A secret truth about the forum is that most of the things I know about the world come from this place. Atlas was more informative on my college thesis than most of the literature was, and certain posters have been major intellectual and personal influences in my life. I sometimes wish this wasn’t so, because I often feel like an imposter who’s take on a given situation is just from skimming the relevant atlas thread in 2016 or whatever.
I feel this so much
Basically everything I know about politics I learned from this forum (or other places in the Greater Atlasverse).