Originally Posted by
sonatine
i think yall are vastly overestimating micon's emotional involvement here, and underestimating how deeply welded this sites brand is to trump cultists / right wing smoothbrains / outright fascists.
i honestly think a lot of people here have completely normalized the toxic stupidity that gets bandied about here.
honestly the comments ive seen about this place on twitter are eyebrow raising, normal well adjusted people do not want to party with pfa.
This is beyond unfair. Those who are making comments critical of PFA on Twitter had the exact same things to say about NWP and DD. Basically the complaint has long been that the rules are too lax and that people post offensive things.
There are more left-leaning posters here than right-leaning ones. You love to say that PFA is an alt-right cult site, but that's simply not true. I'm not sure if you really believe it, or if you're saying it for shock value. If it's the former, that's really sad.
The people who "don't want to party with PFA" would have been even less impressed with skatz, boris, and other sites you've frequented, had they been aware of their existence.
I had a choice when I started PFA in March of 2012. I could have started a serious gambling/poker and anti-scams forum, or I could have started a continuation of NWP/DD mixed with those aforementioned serious topics. I chose the latter. Choosing the former would have been much easier on my overall rep in poker. I could have grandstanded as the guy selflessly fighting scams, unburdened with the baggage of the offensive elements of this site.
There was only one of the "NWP Three" who actually gave a shit about that forum's community, and I'll give you a hint -- it wasn't the Bitcoin Baron of Antigua, nor was it the one who wailwoaded Jennicide.