You’re playing with fire, this is how thedonald started. It was all a joke until it wasn’t. Then it became a cesspit.
It’s also how flat earthers started. 4chan started satirically memeing about flat earth. Then idiots saw it, missed the satire, and picked it up as a serious thing. At that point, 4chan went “this is funnier than any satire we could make” and stood back to watch the crazies launch rockets into the upper atmosphere.
Flat earthers have been around (heh) for centuries. It’s mostly a religious thing in order to rebuke science in order to keep people stupid. There’s a passage in the bible that refrences the four corners of the earth that gets refrenced by these people as proof. It’s a way to keep people in their cult, because the outsiders are the ones who are tricked into beleiving in round earth ftom scientists.
I would say that it really became a thing in its current form in the 1800s. Lots of the weird Biblical “literalism” (and I think things like Salafism/Wahhabism) come from the combination of widespread literacy and direct access to the texts + those ideologies that deny that you need anything outside the text to interpret them yourself/solo scriptura.
You can try to calculate the size of the earth yourself the same way Ancient Greeks did.
What we’re seeing now is related to shitposting being taken seriously for sure (the “birds aren’t real” thing has also been making a slow shift from stupid joke to conspiracy therapy, I think that’s how “Helen Keller” don’t real started)
I trace it back a bit further than 4chan though. You start to see it all the way back in the 90s on Usenet, pretty sure that’s around when the Flat Earth Society Forums - which were clearly mostly Poes - started too.
I think that 4chan started a lot of this apocalypse that way.
4chan was sold in 2015 and that’s when it took a hard right turn.
Damn, sounds like a familiar story now
The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1956.
4chan’s downfall was mainstream media telling everyone that Nazis were on the site, so all the Nazis who were watching mainstream media went to 4chan and without moot running it, they were allowed to fester.
Yea, but I’m a mod Who’s Built Different™️
oof ouch my hubris
!conservative@lemmy.world because there is no clickable link here.
This is peak US politics. No wonder y’all seem to be so fucked…
Having said that, best of luck with the community.
And they think they’re the untouchable good guys.
I don’t trust this.
It appears legit anyway. Haven’t seen any posts in that !c from the usual trolls, it’s only funny people now
We’ll see in the longer term… in the meantime I socialized a few memes.
It’s true, you can trust me >:)
I’ve looked through the history and I could only find a post “it’s now unmoderated as well”. How did that happen in the first place?
I think you might be on one of the others, .world is the one going satire lol
For various reasons, .ee version they were removed because they weren’t taking care of things, SJW version was just abandoned and I think .world was also abandoned
aww. I was enjoying /c/conservative being run on anarchy principles.
I added your accomplishment to my list of headhunts.
Removed by mod
That’s not how this works… you just go to a different instance like wtf?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was entirely abandoned, and that was just the latest set of mods. From what I understand, the .world version has been through three sets of mods.
Most serious conservatives around here just want to spread hate and misinformation anyways, should have seen what happened to the .ee version mods, removed by the instance admins because they were doing shit like quickly resolving reports so the admins didn’t see them to allow crap like Nazi celebratory posts to stay up.
Huh… wish I was there. Oh well seems like the fediverse is working, yay
Come on come all its time for cm002 to post the exact same shit that’s already all over Lemmy but now in another place!
Y’all already have the entire goddamn website dedicated to shitting on conservatives 24/7. Making yet another place to do it is just repetitive and unnecessary.
I don’t care for most conservative bullshit either, but at least it was nice seeing the random post that wasn’t exactly the same as every other goddamn sub on this site.
You’ll just have to get your two minutes hate somewhere else, it’s not a big deal.
Oh looks it’s Mr I can’t identify a conservative if my life depended on it pancake man.
You still bouncing around and being wrong about people today?
Lol. Holly shit, talk about bouncing around being wrong about people. “Mr. Pancake man” is most definitely a woman. Like … nevermind.
Yeah unlike you weirdos I don’t stalk every single profile I talk to so I can go into every conversation knowing dirt about them.
Edit: typo
Ain’t no dirt involved here. That’s a weird take, tbh. And telling. Naw, it’s just really really funny that you did the thing you accused others of so blatantly and immediately. That’s all.
Yeah except I never claimed to know anything about them aside from a user name. they claimed incorrect things about me in another thread awhile back then dipped from the thread.
It was a 50/50 on the gender and statically my odds were better assuming it was a guy. Oh well.
Seems like they made the better bet given the odds, but oh well indeed. Still pretty funny.
