You realize /pol/ literally DID start as a joke and then spiraled into absurdity because the people who didn't get the joke thought they were in good company? That's what fucking happens.

4chan is the genesis of the q-tards though. That's taking it so seriously someone shot up a pizza place and someone else started mailing bombs.

Also if we just take /pol/ in its incarnations… well we've got at least two manifestos… this year.