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>>7856
In my opinion there are only about 20 or 30 regular posters, no more than 50 or 60 at most. If there is a breaking news event that number goes up though.

I'm not sure what can be done with /pol/, but I'm sure opinions here will vary wildly. Personally I think it's become too tinfoil for my tastes lately. Too much flat earth and illuminati BS. I think Hiro needs to make a /tin/foil conspiracy board for these people.

>>7856
> How many people do you think post on this board
God seriously, I can only pick out maybe fifteen. Doesn't mean there aren't more, I'm only basing this on how many unique personalities I interact with.

> How/why does this board have such quality discussion?
It's slower, so it's easier to take time to think out your arguments. A well-thought out post on /pol/ might exist for thirty minutes, and maybe one or two people read it. You never get a response because by the time people have had time to formulate their arguments, the thread has 404'd.

>How can /pol/ improve their quality of discussions?
You probably can't. /pol/ is what it is because there are people who want to post what gets posted there. If you try and reform it into something it's not, those people will have to go elsewhere--- they may end up coming here.

I don't think /pol/ is a bad thing though. It's an intimate look at things people keep hidden in polite society. Some people call it a "dark underbelly" but I think that misunderstands the value of it. It's lives on gut truths, things people know--or think they know--without all the polish, glitz, and virtuous posturing. This is why it's so hilarious.

>7856
It'd help if /pol/ wasn't an echo chamber circlejerk where anything not extremist far right is screamed at until it leaves. /pol/ is just tumblr for psycho ultra conservatives.

>inb4 I go to /pol/ and I am not conservative token post
Then you are a masochist.

The problem with /pol/ is it's a political board that only allows one side of a political argument. Sadly, I've had better more varied political debates on /b/ than I have on /pol/ simply because there were more varied opinions besides "nutjob hillbilly conservative"

>>7745
The graph is kind of odd.
Like, of course you'll have Netflix at the top because people will stream full movies on it.

Youtube is mostly shorter stuff.
I'm not so sure about the Facebook stuff, but isnt it mostly just very short Vine-style clips?

Its an odd way to measure popularity. It should be click based instead or something.

>>7746
Facebook is stolen Youtube content.

>>7746
Most Facebook vids (any "viral" ones anyway) are quite literally reuploads of Youtube videos, sometimes even by the same uploader. The Youtube ones always have way more views too, despitte it being quicker/easier to share on Facebook, which is the only reason viral Facebook vids are a thing at all.

Youtube is too big, it'll probably always be the go-to for user-created video content.

>>8149
Sounds like another average Thursday in South Africa.

>>8151
Yeah, hasn't this been going on for a couple years now?

and that is how /pol/ was born

Though I doubt many are going to concern themselves with this article, I find it pretty interesting that they've caught this person after such a long time. Apparently the US had a decent bounty for his capture. I doubt we'll hear anything enlightening when he goes to trial, but I feel like the more press cases like these get, the more chance African countries that are willing to, can start to recover from past horrors and prevent further increases in conflict, especially ethnically motivated conflicts.

>>8051
Could I move to Africa and make a killing getting paid for these Bounties? Are there alotta people like him running around, money waiting to be made?

>>8050
so... how true is the official story? It portrays the massacre as one sided, but in reality we only have the word of the winners against no proper record, any attempt at investigation (like sampling those skulls there) is called out as genocide denialism, and the new president in office is US-backed.

Also, which side actually killed the previous president.

I find it very hard to believe that the genocide was so one-sided as the official story goes, and "innocent until proven guilty" only applies to whenever you are not obstructing investigation on the subject.

This is bullshit.

>>7875
On a scale of 1 to sasha grey, how fucked is the US if shale collapses?

Is being so nice to Saudi Arabia paying off? Looks like no.
9/11: Saudi Arabia
Islamic State: Saudi Arabia

What is the USA waiting for?

He was on his way to buy some milk

He dindu nuffin'! hes a good boy, just oppressed!

>>>/7000/

Search the catalog before making news threads pls.

>>7602
Why is that murderer Caitlyn Jenner even on the list?

Is this a list for Americans or is it supposed to represent the world? Because I don't see how some "literally who?" Americans are on the same level as globally relevant statesmen.

