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> Go hangout at Stormfront. Talk to white-nationalists. They're all gathering there

And lots of those people didn’t use to hang out there before we banned them from mainstream forums for having simple disagreements about what good policies and governance is.

We threw them out to the loonies, and wonder why they come back crazy. How about we take some responsibility for that?




What do you propose we do instead?

Leave them on mainstream forums where their words can lead to greater amounts of recruitment from the population? Reducing their recruiting arm to smaller-and-smaller portions of the internet is the goal.

The white-nationalist idea of White Genocide and "The Great Replacement" holds a great deal of power. As they discuss this nonsense in the mainstream, it only makes more and more believers come to their side.




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