The Fruit of the Loom logo DID feature a cornucopia at some point in time (or space).
4chan is just a bunch of people pretending to be racist/homophobic/... for the lulz. Only a minority are hardcore trump supporters, neonazis, ...
My issue is even if that's true it kind of doesn't matter because it's making the people who are ACTUALLY racist/homophobic/name your bigotry flavor feel comfortable enough to be genuinely horrendous. Fucking with the Overton window like that ain't cool.
I'm more convinced the majority of crazy posts are by disinformation trolls that plague all social media now.
I simultaneously miss AmITheAsshole and think that it's almost all either made up for karma farming or people shitposting to make some marginalized group look bad.
Or weird sex stuff. Definitely a lot of it is some person's weird sex thing.
disinformation, deflection and plausible denialability
you can be an outright racist on 4chan ... if someone debates you, you can entertain yourself endlessly
if you aren't a racist ... you get to have some fun ... and tell everyone you are fake
if you are an actual racist ... you get to affirm your deluded beliefs ... and tell everyone you are fake
The toilet seat argument with women. I understand that the toilet seat should be let down, but if I forget. There is no way in hell you should fall in. Most of the time I don't just let the seat down, but also the lid. No complaints there. How the hell is that any different? Either way you have to look first.
"All violence is caused by cis white men" politician said that quote and I've seen many people defend the statement. I don't think it's true and my knowledge of history makes me think it's not true but I'm not sure if I'm correct since colonialism did do a lot of damage.
Japan: am I a joke to you!?
It's nowhere close to true even with the most revisionist views of history - what's also funny is the definition of white also isn't some set in stone thing and has changed greatly over time.
Colonialism absolutely fucked things up in large parts of the world (all of it?) but it wasn't just done by anglo/white dominant countries though England and Spain together account for a loooot of it.
This argument was already settled https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif/index.html
Hot take thread? Mumford and Sons from a decade ago was Good Actually. Fuck that one guy who turned out to be a fascist tho