>>7606
The only one I didn't know is Travis Kalanick, who it turns out is the founder and CEO of Uber.

>>8024
>The conference is full of exhibitors showcasing their carbon cutting technologies–each of which would benefit greatly from taxing carbon or forcing commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Environmentalist movement has been co-opted by Wall Street which smells the massive profits that will come from manipulating "carbon credits", the hippies just haven't caught on to it yet and won't until it's too late and we're all fucked.

>some people are financially motivated to reduce the use of fossil fuels!
>fossil fuel industry has nothing at stake
Which industry spend more money lobbying the U.S. government?

>reducing CO2 emissions will increase energy prices and force consumers to use less.
I bet everyone in Bejing wishes they'd been paying more and using less for the last 20 years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/asia/beijing-smog-pollution.html

>>8024
>Implying that it's possible for a westernised economy to cut down on energy useage in any way other than better engineering.
>He doesn't know that cheap electronic consumables are about the only thing distracting the majority of people under 30 from rioting in the streets. The other thing is the SJW... counter riots? False Flag Riots?
>Implying that renewable energy isn't a win for everyone aside from the oil companies.

>>8062
>Implying op isn't an oil shill

I'm not saying that I believe every single statistic the green lobby spits out, but securing humanities energy needs for the next few centuries in exchange for a few white lies is a burden I'm willing to bear.

Sounds like a prime trolling opportunity.

>>7840
>LaBeouf made his name in films like the Transformers series, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

I'd question my right to being famous too.

this is a golden opportunity

>>7559
Maybe they could make work camps for them, camps in which works makes you free...

>>7559
>refugees will steal both your country and your job
Nice

>>7559
>nice way
this displaces a finn man from a job

I say it again and again mass immigration only benefits corporations because it dilutes the value of the middle class worker and sleazy leftist who gains an instant voter base. they just let the media they also own sugarcoat it under trendy BS like racism and diversity so the morons eat it up

>>8018
This is a sappy news article...

>>8018

Fuck you maple syrup. Its like 50 dollars half a litre.

U seem a lil mad

>>7883
real life is very interesting, you don't need to make shit up.

>>7851
Post more real news then, faggot

The quality of the board is left up to the people that post on it.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks.

On the Russian periphery, it is widely believed that Russia has used the Islamic State as an opportunity to get rid of domestic jihadis.

“In spring 2014, local information networks provided credible information that individuals affiliated with Russian security forces were recruiting potential jihadists in Pankisi and in the Northern Caucasus to travel to Syria,” says Giga Bokeria, a former Georgian national security adviser. “They were promising financing for trips, and assistance acquiring weapons.”

Pankisi is a remote, mountainous Georgian region bordering Russia with a local population of Georgian Muslims, known as Kists. Omar al-Shishani, one of the Islamic State’s top commanders, is from Pankisi.

Oleksandr Danylyuk, formerly chief of staff to Ukraine’s Minister of Defense and now chairman of Ukraine’s Center for Defense Reforms, believes there is a strong connection between the Islamic State and the Russian government.

“ISIS is definitely a product of the Russian special services. Only the blind cannot see it. A significant part of the terrorists are citizens of the Russian Federation,” Danylyuk said, using a common acronym for the Islamic State. “The ISIS military command is composed of former Saddam Hussein generals, who studied in the Soviet Union and worked closely with the KGB,” says Danylyuk.

“The connection between the Russian-speaking jihadis and the Russian-trained ex-Baathist Sunni military officers is what formed the core of what we now think of as ISIS,” said Estonian expert Eerik-Niiles Kross.

Kross, now a member of Estonian parliament, is a former director of the Estonian intelligence services, and served under the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in 2003-2004, working to rebuild the Iraqi military intelligence organization.

“Based on Russia’s history of infiltrating and manipulating terrorist organizations and extremist groups, it’s not so far-fetched to believe there is an operational relationship — at some level — between Russian security services and elements of ISIS,” he said.

The conflict in Syria has allowed Russia to rebuild relationships with European countries that were damaged by the Russian intervention in Ukraine.

While the White House remains publicly cautious about collaborating with Russia against the Islamic State because of Russia’s support for Bashar al-Assad, the possibility of a Russian connection to terrorist attacks in Western countries would add a new element to Russia’s relationship to the West.

