It's cool that there is still activity on this board sometimes. Well, since it's slow and the real /pol/ is fatally compromised, how about a political thread?
One of the main reasons I wanted to start this board was to be able to post lolicon manga unlike at 4chan. Another was clearly to provide a platform if anyone ever had an unpopular opinion censored in the TSF community (i.e. whistle-blowing about shitty TSF creators.) But I guess the drama has mellowed out a bit?
So since there isn't much activity I guess we could talk about politics a little. Originally I planned on being neutral and hands-off if the forum ever picked up enough people, but it's just the tumbleweeds here.
I never thought of myself as a conservative, but I have gradually moved further and further left. I still strongly believe in protecting the freedom to argue. Although I do somewhat regret mocking transgendered people too much for what I saw as over-sensitivity and their unwillingness to argue. I guess I might owe some people a mild apology? I just really hated political correctness, axioms, speech codes, and rules.
That said, I hate fascism and the resurgence of "white nationalism." So it has felt strange to be running a board within a board at a site that houses /pol/, where you'll get banned for contradicting a mad dictator. I think stupid people dwell there, and see no reason in posting there, knowing only far-right views are permitted.
It has been painful and sad to watch the descent of these alternate chans into alt-right stupidity, along with much of the anime and videogame loving internet that seemed so cheerful once. Anime has caused me to be less prejudiced, so I really expected that the love of drawings drawn by foreigners would have the same effect on other people over time. I just hope it'll just be a fad, and that most of the frogmen will eventually learn enough to grow out of it, and to be embarrassed at what they used to think.