Libtardism and militant atheism are bound to make a vicious comeback on social media in the next few years due to how cringe and obnoxious maga/tradcath/pagan larpers have become.I hated those things as much as the next guy but when you outcringe the cringe you can't not expect the pendulum to swing back with full force.In another 5-10 years 4chan will probably look like how it did in the 2000s/early 2010s.
>>544286031One can hope. Political Christianity in America always ultimately takes the form of letting the most retarded evangelicals operate as fun police and promote a psychotically hawkish foreign policy.I don't know why libertarian minded trolls decided to rehabilitate this dogshit over the 2010s. But we're remembering exactly why it was so loathed in the 00s.
>militant atheismThat was a thing because it was relatively soon after 9/11 and the country still had alot of influence from christian fundies, combined with muslims kicking us in the balls with the twin towers, it was easy to blame religion entirely.The other reason was that using the internet back then required a certain level of technical knowledge typically only possess by the young nerdy countercultural millennials rebelling against their parent's religious and political beliefs. Nowadays everyone and their grandma has access to a smartphone and the internet more accurately represents the general consensus (because normies are generally more religious.)I can't imagine something like that making a comeback.
>>544286187>I don't know why libertarian minded trolls decided to rehabilitate this dogshit over the 2010sIt's honestly one of the greatest mysteries of the modern internet in my opinion, how the edgelord moniker went from "fuck your god" to "christ is king" in less than a decade.
>>544286031I welcome a return to how things were
>>544286442Just because you don't like Obama doesn't mean you have to engage in sanewashing for the "Harry Potter is Satanic" crowd, as the online right ultimately did.
>>544286031Pendulums don't swing, they are swung.
>>544286031>pagan larpersWow imagine larping as your own people instead of some shit jews minted to poison your self esteem
>>544286187We didn't make the decision, it was made for us and its the same reason why OP is wrong about the pendulum swinging back towards the libs on social media.Social media got rightwing because social media became owned by people who are rightwing, and they leveraged algorithmic tools to push those talking points onto users in a dedicated shift, because their users voting republican benefits them personally and financially. It doesn't matter whether the pendulum SHOULD swing back towards the left or not, Musk and Zuckerberg have an active interest in making sure that it fails to do so, and all they have to do is isolate the ideas they don't want to spread, something which LLMs make easier than ever before.
>>544287254You follow a meme religion that worships trees and rocks that died a millennium ago because anons on /pol/ convinced you to. As opposed to not letting ancient fairy tales dictate how you live your life in the modern world.Who's the fucking sheep again?
>>544286031>In another 5-10 years 4chan will probably look like how it did in the 2000s/early 2010s.Is 4chan finally coming back to it's glory days?
>>544287565This, we're in the midst of the French Revolution 2.0
>>544288096Even if it shifts back culturally, there's no way to bring back the old userbase. Everyone has already split off to their own corners of the internet and they won't be coming back. If we wanted to get an experience like old 4chan again, we'd unironically need to make a NEW site that is more in line with modern social media architecture and then we get lucky enough that takes off. Something that offers anonymous posting + moderation that specifically filters out bad actors but otherwise lets topics flow regardless of position + finding a solution to botposts would be the best we could hope for.
>>544286031MAGA, catholic, and pagan posters are all as equally hellbound as atheists and non-Christians.Be a Christian instead of any of the above
>>544286031The problem was never that someone believed in God or not New Atheism became cringe because of how you had retards that would read books like The God Delusion, End of Faith, or God Is Not Great and they would just parrot that shit back to you. Like it was way more insightful than it was. Like they were enlightened and had the truth that the masses didn't have. When if you read something like The God Delusion, it's a rather cartoonishly simple explanation. That religion itself as the primary explanation for complex social, political and moral problems, including political and social conflicts. This appeals to midwits and idiots because they love to latch on to the "one thing", like this is "the reason" why Rome fell, it can't just be multiple reasons, over hundreds of years, something that oscillated too across those dimensions too. Then when you get a layer of moralising and proselytising on top of it that it starts to become really cringe. I was an Atheist in the early to mid 2000s, after the mid 2000s I just started calling myself an agnostic simply because I didn't want to be associated with those annoying fedora faggots. Because there was a social cost to be associated with them if you merely just said it when asked.The pendulum has swung the other way, but there are also people that are in their 20s or early 30s that were too young to know the fedora era (i.e. they weren't adults or even born during that time). So they really are the new fedora Christians. They're showing their crucifix prominently, talking about church and Jesus and reading prayers on streams to try to show off how much of a Christian they are. Which is clearly performative, they're trying to imitate what they think a good Christian should be but they have no reference. Because like the fedora Atheists they got a lot of re-enforcement from the internet. And surround themselves with other retards and amplify each others stupidity. Which is 100% what happened before.
>>544288427>Everyone has already split off to their own corners of the internet and they won't be coming backNot to mention that much of the old userbase unironically got a job and started a family and simply moved on.
>>544288411We really only have three historical options left to us from here:Fall of Rome 2 - our leaders fight each other over ever-dwindling scraps of internal power as the empire rots around them, great works crumble and are never replaced because we lack the means to do what we used to do before, and eventually we just sort of fall apart into irrelevance even if it takes decades to play out. Rome took 300 years to 'fall', it didn't happen overnight, but I imagine that America would crumble more visibly and faster because everything moves faster now.Gilded Age 2 - the rich took over the system and used it to fuck everyone else into poverty, it pissed off people enough that the voters actually pushed back and instituted socialist reforms that hindered and taxed the shit out of the rich, leading to a new era of prosperity for the country as we escaped the hole.French Revolution 2 - When the leaders are too out of touch with the people's suffering, eventually they break out the guillotines and replace them.Rome 2 is probably what we are in for, but I'm hoping that we manage to swing a gilded age 2 ending. thats the least destructive, most optimistic way forward.
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>>544286031The Jews reversed course on Atheism, because the remembered that Christianity is what protects and empowers them.
>>544288722Problem with the french revolution is that the people replaced their leaders with even worse ones.Which kind of mirrors obama and trump.
>>544286031They can't come back because of how integral Islam, as well as feminist speech control, became to the left-liberal coalition. In the right, there will be pushback against some of these Christian hysterics, but never something like New Atheism.>>544288640Fully subscribe. How people like JD Vance jumped onto the tradCath larp to virtue signal, while everybody with any knowledge of the Catholic Church would know it is one of the biggest purveyors of open-borders globalism in the West, and it's particularly atrocious in the Americas, hence the last two Popes were from there.>>544289051Half-true. The Catholic Church is very aligned with the UN and thus indirectly anti-Zionist. The Popes has started many quarrels with Israel, and Meloni came to back them up bc she needs the Catholic vote.
>>544286031nothing's more cringe than a vampire thrall
>>544289190Where did the "atheists are too scared to criticize islam" narrative even come from? I watched the banana fucker back in the day and he absolutely did shit on goatfuckers almost as much as christians.
>>544286031https://youtube.com/shorts/NK2_raQ4l5o?si=9r4OwJXWJYr0jO2o
>>544289620the institutional socialists probably don't consider themselves atheists
>>544288905What
>>544289620Maybe I wasn't clear: I'm saying that due to how integral Islam is now to the left-liberal coalition (see the centrality of Palestinianism), they cannot do anything like that without being marginalized entirely. Even if there is a split between the third-worldist left and core "Democrats" (see American Democrats and Macronism), the latter are purely technocratic authoritarians with not one "liberal" bone left in them, and they all support imprisoning people for obscene/offensive speech.The most accepting home for such people at the moment is still among the right, even if it is still less so than a decade ago, I reckon
