How do I stop getting stressed out over /pol/? I've been a user there for over a decade now and came in around the gamergate fiasco. While my politics have changed since I was an edgy teenager and I generally am not the biggest fan of political rage bait/trolling and whiny shitposts, i still find myself going back every once in a while for nostalgia's sake since it's one of the last places that reminds me of the old school internet with little censorship or moderation. I also just see it as the antithesis of reddit or twitter or something and find myself going back and forth to observe a variety of opinions and topics from various parts of the internet whenever there's a major happening going on. Yet every time I leave /pol/ in particular I always have a pounding headache and find myself more irritable and pissy for the rest of the day.I'd hate to leave completely since it feels like it's part of my identity now and i like seeing more than one side of a debate but the shitposting genuinely feels like it's lowering my lifespan sometimes.
>>34474774The ENTIRE PURPOSE of /pol/ is as a place for people to go purple with rage over their weird political hang-ups
>>34474774>it's one of the last places that reminds me of the old school internet with little censorship or moderationpol is nothing like the old Internet. the old Internet got by without censorship or moderation because people knew each other and it was a club for friends. pol is just anonymous aggressive offtopic schizos constantly and everyone hates each other and posts to make everyone feel bad
>>34474868This, 4chan of today or even 10 years ago is nothing like 2000s 4chan, it's almost entirely bots and paid shills now.
>>34474849Have you ever seen anyone legit change their mind there or anywhere on the internet for that matter?
>>34475478retards, yes. i dont want to know how many people with learning disability got turned into unironic alt-right neonazi magachuds by pol.denying the massive influence of /pol/ is delusional. the trickle down effect from neonazi sites to /pol/ to normie-social-media had a gigantic impact on world politics over the past decade. and i do not mean this as a compliment to /pol/, i mean to say that people are generally a lot more retarded then people give them credit for.
>>34474774if you find anything there worth saving, you're still an edgy teenager mentally.
>>34476298Perhaps i am. Or perhaps i just want to hold onto the good old days.
>>34474774as someone who has been here since 2004, /pol/ was always funny but too repetitive and never really held a special place in my heart. i'd say /s4s/ and /bant/ are more what the old internet used to be like, tbqh
>>34476090I had quite a few friends in high school that were pretty apolitical/left leaning and sane prior to 2014 or so who eventually went down that rabbithole and never came back.
