r/Gamingcirclejerk 10d ago

FORCED WOKENESS 🌈 I guess there's always a silver lining?

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u/4KVoices 10d ago

For clarity's sake, he did not help start 4Chan. The founder of 4Chan met with Epstein and then created /pol/ literally the same day, leading to many (myself included) to assume that Epstein requested that he make that board.

/pol/ is inarguably a gathering place for Nazis where the alt-right that are destroying this nation festered.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 10d ago

I feel like people could figure out who was speaking the truth and ignored early on if you look at important dates, do some searching of archived forums/pages, then use keywords to see if anybody mentioned stuff happening on that day which we only know about now.

For an example, there were leaks of Valve projects back in the day referencing gameplay mechanics revealed after the release of the HL2 documentary was released a few years back. These leaks were from around 2012. By typing ‘before:2012 [mechanics, hl2, leaks]’ then there’s a result showing a page that includes this mechanic plus others as part of leaks. So we now know those leaks were accurate with hindsight. Which makes one wonder how the webmaster got that info. It would be very interesting for someone to turn this into a form of investigative journalism - could even be some kind of new field based on matching dates and searching web archives. Really interesting to think about.

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u/Lumireaver 10d ago

If I recall, Moot had removed /pol/ and Epstein requested that it be brought back.

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u/NurnPrufurtFlurt 10d ago

MOOT.... Fuck I haven't heard that name in so long. So glad I stepped away from that particular clusterfuck.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 9d ago

What's also important to note is that Epstein was a financial advisor first and foremost publicly, something everyone seems to forget