This is supposed to be a sort of museumpost, like it can be nice to look back.
China used to be a controversial topic. There were always people who held the Correct Opinion, but it wasn't something that had a general consensus on the site.
Jack's thread
Hexbears malding over pronouns? More likely than you think!
Quillquote, my beloved, making an effortpost about intelligence based insults
Not wanting to date trans women is transphobic
Somebody complaining about tankes getting 90 upbears? Sure!
Hexbears talking bout Uyghurs and trusting the CIA
The vet sesh
Vaushposting
TC69 asks you to read a book
Contraposting
Main rage
Back in my days we used to post ppb links and emojis to wreckers and the Silver Legion because we didn't have this new fangled images in comments tech. (we did but for only like the first week or so)
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We'd hide a picture of John Kerry in the pigs ass crack, as was the fashion at the time
Man, this unlocked a Proustian memory of Kerryposting
I got here about a year after the site was created and as a result I missed all the silver legion stuff and for the longest time I thought the silver legion stuff was a reference to the Silver Legion of America, aka the Silver Shirts, an American esoteric fascist organization that was active in the lead up to ww2.
I think that was the intent, but
is way funnier.
Oh, yeah I could see the original troll self-aggrandizing in that way (although the original silver shirts are in fact, extremely embarrassing) and then getting turned into a Nate Silver joke.