I was a generally apolitical leftist before Gamergate happened. I just wanted to enjoy games. The outright lies of the media pushed me far away from anything they encouraged. Then as it happened and the 4 years afterwards I started drifting more and more "right" simply as the rest of the world seemed to jump off of a cliff heading left. As I looked into the causes of this I could see one tribe of people continually at the head of the propaganda and most egregious cases.
Nobody "recruited" me, some have enlightened me on aspects of history and society by presenting relevant facts. I reluctantly arrived at my positions after plenty of doubt and thought. Eventually coming to a racial awareness simply makes everything else fall into place, the causes become clear and obvious.
Back before gg, me too. The media being shit was a giant awakening, then how they covered the coming election made it crystal clear. Now we know that the accusations of a pee pee tape was probably dems accusing TRUMPF of what hunter did. The corruption is super deept, and the dems who used to stand for speech and freewill now want to control everyone who doesnt fall in line. They SHOUT DOWN people for having DIFFERENT poinbts of view, and want to MANDATE medical care, not unlike nazi germany did, for the 'lessers', and of course the illiberal faggots want to have politicians in charge of medicine. That has never gone wrongly, before. And exactly, the anti war party became everything it 'hated' under bush. Or maybe they were lying all along, I really DK, the fact that theyre incredibly corrupt is kinda secondary to trying to cheat Trumpf and also cheating their own candidates for not towing the line. No matter how many people 'like' the candidate, there is NO democracy in a party that doesnt have free elections. The media can cover it up, and the gaycelebs can be their spokesmen, But the truth is they value democracy as much as the democratic peoples party of NK do. And to say, that is likely vanishingly little. Fininshing the post before it becomes a novel, loll. god knows it could easily become one with all this corruption.
Seeing the smear campaign against anyone who dared say "Hey, Anita Sarkisian seems to not be into games and is just making money complaining" was the first look at this door. Sure, getting down at someone making a web show that was completely different from everyone else, and people saying "Wait, but aren't games supposed to be art?" was a plausable thing.
But the universal tactical nuke against the general concept of people who like videogames, because a few people paid to write videogames porked some shitty developer, and the rapid discovery on just how deep the rabbit hole... It's hard to imagine, but back then, games journalism was still passable. "This game we got paid to play early is a 8.5/10, cool game!" Partially because video games still were fun and about the games themselves. It was starting to be 60% multiplayer, and getting a bit concerning, but there was still enough good games to hoist game journalism. And then it was like a switch was flipped. Games couldn't be fun, MTX for all, pieces of crap had to make up 70% of the roster and blue hairs outnumbered the old wizards of coding 9-1.
Same. I didn't arrive at these conclusions because I wanted them. Many are contrary to everything I was brought up to believe in, but it's difficult to deny the truth once you are exposed to it.
I was a generally apolitical leftist before Gamergate happened. I just wanted to enjoy games. The outright lies of the media pushed me far away from anything they encouraged. Then as it happened and the 4 years afterwards I started drifting more and more "right" simply as the rest of the world seemed to jump off of a cliff heading left. As I looked into the causes of this I could see one tribe of people continually at the head of the propaganda and most egregious cases.
Nobody "recruited" me, some have enlightened me on aspects of history and society by presenting relevant facts. I reluctantly arrived at my positions after plenty of doubt and thought. Eventually coming to a racial awareness simply makes everything else fall into place, the causes become clear and obvious.
Back before gg, me too. The media being shit was a giant awakening, then how they covered the coming election made it crystal clear. Now we know that the accusations of a pee pee tape was probably dems accusing TRUMPF of what hunter did. The corruption is super deept, and the dems who used to stand for speech and freewill now want to control everyone who doesnt fall in line. They SHOUT DOWN people for having DIFFERENT poinbts of view, and want to MANDATE medical care, not unlike nazi germany did, for the 'lessers', and of course the illiberal faggots want to have politicians in charge of medicine. That has never gone wrongly, before. And exactly, the anti war party became everything it 'hated' under bush. Or maybe they were lying all along, I really DK, the fact that theyre incredibly corrupt is kinda secondary to trying to cheat Trumpf and also cheating their own candidates for not towing the line. No matter how many people 'like' the candidate, there is NO democracy in a party that doesnt have free elections. The media can cover it up, and the gaycelebs can be their spokesmen, But the truth is they value democracy as much as the democratic peoples party of NK do. And to say, that is likely vanishingly little. Fininshing the post before it becomes a novel, loll. god knows it could easily become one with all this corruption.
Seeing the smear campaign against anyone who dared say "Hey, Anita Sarkisian seems to not be into games and is just making money complaining" was the first look at this door. Sure, getting down at someone making a web show that was completely different from everyone else, and people saying "Wait, but aren't games supposed to be art?" was a plausable thing.
But the universal tactical nuke against the general concept of people who like videogames, because a few people paid to write videogames porked some shitty developer, and the rapid discovery on just how deep the rabbit hole... It's hard to imagine, but back then, games journalism was still passable. "This game we got paid to play early is a 8.5/10, cool game!" Partially because video games still were fun and about the games themselves. It was starting to be 60% multiplayer, and getting a bit concerning, but there was still enough good games to hoist game journalism. And then it was like a switch was flipped. Games couldn't be fun, MTX for all, pieces of crap had to make up 70% of the roster and blue hairs outnumbered the old wizards of coding 9-1.
I'm in a similar boat.
I used to consider myself very liberal, I guess I still do.
As I see the left wing parties and voters in my country go more and more insane I only look more favourably on the right.
Was regressive leaning before ultimately completely rejecting the regressive left after getting called ableist for asking a question.
Political views shifted directly towards the hardcore dissident right in a few short years after that.
Same. I didn't arrive at these conclusions because I wanted them. Many are contrary to everything I was brought up to believe in, but it's difficult to deny the truth once you are exposed to it.