In Washington, however, Russia’s relationship with Islamic radicals has not been seriously evaluated, according to several congressional sources.

“The issue of Russia’s relationship with ISIS has been raised in closed door briefings on the Hill,” said one senior staffer with knowledge of recent intelligence briefings to lawmakers. “It’s unclear how much the administration has looked into this issue.”

But people in states close to Russia say American and other Western officials have been reluctant to accept information on Russian involvement in recruitment for extremist groups despite the use of explicitly anti-American rhetoric as incitement for enlistment.

“More than 80 percent of ISIS’s weapons are Russian-made,” offers Danylyuk. “In Syria and Iraq we are witnessing the same form of hidden aggression as in Ukraine.”

“The problem is,” he says, “if Russia is recruiting for ISIS, and ISIS is attacking European and American targets — will anyone be willing to say that Russia bears responsibility in these attacks?”

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/moscows-connection-to-the-islamic-state/

Wallace has a string of convictions for violent offences including possession of a knife.
He converted to Islam while in prison serving a sentence of almost five years for attempted robbery
Three weeks after he was released he posted the messages on a thread of comments on the UK Truth Movement Facebook page.
Wallace today pleaded guilty to sending threatening communications at Hendon Magistrates' Court.

Wearing a white traditional Islamic dress and a grey jumper slung over his shoulders, he spoke only to confirm his name and address before entering a guilty plea.
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on December 30.
The court heard the messages came to light after Ms Leslie's father saw the comments online and reported them to police.
Wallace claimed he was 'venting his anger' and had not had any sleep because he had been 'protesting for two or three days'.
District Judge Mark Jabbitt said: 'What's absolutely clear is that your language and expressions about this MP Ms Leslie, who you have no knowledge of, went beyond any sort of legitimate comment or protest on an extremely serious issue.
'What you did was personalised it and used really the most vile, insulting and threatening language imaginable on a forum.'

He ordered a full risk assessment report on Wallace and expressed concern that he was not being formally supervised after his release from prison.
Abu Sayeed, defending, said Wallace has mental health issues and had not been taking his anti-psychotic medication.
'He has co-operated fully with the police and expressed remorse and regret,' he added. 'He made the comments to vent his anger.
'Mr Wallace is a Muslim convert, he converted while serving his last sentence. He feels very passionately about the bombing in Syria and the vote recently taken in Parliament.
'He had been out with other protesters and was protesting for two or three days and not had much sleep and hadn't taken his medication.'
Wallace has never met Ms Leslie and thought the page was a 'closed group', Mr Sayeed said.
'In the current climate people would have been fearful of his comments,' he added.

Wallace, whose mother died when he was young and who claims his father abused him as a child, had attended an anti-war rally outside Parliament on the day of the Syria vote and was pictured carrying a giant white poppy.
Shortly before he sent the messages he also posed for a series of pictures with strangers carrying a placard that read: 'I am Muslim, I am labelled a terrorist, I trust you, do you trust me enough for a hug?'.

The day after the vote Wallace sent Mr Benn an email, which he then posted on his Facebook page.
It said: 'I hope to God that you will have nightmares when you hear that kids woman and men have been murdered by your govt.'
The court heard Wallace had been in and out of custody since he was 13 after being expelled from school following the death of his mother when he was eight.
The judge warned Wallace the maximum sentence for the offence was six months.

Wallace, of Teignmouth Road, Willesden Green was remanded into custody, while risk assessments reports were carried out.
He is next appear at Willesden Magistrates court for sentencing on December 30.
A number of other MPs, many of them in the Labour Party, have complained to police that they had received death threats after voting in favour of airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria.
Neil Coyle, the MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, said police had stationed extra officers outside his surgery after he received an apparent death threat on social media, while Labour Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has spoken out about receiving an apparent death threat on Facebook after he voted in favour of the military action.

>>7646
>In a public statement leader of ISIS Abu al Baghdadi "we have been outmemed and my Twitter got hacked. God willing we will lay down our arms."
If real then ISIS are true troll masters.

>>7646
>Daeshbags

That actually elicited a giggle from me

Although tbh anonymous has become more and more reddit over the years.

If Anonymous really wanted to stop ISIS they would hack their Facebook profiles and post gay porn all over them.