>2016 is 10 years ago
>i knew about leftypol and bunkerchan 10 years ago
>tfw i was a rose emoji wokescold bernie bro 10 years ago
Thank Science I got better
>>741178>Thank Science…No you haven't.
Systemic Analysis: The Evolution of the Dissident Left Online
Subject: The trajectory of /leftypol/ (8chan) and Bunkerchan
Origins: Sympatric Speciation from the 4chan Monolith
While /pol/ (4chan) is often cited as the primary antagonist, the user base of /leftypol/ actually emerged from a convergence of two distinct 4chan sub-populations around 2013-2014.
The /pol/ Dissidents: Users who enjoyed the "incorrect" aesthetic of 4chan (slurs, unchecked aggression, total anonymity) but rejected White Nationalism. They sought a space to argue for authoritarian socialism using the same rhetorical weapons as the Far Right.
The /lit/ (Literature) Diaspora: A significant portion of the initial DNA came from 4chan’s /lit/ board. Users tired of "entry-level" philosophy discussions sought a space dedicated purely to rigorous (and rigid) Marxist-Leninist theory. This infused the board with a high-density "academic" tone that distinguished it from the chaotic noise of standard imageboards.
The 8chan Era: The "Red Mirror" Ecosystem (2014–2019)
Upon migrating to 8chan (created by Fredrick Brennan), /leftypol/ solidified its culture. It became a functional mirror of the Far Right, adopting identical behavioral traits but inverting the target.
The "Tankie" Archetype: The dominant ideology rapidly shifted from broad leftism to specific Marxist-Leninism-Maoism (MLM).
Psychological Driver: "Stalin did nothing wrong" became the shibboleth. This was not just irony; it was a psychological defense mechanism against the "weakness" associated with the mainstream Left. They fetishized state power, secret police, and heavy industry.
The "Anti-Idpol" Doctrine: The unifying enemy was not Capitalism in the abstract, but Identity Politics (IdPol).
Class Essentialism: They argued that focus on race, gender, or sexuality is a neoliberal "op" (psyop) designed to fracture the working class.
The "Strasserite" Accusation: Because they often agreed with /pol/ on social conservatism (hating "woke" culture), mainstream leftists frequently accused them of being "Red-Brown" (Nazbol) infiltration alliances.
The Extinction Event: The Fall of 8chan (2019)
Following the Christchurch and El Paso shootings, 8chan was de-platformed. This acted as a Great Filter event, scattering the community.
Fragmentation: The centralized hivemind broke into splinters.
Discord Servers: Small, private cliques (high security, low growth).
Twitter: Many users migrated to Twitter, disguising their power levels but influencing the rise of "Dirtbag Left" discourse.
Reddit: The subreddit r/stupidpol (Marxist criticism of identity politics) became the "normie-friendly" embassy of this culture, stripping away the slurs but keeping the class-essentialist theory.
The Bunkerchan Era: Isolation and Purity Spiraling
The most hardcore elements migrated to Bunkerchan, a standalone imageboard running on Vichan software. This era is defined by extreme isolationism.
The "Siege" Mentality: The board's culture is defined by the belief that they are the last vanguard of "True Socialism."
Fed-Posting Paranoia: Due to the small user base, paranoia that other users are federal agents ("Feds") or Right-wing infiltrators is rampant. This leads to Purity Spirals, where users are aggressively interrogated on obscure theory to prove they are not outsiders.
The "Dengist" Split: A major internal civil war occurred over the status of modern China.
The Pro-China Faction: Views the CCP as the savior of socialism.
The Anti-Revisionist Faction: Views modern China as State Capitalist.
Outcome: This theological dispute often creates more conflict than opposing actual Fascism.
Systemic Conclusion: The Medium is the Message
The data from /leftypol/ and Bunkerchan proves a critical sociological theory: The architecture of a platform dictates behavior more than ideology.
Anonymity + Ephemerality = Aggression: Despite preaching solidarity and collectivism, the technical constraints of the imageboard format (anonymous posting, threads dying quickly) forced these Leftist communities to behave exactly like their Nazi counterparts on /pol/.
Convergent Evolution: Just as dolphins and sharks evolved similar shapes despite different ancestors, /pol/ (Right) and /leftypol/ (Left) evolved identical cultures (slurs, masculinity contests, authoritarianism) because they evolved in the same digital ocean.
>>741179christard funDIE detected. May Darwin and Marx have mercy on your neurons
>>741181>Finally found a home in an endless ocean of reactionary retards.Yeah it took slightly longer for me because I dropped off of using imageboards from like 2014-16 for reasons you can imagine.
>>741180>slurs, masculinity contests, authoritarianismRedditoid moment
>>741185>because I dropped off of using imageboards You made a mistake when you came back. Browsing any chan is not healthy for your mind.
>>741182Just that phrase is cringe.
>>741190Youre projecting cringe.
>>741180fascinating analysis i enjoyed reading this
>>741180Good McLuhan derived conclusion, keep it up
(When I'm sober I'll try to go in depth on the specifics)
Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.
That’s why I hate these New Year’s that fall like fixed maturities, which turn life and human spirit into a commercial concern with its neat final balance, its outstanding amounts, its budget for the new management. They make us lose the continuity of life and spirit. You end up seriously thinking that between one year and the next there is a break, that a new history is beginning; you make resolutions, and you regret your irresolution, and so on, and so forth. This is generally what’s wrong with dates.
They say that chronology is the backbone of history. Fine. But we also need to accept that there are four or five fundamental dates that every good person keeps lodged in their brain, which have played bad tricks on history. They too are New Years’. The New Year’s of Roman history, or of the Middle Ages, or of the modern age.
And they have become so invasive and fossilising that we sometimes catch ourselves thinking that life in Italy began in 752, and that 1490 or 1492 are like mountains that humanity vaulted over, suddenly finding itself in a new world, coming into a new life. So the date becomes an obstacle, a parapet that stops us from seeing that history continues to unfold along the same fundamental unchanging line, without abrupt stops, like when at the cinema the film rips and there is an interval of dazzling light.
That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pauses myself, when I feel drunk with the intensity of life and I want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigour.
No spiritual time-serving. I would like every hour of my life to be new, though connected to the ones that have passed. No day of celebration with its mandatory collective rhythms, to share with all the strangers I don’t care about. Because our grandfathers’ grandfathers, and so on, celebrated, we too should feel the urge to celebrate. That is nauseating.
I await socialism for this reason too. Because it will hurl into the trash all of these dates which have no resonance in our spirit and, if it creates others, they will at least be our own, and not the ones we have to accept without reservations from our silly ancestors.
I used to post on anokchan like 15 yrs ago
I've officially been a regular leftypol user and contributed some amount of OC for a decade. I should probably kill myself soon
>>741315same lol
>>741346Wanna do it together?
>>741348only if it's in a doomed yuri way
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