's culture. if you believe the MMR vaccine causes autism you have no right to be at the grown-ups' table and should have your psychotic breakdowns confined to a dilapidated twitter clone run by a linen mogul
then again I also became completely radicalized against leftists because most of them are stupid populist conspiracist freaks too. but then I also hate elitists like yarvin and thiel. only guy I kind of like is ezra klein pretty much, who balances elitism and populism and promulgates structuralism over conspiracism
really my whole philosophy can be summed up as despising conspiracy theorists. I believe conspiracism will likely hasten or cause the early death of the united states. I consider belief in even a single conspiracy theory a justification to make one a pariah
this website did the opposite to me. it fully radicalized me against right-wingers. I first started posting in 2009 and was a center-left quasi-libertarian free speech warrior with thousands of posts on other sites like lesswrong defending the philosophical virtues of free speech. first gamergate happened, which I fell into but dehypnotized myself out of weeks later. then ever-worsening conspiracism, trumpism, and national socialism made me realize free speech was a complete joke starting around 2018
I did a total 180 and became a major anti-free speech advocate and champion of explicit censorship. my political views remain center-left but I went from seeing rightists as human, mistaken interlocutors to non-human cancers on modern civilization and human flourishing. I used to watch joe rogan daily and now can't tolerate a moment of his intellectual poverty no matter the guest
twitter was 100% in the right to censor covid/vaccine mis/disinfo. rightists were correctly placed into alt-tech ghettos. the only problem with censors is they're too afraid to be based and proudly champion the merit of censorship, curation, and culling of diseased elements from one's culture. if you believe the MMR vaccine causes autism you have no right to be at the grown-ups' table and should have your psychotic breakdowns confined to a dilapidated twitter clone run by a linen mogul
then again I also became completely radicalized against leftists because most of them are stupid populist conspiracist freaks too. but then I also hate elitists like yarvin and thiel. only guy I kind of like is ezra klein pretty much, who balances elitism and populism and promulgates structuralism over conspiracism
really my whole philosophy can be summed up as despising conspiracy theorists. I believe conspiracism will likely hasten or cause the early death of the united states. I consider belief in even a single conspiracy theory a justification to make one a pariah
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:35:52 PM No.12402989
>>12402985
I believe not a single conspiracy theory is true or even plausible, with maybe 2 or 3 that are like "fine I won't hate you for holding a p < .6 belief in this one"
I believe basically the only relevant alignment chart is conspiracists vs. establishmentists, with a separate axis for psychopaths vs. empaths (for example, there is a minuscule handful of far-rightists who aren't conspiracists and are somewhat intelligent and just arrived at their position through psychopathy)
MAGA is conspiracist psychopathic. campism is conspiracist empathic. cato institute and bryan caplan are establishmentist psychopathic. ezra klein is establishmentist empathic
I believe not a single conspiracy theory is true or even plausible, with maybe 2 or 3 that are like "fine I won't hate you for holding a p < .6 belief in this one"
I believe basically the only relevant alignment chart is conspiracists vs. establishmentists, with a separate axis for psychopaths vs. empaths (for example, there is a minuscule handful of far-rightists who aren't conspiracists and are somewhat intelligent and just arrived at their position through psychopathy)
MAGA is conspiracist psychopathic. campism is conspiracist empathic. cato institute and bryan caplan are establishmentist psychopathic. ezra klein is establishmentist empathic
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:45:20 PM No.12402993
>>12402989
wait holy shit I did not even know ezra klein was also the creator of JournoList and literally did what I recommended above by pure coincidence. I've been a fan of him for years but only saw this just now. JournoList was also one of the main things that incited Gamergate. it's really all connected
how can one man be so consistently based
>In February 2007, Klein created a Google Groups forum called "JournoList" for discussing politics and the news media. The forum's membership was controlled by Klein and limited to "several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics."
>Klein had justified excluding conservative Republicans from participation as "not about fostering ideology but preventing a collapse into flame war. The emphasis is on empiricism, not ideology."
wait holy shit I did not even know ezra klein was also the creator of JournoList and literally did what I recommended above by pure coincidence. I've been a fan of him for years but only saw this just now. JournoList was also one of the main things that incited Gamergate. it's really all connected
how can one man be so consistently based
>In February 2007, Klein created a Google Groups forum called "JournoList" for discussing politics and the news media. The forum's membership was controlled by Klein and limited to "several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics."
>Klein had justified excluding conservative Republicans from participation as "not about fostering ideology but preventing a collapse into flame war. The emphasis is on empiricism, not ideology."
