If you told me that from 2016 onwards /pol/ would-
-start supporting islamic groups like the Taliban
-turn their backs on nations they called "based" and the like as with Poland on a whime
-simp for a nigger running for president and his gay spic friend
-hating a neo nazi group fighting to protect it's nation as with Azov
-and support Communist governments like China
-and start hating people wanting to own guns as with the shitflinging between /k/ and /pol/
I would've called you a fucking fag, but real life is chaotic, I honestly fear what retarded takes /pol/ will come up with in 3-5 years.
I think it's a bit silly to take OPs at face, value, and sillier still to personify /pol/ as a group with any sort of consensus.
Something I noticed about modern /pol/ is that the way the old imageboard format is used is different. It's really quite interesting.
The way it used to work is that an OP would start a thread about a topic and people in the thread would engage with the specific content of the OP. This seems to still be how most boards on 4chan work, but not /pol/.
Since OPs very rarely engage with their threads anymore, /pol/ threads are more of a "here's a topic, state your take" format. Almost like contained mini forums in their own right. For example:
OP isn't transgender. No one who regularly uses /pol/ thinks OP is transgender. The subtext here is simply "Tranny hate thread" and if you were to go into this thread you would see people posting their takes about trannies in general, sharing anti-trans memes, etc. Now, there would be a good amount of newfags "clapping back" at OP or whatever, but the purpose of /pol/ threads now is largely divorced from the actual content of the OP.
It's not uncommon to find a lefty, or particularly, pro-china OP and the entire thread uses the pic in the OP as a springboard/template to post more lefty comics while making fun of them, or for the china threads a bunch of china rekt webms.
On the surface, of course, this makes it look like /pol/ is entertaining or even accepting the ideas presented in the OP, but actually digging down you'll find that isn't the case.
A reason I think this happens is that users have grown used to "slide threads" and it is rarely expected for OP to ever respond to his thread, as well as threads being blatant about being "tranny hate threads" or "china rekt threads" getting targeted for deletion much more quickly than these bait threads.