>>815398>this board was at its best when a substantial chunk of the userbase were bernie/corbyn socdems indulging in radical chic. the infestation of reactionary freaks is precisely downstream of trying to keep libs out because nobody understands the basic social dynamics at play. (e.g. that if you bring libs in, they'll be pulled left over time, just as the moderately anti-social nature of 4channers has lead them to become full blown fascists with only a little nudging here and there by RapeApe.)true but the part you miss is that imageboards are inherently antisocial and reactionary because the type of people who need anonymity to say what they want to say aren't primarily the oppressed masses but the reactionary weirdos. since this is an imageboard it is very easy for undercover reactionary weirdos to pose as leftists and tell all the actual people with potential to be pulled left to fuck off to reddit, which they in fact do since this place is miserable, schizophrenic, and full of racists, homophobes, porn addicts, gore spammers, and people who can't even read a full conversation before weighing in with their absolutely sewn together frankenstein hot takes. a lot of the board is just ex-/pol/ who got alienated from /pol/ by disagreeing on 1 or 2 things out of 100.