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:48:38 PM No.12402996
Cant tell if unfunny psyop pasta written by /pol/cel right winger or genuine retard
Your fortune: Bad Luck
Your fortune: Bad Luck
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:50:31 PM No.12402998
>>12402996
I'd assume he's being genuine but has lost perspective for reasons related to views.
I'd assume he's being genuine but has lost perspective for reasons related to views.
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:56:08 PM No.12403004
>>12402998
I dont want to get political but the anti-conspiracy theory stuff is taking things further than 99% of people that use conspiracy theorist as a derogatory would (im pretty sure) it has to be bait
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I dont want to get political but the anti-conspiracy theory stuff is taking things further than 99% of people that use conspiracy theorist as a derogatory would (im pretty sure) it has to be bait
Your fortune: Godly Luck
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:00:17 PM No.12403005
>>12403004
People just love falling into the trap of 'righteous anger' and the little witch hunts it fosters.
People just love falling into the trap of 'righteous anger' and the little witch hunts it fosters.
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:04:24 PM No.12403007
Lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame lame
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:05:25 PM No.12403008
>>12403004
nope I am 100% sincere. conspiracists delenda est. I assume most people in my twitter bubble would pretty much agree with me
nope I am 100% sincere. conspiracists delenda est. I assume most people in my twitter bubble would pretty much agree with me
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:15:22 PM No.12403028
>>12403008
in your twitter bubble lolelole totally not b8ing go back there regardless :3
Your fortune: Very Bad Luck
in your twitter bubble lolelole totally not b8ing go back there regardless :3
Your fortune: Very Bad Luck
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:22:07 PM No.12403049
>>12402996
in some years you will realize I was right all along
I just use 4chan because anonymity is the superior paradigm. it's unfortunate that it selects for conspiracists and other sorts of fringe belief-holders. though conspiracism is so mainstream now that there's no need for this place as a refuge anymore
I've been on this beat for many years (I used to sell "Epstein killed himself" t-shirts but people probably thought they were ironic) but youtuber contrapoints did an excellent video on conspiracism recently as well
https://youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI
she's good at the "there are a billion obvious entry-level takes on this topic but here's the synthesis and psychoanalysis" genre
honestly I would guess she probably agrees with most everything I wrote in this thread (at the least, she's liked several of my tweets where I've described the best ways to psyop conspiracists by turning their faulty reasoning towards conspiracism itself and using strategic gaslighting, and I don't think she's a courtesy-liker)
I am not trolling here. we are in a civilizational battle between conspiracists and the rest. national socialists and marxist-leninists are the evil's most salient face but the rot is far deeper
>>12403005
>People just love falling into the trap of 'righteous anger' and the little witch hunts it fosters.
admittedly that's precisely what happened to me with gamergate initially. that's why my opposition is a type of reasoning, not a group or a person. it's a witch in the brain and one that's not wrong to immolate and wrong not to immolate
>>12403028
twitter sucks but it's the only game in town. no substitutes
in some years you will realize I was right all along
I just use 4chan because anonymity is the superior paradigm. it's unfortunate that it selects for conspiracists and other sorts of fringe belief-holders. though conspiracism is so mainstream now that there's no need for this place as a refuge anymore
I've been on this beat for many years (I used to sell "Epstein killed himself" t-shirts but people probably thought they were ironic) but youtuber contrapoints did an excellent video on conspiracism recently as well
https://youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI
she's good at the "there are a billion obvious entry-level takes on this topic but here's the synthesis and psychoanalysis" genre
honestly I would guess she probably agrees with most everything I wrote in this thread (at the least, she's liked several of my tweets where I've described the best ways to psyop conspiracists by turning their faulty reasoning towards conspiracism itself and using strategic gaslighting, and I don't think she's a courtesy-liker)
I am not trolling here. we are in a civilizational battle between conspiracists and the rest. national socialists and marxist-leninists are the evil's most salient face but the rot is far deeper
>>12403005
>People just love falling into the trap of 'righteous anger' and the little witch hunts it fosters.
