Do you think that reading Don Quixote would save /pol/?
Do you think that reading Don Quixote would save /pol/?
Jordan Edwards
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Jaxon Smith
/pol/s problem isnt their ideas, some are quite reasonable.
It is their lack of subtlety and nuance that disgusts me.
Lucas Foster
It would save /a/
Grayson Ross
Reading anything denser than infographics would save /pol/
Asher Clark
The sheer size of /pol/ makes it unsaveable. It's a retard magnet
Christian Wilson
It's supposed to save Veeky Forums...
Nicholas Nelson
>/pol/
Is there a comic book version?
Thomas Jenkins
>yes goy, good goy, everything is "quixotic" and simply absurd, yes, nothing is worth striving for because it's all absurdity, yes, so why not just let it all rot, good goy
Jaxson Ross
We can't ignore /pol/s massive effect on the contemporary American political landscape.
Almost all of this Alt-Right non-sense, Trumps massive internet support, the spread of and popularization of fringe right wing ideas, and the general reactionary backlash witnessed during the election in some way can find its way back to /pol/
Funnily enough, as someone who used to browse the board religiously back when Moot was still around, I wholly believe half of all of it was mindless shit-posting that got out of hand.
Lucas Rivera
Am I the only one who thinks that /pol/ as we know it started with Eric Cartman from South Park?
First ironic, later sincere once the jokes started sounding a little too real and the dots started being connected.
Of course, dots can be connected any way you like. That's why nobody can agree on constellations, and why schizophrenics exist.
Asher Wright
What race are you?
Jaxson Jackson
>/pol/
>having self-awareness
lol
Adrian Fisher
Relevant
Parker Wood
>wrong side of history XDDD
Yeah, we've heard that we don't need to read 1,000 pages of Sancho Panza being a self-righteous little spic shit just to be confronted with such a brilliant argument
Luke Green
Don Quixote is garbage. Seriously, you should read it sometime. I actually agree with what the Knob said about it. A crude, sloppy work, it is.
Tyler Butler
/pol/ isn't a cause, it's a symptom.
This kind of 21st century populism has been slowly bubbling up all over the western world, in all demographics basically since Clinton's third-way became the hot new meme and every political party west of Russia made a mad grab for the centrist vote. For about 20 years we were in a situation where there was virtually no distinction between "right-wing" and "left-wing" parties. The hope being that a given party would retain their core demographic while also attracting independent voters in a great big arms race of compromise.
Only that didn't happen at all, it just alienated core voters and made them feel like their parties didn't care about them (true) so it just made them even more radicalized. /pol/ is just the young right-wing manifestation of it, mass-politics has been heading in this direction for quite some time now. And its not just unique to the right, it's happening to the left as well. It's no coincidence that more radical, more popular figures are appearing in every country and in every party all over the world. It's not edgy internet memes that are making this happen, this phenomenon is happening because the vast majority of society aren't being serviced by their leaders so they just become more desperate and more aggressive in their political goals. The memes are just another facet of this.
Lucas Ward
No. First off, it's a fast moving board, so unless you have someone dedicated to shilling it, it wouldn't have much of an overall effect. Second, the message(s) in Don Quixote could easily be turned on the head and subverted for their political agenda, i.e Sancho being a prime example of a deluded liberal whiteknight. Thirdly, Cervantes would simply be brushed off as a spic.
I would say Max Stirner would be great for unspooking their herd mentality and loosening the very tribal mentality they criticize the jews of, but considering how badly understood he is by fucking Veeky Forums itself, I doubt it will do any good.
The majority of their userbase are evidently young conflicted men seeking a little stability in a world that hasn't been kind to them (see: autism) – they conjure up ideological daydreams in which they find likeminded companionship, bonding together over their hunt for a shadow entity responsible for the percieved degeneracy in this world.
They are, in other words, emotionally driven. It doesn't help either that their intellectual foundation is unironically built around memes. If you want to subvert /pol/, you'll need to systematically appeal to their guts.
Luis Garcia
True. 60% of Trump voters said immigration wad the main issue for them, so it obviously goes much further than /pol/.
Aaron Price
*was
Noah Cook
>/pol/s massive effect on the contemporary American political landscape
>massive
Are you joking or what? I'm gonna give you a chance to provide some more arguments and examples before calling you an absolute idiot.
Aaron Moore
the memelords awoke the horde
Landon Martinez
No; the book is often giving arguments against jews, blacks and muslims while giving a lot of chances for Christian virtues which are portrayed in a very positive light. There's even a monologue that argues in favor of the life of a soldier that could easily be twisted in: Is great to be a soldier fighting for peace in behalf of the white race. It also portrays French as greedy and with a taste for clothes that can't be satiated. The three great slants against any man that I can gather from Cervantes and Quevedo are: There's nothing worse than being fag, cuck and jew but being all of them at once.
Even the monologue of the girl who is targeted as the killer of the astronomer can be used as a case for the white race as innocent, the guilty part would be the other races wanting to be near them.
Parker Watson
Hey sweet a shitty thread I can hijack for a question
What do you guys think of Tobias Smollett's translation? Is it good for a first read of Don Quijote?
Josiah Perry
>We can't ignore /pol/s massive effect on the contemporary American political landscape.
Sperg-tastic post, buddy!
Adrian Young
>/pol/
>reading
Nicholas Long
>reading anything denser than infographics would convince anyone that mass third world immigration is a good thing
???????????????
Oliver Powell
>traducciónes
Ay tío
Gavin Perez
Yeah why doesn't /pol/ just read the Huffington Post!?
Christian Fisher
Lincoln Edwards
>why doesn't a group of permavirgin conspiratard angry neets with undiagnosed schizofrenia just read x
Logan Jackson
/pol/ isn't far right enough
Nolan Green
>clearly not knowing that pol is a containment-board, not doing much for several years besides taking the blame for the real pols, as well as beeing an influenceable propaganda creation machine for several independent agencies
Also
>Seeing politics as something that fits into a right-left axis
Luis Thomas
>schizofrenia
Evan Gutierrez
/pol/ is my main board
And I've read Don Quixote
In spanish
Because it is my native language
Jose Smith
> (OP)
>/pol/ is my main board
>And I've read Don Quixote
>In spanish
>Because it is my native language
WOW, YOU'RE SOME SORT OF SPANISH MONGREL?
YOU'VE READ DON QUIXOTE IN SPANISH???
WOAAAHHHHHHHH NICE SPOILERS DUDE
Cooper Rogers
>implying /pol/ can read