My theory is that these people posted on the chans in order to indulge in their toxic power fetish or something else along those lines. It gave them a high.
Personally, looking at what I see, anyone who says they disavow the chans or kiwi isn't "vewwy vewwy sowwy".
They just get their jollies in other ways now. It's known as is that Zoe Quinn was a helldump poster, for example.
At least we have the balls to admit that we like laughing at dumb and stupid shit.
Anyone else have any thoughts along those lines?
There are those that believe /pol/ to be sarcasm and irony, and there are those that don't. I am one who does not, fanaticism is an understated expression today and there will be those who want and need to think socially in those terms. They will find outlets to explore those ideas and emotions.
What I heard during and throughout the
Greater Game of the Gate was Leftists apologizing on the
Ess-Jay-Double-U side about adding to the
Tee-Yox-Ick Kul-tur. I was angry at the sell-outs, but I also learned that the denial that /pol/ was perfectly serious about Jews and cultural decadence was believed by so many. It really was idiots claiming to be idiots accidentally drawing in idiots, and all that. These people thought they were ironic, and what they found was that a number of people thought the whole thing was serious business. They were distraught to say the least.
However, you are right, there was something about ironically acting out National Socialism and its hatred of Jews which indulged certain spiteful mutants. There are people whose hatred, born very early in their life around some idea of inferiority, caused them to absolutely love being the scary internet nazis. Now they back different sides, although the actual National Socialists had a term called "
Rindersteak Nazi" for those like these ex-/pol/ in the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts, SA) ranks who were Communists and Social Democrats and that a whopping 70% of the 1933 to 1934 recruitment of storm troops were these sort of "brown outside and red within" nazis. There was a whole political discussion in early NSDAP thought, which I think is very relevant today, where it was thought to be easier to recruit a communist rather than a liberal because a communist was more willing to admit the current political order was unfixable whereas the liberal was not.
The truth is that any political faction that believes that the current World Order today is fucked up and unworkable will see their ranks and fans shift widely between the other groups that also think that the current World Order today is fucked up and unworkable. People don't give a shit how the world works in such details, they just need to feel that they can succeed in getting their house/spouse working within the reigning system. Its biological, and liberal democracy is fucking the dog thinking it can just not let huge numbers of people find love & success, and breed.
Today huge numbers of people left /pol/ to "get their jollies in other ways" as you correctly put it. But the scary truth is that they would just as easily switch back if the right had a real fanatical leader. They have no sense-of-self and will morally/politically bend more wildly than you think, or fear. They will adopt whatever mindset allows them to tolerate themselves and their lives better than the other mindsets will, from moment to moment without any sense of shame.
