Quote from: Aether on September 15, 2017, 02:19:43 PM

kek/kekistan is not a white nationalist symbol smfh.

It's just a meme parody of identitarianism. A satire making fun of people who constantly talk and whine about their identity.

I suppose it's at least pretty hilarious that most of the people 'kekistan' is satirizing aren't able to see it, and actually believe it's a serious hate group.

No, but I really don't think anyone can genuinely argue that there is no relation with the alt right and its shitty ideologies, regardless of whether it intentionally started as it or was just adopted by these kinds of people.

Okay, all I've stated is that the meme itself is not a symbol for white nationalism. In fact, it actually pokes fun at white nationalists. Kekistan has everything to do with identitarian ideologies because it's taking the piss out of identitarianism. The irony that identitarians have adopted the meme as a symbol for their ideologies is actually really amusing.

The Flood BEFORE the site update was good, #Offtopic starting in 2013 was a cesspool of garbage. I'll do you a favor and not bring up the cancer that helped kill off The Flood because I've bitched about him enough, but there were still others that pissed all over having any sort of decent discussion about anything serious. People like Dustin and Harlow would shit up literally every thread that conflicted with their world view. Especially Dustin, who couldn't read and then blew things way out of proportion with his lack of full understanding about what he was complaining about.

It shocks me to have you say there was "Decent" discourse there, because I got anything BUT that.

Also, on topic: Come on, just because idiots take a joke and pull it into an extreme doesn't mean that it actually IS a hate symbol. There's a Hispanic guy working at my local Chipotle with a Pepe button on his work hat, is he neo-nazi because of what certain people say about a stupid cartoon frog? Doubtful. The original intent of the joke is still there regardless of who is using it. Kids will still look up and share "rare pepes" as a dumb joke with each other, and I also doubt these same kids are white supremacists. This is pure overreaction; the more people freak out over this, the more others are going to be inclined to spread it.

You lost me there too. What was so bad about what it was beforehand? Old Flood was pretty decent. Far from perfect, but better than what it is now. I had so many good discussions on there about all sorts of political topics.