Hold up a minute.
Most nerds I know have GIGS of pr0n. 33 images could have easily been downloaded along with hundreds of others and he just never bothered to delete along with hundreds or thousands of other images. Do you really think for a minute that this guy had only 33 images all of child pron?
Although it was a BBS, users would respond to threaded topics so frequently that you would have real time conversations with people on several topics at a time. I would find myself hanging around the site for an hour or two having discusions in multiple topics. I would read one, make responses, then read the next. By the time I got back to the first one, there were usually multiple replies. Within even just a few minutes I could have had several exchanges with the same person.
The drawback to this was that once a topic fell off the main page it was usually no longer discussed (out of sight, out of mind), with the exception of a few topics that would go on to have thousands of replies. Some topics were also brought back, especially when using what somebody said in a previous topic to throw back at them if they are caught doing a 180 on the same topic later.
... somebody refers to themself as a "Daily Show Liberal".
So... then what you are telling me is that the majority of the information you receive about current events and the conclusions and positions you've derived come from a comedy show.
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Hold up a minute. Most nerds I know have GIGS of pr0n. 33 images could have easily been downloaded along with hundreds of others and he just never bothered to delete along with hundreds or thousands of other images. Do you really think for a minute that this guy had only 33 images all of child pron?
Although it was a BBS, users would respond to threaded topics so frequently that you would have real time conversations with people on several topics at a time. I would find myself hanging around the site for an hour or two having discusions in multiple topics. I would read one, make responses, then read the next. By the time I got back to the first one, there were usually multiple replies. Within even just a few minutes I could have had several exchanges with the same person. The drawback to this was that once a topic fell off the main page it was usually no longer discussed (out of sight, out of mind), with the exception of a few topics that would go on to have thousands of replies. Some topics were also brought back, especially when using what somebody said in a previous topic to throw back at them if they are caught doing a 180 on the same topic later.
... somebody refers to themself as a "Daily Show Liberal".
So... then what you are telling me is that the majority of the information you receive about current events and the conclusions and positions you've derived come from a comedy show.