Not sure where to post this. Maybe the a meta thread would be better. But since it's about another board, might as well just use this one.
After this shitshow with 8 and the shootings and refugees arriving here and reading some complaining about /pol/ and such, my thoughts sometimes just revolve around the topic.
I also watched this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yMlrBL1Tgmw [Embed]
It's just Hotwheels saying he has nothing to do with anything, it's Jims fault and take down pol. And this latter point which made me think if it's even possible taking it down. Beside the fact, that it's possible just to create another board (let's say 8 comes back, but even here) or just move to elswhere, or call it different, I don't think pol is "killable" anymore. I think it's more now, a meme in the original sense and not as it is usually used as a synonym of joke that it is a living idea, a incorporeal organism. No matter what imageboard admins do, and no matter what irl power groups, law enforcement, government, SJW institutions, whatever do it won't go away and can't be made to go away because at this point it's in people's head.
I said it earlier I think back on 8, after new BO took over and he was a faggot and banned for "polposting" that those ideas which are posted on pol or topics discussed aren't new, they are just dressed in other forms. Now pol itself is just an outlet where some things can be said which irl many of those dudes just couldn't say. It's not impossible to say these stuff irl, there were circles that did before pol existed and do it since then just fine, however those guys who use the pols of many chans just aren't the type who would fit in those circles. But they are used to say stuff now and want to say stuff now and will find a way to do it, even those who just post these stuff ironically or for trolling purposes, not only those who take the stuff seriously. They got used to the idea of being a poltard, the behaviour, the way of thinking which comes with it, and will continue to be poltards and think like that even if the whole internet gets closed down.