My friend sent me a link to a thread on the infamous 4chan.org/b/ . Threads there max out at 300 comments and I caught it and saved it right before it was deleted.
Apparently someone came to these forums some time ago inquiring with a fantastical what-If scenario and didn’t like what he heard.
Nothing really to see here, minus mildly interesting voyeurism; move along.
the moment 4chan begins raiding mises.org, is when you should all worry.
Then again, it might have the eventual effect of a massive free marketing push (for the sake of “lulz”, of course) & could be eventually beneficial whenever the servers were to hypothetically stopped being “raeped”.
Imo, 4chan is pretty good about an H.L. Menken style of “equal opportunity offending” regarding socialists,libertarians, anarchists, etc. Given enough threads & thread-jacks, the entire political spectrum(s) will all get their moments of ridicule.
They’re your everyday kid between 15 and 30. A lot of it is just an act and is indeed just for teh lulz. But, 75% of them have extreme disdain for anyone who believes in a god and rejects socialism.
Like Nitro said, nothing to see here. Anonymous attacks everything and everyone. It’s when they have a campaign on the level of Project Chanology against libertarianism or Austrian ecnomics that we have to worry.
Pft, worry about… what? Can you explain it to me? (or are we joking about that, I apologize if I missed it) Their casus belli is a debate over a simple hypothetical question that is easily solved.
I have occasionaly seen on this forum a reluctance to debate or explain to people who don’t understand. Often the debate falls into an ad hominem flurry (no different than any forum or any other conversation for that matter). So I guess it could be possible there is also resentment to that. However, I’d like to see how the “[people] on mises.org” refused to solve the problem.
Also, his hypothetical situation is easily explainable. The farmer can always go ask other people for food, the farmer more than likely has something to trade, and even if the other farmer is unwiling to share his food with him he might be willing to trade, etc. (you could say he’s stranded on a deserted island with only the other farmer but then he could always go fish.)
Perhaps an ad hominem attack is warranted, you don’t need to understand economics to solve such an easy logical problem. This also leads me to believe that the whole thread there might simply be another 4chan gag, many of the replies are typical trolling and lulz.
LOL!!! See, you can’t hate the 4chan people, I love them dearly, they provide me mountains of kinky hentai and completely humiliate the people I hate most. +1000 internetz
No, it was directed at everyone preaching the inevitable doom of the Misesian Empire at the hands of the 4chan barbarians. I’m sorry, if my post sounded antagonistic or anything.
But yes, I am looking for a response, I’m curious (confused?) what all the hubabaloo is about. I understand the thread is humorous in vein, but the changing of the topic title and the fact that it was posted in the first place both confused me and lead me to believe the thread was either a joke or a initiation of a debate regarding the 4chan scenario. Again, I apologize for the misunderstanding, but I ask for leniency in regard to my English as I am freshly released from the public school system.