admittedly that's precisely what happened to me with gamergate initially. that's why my opposition is a type of reasoning, not a group or a person. it's a witch in the brain and one that's not wrong to immolate and wrong not to immolate
>>12403028
twitter sucks but it's the only game in town. no substitutes
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:24:28 PM No.12403056
>>12402022 (OP)
dubs! You are lucky, my sense empathy was destroyed by horrific real-world interactions and experiences
dubs! You are lucky, my sense empathy was destroyed by horrific real-world interactions and experiences
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:32:46 PM No.12403087
>>12403049
dude come on do a little better than that xD i doubt the contrapoints person would agree with this even it would be crazy work to be so left leaning and reasonably learned but still missing mainstream consensus that conspiracies happen and people have correctly theorised them before exposure especially given the amount of stuff around say the reagan administration
Your fortune: Better not tell you now
dude come on do a little better than that xD i doubt the contrapoints person would agree with this even it would be crazy work to be so left leaning and reasonably learned but still missing mainstream consensus that conspiracies happen and people have correctly theorised them before exposure especially given the amount of stuff around say the reagan administration
Your fortune: Better not tell you now
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:41:35 PM No.12403111
>>12403087
i define a conspiracy theory as anything that grows in prominence as a hypothesis/accusation despite persistent and consistent mainstream media dismissal or ignoring one year after the origin
anything that first (or not long after) breaks in a major paper is a conspiracy, not a conspiracy theory
iran-contra was a media-first exposure
"CIA helped distribute crack in black communities" was an offshoot of that which was and is a conspiracy theory, not a conspiracy
DNC and podesta email breach and leak by russian intelligence was a conspiracy. pizzagate (paranoid schizophrenic interpretations of podesta's emails) was a conspiracy theory
what reagan administration incident do you believe can be classified as a later-proven conspiracy theory?
i define a conspiracy theory as anything that grows in prominence as a hypothesis/accusation despite persistent and consistent mainstream media dismissal or ignoring one year after the origin
anything that first (or not long after) breaks in a major paper is a conspiracy, not a conspiracy theory
iran-contra was a media-first exposure
"CIA helped distribute crack in black communities" was an offshoot of that which was and is a conspiracy theory, not a conspiracy
DNC and podesta email breach and leak by russian intelligence was a conspiracy. pizzagate (paranoid schizophrenic interpretations of podesta's emails) was a conspiracy theory
what reagan administration incident do you believe can be classified as a later-proven conspiracy theory?
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:43:50 PM No.12403115
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:46:21 PM No.12403123
>>12403115
>covid/vaccine mis/disinfo
>retard detected
you are not intelligent enough to be worthy of responding to. please go away and suck RFK Jr.'s cock out of our sight
>>12403118
don't know what that is
>covid/vaccine mis/disinfo
>retard detected
you are not intelligent enough to be worthy of responding to. please go away and suck RFK Jr.'s cock out of our sight
>>12403118
don't know what that is
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:50:01 PM No.12403130
>>12403123
Triples?
Fren welcome to s4s! We check triples here along with all repeating post numbers. See your post? If the numbers on the top right end in repeating digits we admire them. It is a fun communal activity that anyone can participate in.
Enjoy your stay
Your fortune: Bad Luck
Triples?
Fren welcome to s4s! We check triples here along with all repeating post numbers. See your post? If the numbers on the top right end in repeating digits we admire them. It is a fun communal activity that anyone can participate in.
Enjoy your stay
Your fortune: Bad Luck
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:51:40 PM No.12403136
>>12403130
the capitalization threw me off
the capitalization threw me off
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:56:46 PM No.12403145
>>12403111
>>12403115
>>12403123
Its funny because the US government pushed anti-vax conspiracies overseas lole and the mainstream media including the new york times have pushed anti-vax stuff often coming down to shoddy representation of research
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>>12403115
>>12403123
Its funny because the US government pushed anti-vax conspiracies overseas lole and the mainstream media including the new york times have pushed anti-vax stuff often coming down to shoddy representation of research
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:23:31 PM No.12403185
>>12403145
>Its funny because the US government pushed anti-vax conspiracies overseas lole
source?
>and the mainstream media including the new york times have pushed anti-vax stuff often coming down to shoddy representation of research
when has the NYT done that. link an article from them
one always needs to hold these people's feet to the fire. you said the New York Times has done this. link one NYT article demonstrating the point
>Its funny because the US government pushed anti-vax conspiracies overseas lole
source?
>and the mainstream media including the new york times have pushed anti-vax stuff often coming down to shoddy representation of research
when has the NYT done that. link an article from them
one always needs to hold these people's feet to the fire. you said the New York Times has done this. link one NYT article demonstrating the point
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:25:19 PM No.12403188
this will happen more and more frequently
(refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic from the 80s)
(refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic from the 80s)
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:37:13 PM No.12403207
>>12403185
for starters https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
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for starters https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 5:26:38 PM No.12403459
>>12402985
Evolving "politically" to hold every single retarded belief at once as a philosophy.
Primo bait.
Your fortune: Bad Luck
Evolving "politically" to hold every single retarded belief at once as a philosophy.
Primo bait.
Your fortune: Bad Luck