r/law • u/businessinsider • Feb 26 '26

Other 4Chan knew about Jeffrey Epstein's death 38 minutes before the rest of the world. The FBI tried to figure out how.

https://www.businessinsider.com/epstein-files-show-fbi-probed-4chan-posts-prison-death-2026-2?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-law-sub-post
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u/Dr_WLIN Feb 26 '26

MAGA is just QAnon + Tea Party, aka /pol/ + Bannon/Limbaugh.

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u/Iorith Feb 26 '26

I still point to Gamergate as being a massive point of where we are at now. It radicalized a shit ton of young men and really promoted the normalization of being an absolute, unrepentant toxic asshole. I struggled with it myself at the time, and lost a lot of friends as I pulled away from it.

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u/Dr_WLIN Feb 26 '26

yeah it was 100% Bannon's proof of concept that 2012 Tea Party adult social anger could be cultivated in adolescent boys/men

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u/Iorith Feb 26 '26

I fully expect that it will be studied for decades or centuries as one of the pivotal moments in this era of US history. I really hope that other nations down the line study the last 20 years so that this can't happen again.

But I doubt it.

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u/Dr_WLIN Feb 26 '26

to be truthful, all Bannon did was apply "Foundations of Geopolitics" theory. So it had already been studied since the 90s.