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Gamergate is "the Ruby Ridge of online violence" (media.communities.win)
posted 4 years ago by Kimball_Kinnison 4 years ago by Kimball_Kinnison +94 / -0
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– ailurus 74 points 4 years ago +74 / -0

So, you're confirming that GG was a pretty innocent thing that was unfairly vilified by The Powers That Be, Heffernan? Cause that's what Ruby Ridge was.

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– Adamrises 50 points 4 years ago +50 / -0

And that the actual bad guys were false flaggers trying to stir up trouble to justify a response.

Damn it really does work.

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– ghostfox1_ 26 points 4 years ago +26 / -0

tfw the leftists prove your point for you accidentally

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– BidenLikesMiners 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

they accidentally proved that leftists believe men should have more rights than women.

shitlibs are garbage hypocrite fucks.

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– Steampunk_Moustache 42 points 4 years ago +42 / -0

page88

not sure if that's heil Hitler or two fat ladies.

Virginia Heffernan

Heffer-Nan? Like a fat grandma? Time to google, I guess.

The name Heffernan is derived from the Irish name Ó hIfearnáin, which comes from the given name Ifearnan meaning "demon".

So her name is literally "Virgin Demon".

The femcel threat is satanic.

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– AntonioOfVenice 37 points 4 years ago +37 / -0

You think that's bad?

Some Trump supporter mowed her lawn and she wrote a sociopathic article about how she was unable to forgive Trump supporters for... I know not what.

This is a microcosm of America: Trump supporters acting like normal, even generous human beings, and these sociopaths autistically screeching as they always do.

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– BidenLikesMiners 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

no, wasnt that someone shoveled her driveway? link the article here

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– deleted 25 points 4 years ago +25 / -0
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– deleted 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0
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– GeneralBoobs 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Considering Ed Buck, maybe we do.

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– ParadigmShift2070 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

same thing with Baltimore clean up, they mad because it made the people who live there looked so bad. a small group of white people spent only a day to clean up all the filth the residents left there to rot for decades because muh socioeconomic factors

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– ParadigmShift2070 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

well I guess it's not Every Single Time this time

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– RoccoRatchet 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

It took me until just now to figure out why 88 was synonymous with Nazis. Damn.

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– anonymous570861 35 points 4 years ago +35 / -0

Gamergate is "the Ruby Ridge of online violence".

Yes... This doesn't mean what the Femshevik thinks it means.

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– ShekelJa 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

They do not care what they call it as long as they use alliteration to trick the dumb fuckers into giving them ad revenue: Gamer Gate, Ruby Ridge, that's all they ever use to push their bullshit.

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– Deadlaw 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Words are magic spells to these people.

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– ParadigmShift2070 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

it really sounds like a cape shit name

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– deleted 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0
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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 31 points 4 years ago +31 / -0

Cunts really hate being called cunts

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– brimshae 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Now do groomers.

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– MegoThor 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

Groomers really hate being called groomers.

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– BidenLikesMiners 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

now do beetlejuice

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– SisyphusRockAndRoll 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice

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– celticwhisper 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

NICE FUCKIN' MODEL! hrnk hrnk

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– MegoThor 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Not into the Innsmouth look. Sorry.

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– deleted 0 points 4 years ago +0 / -0
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– Norenia 22 points 4 years ago +22 / -0

So... the ATF is Gamergate, trying to put false charges on Brianna Wu, and then started massacring their family in their home?

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– the_nybbler 21 points 4 years ago +21 / -0

Ah, yes, Ruby Ridge. Where ATF tricked a man into cutting a shotgun barrel 1/4" too short, then the courts fucked around with his court dates, then when he didn't show up to the court date which had changed without adequate notice, the FBI went and killed his wife, who was armed with an assault baby at the time. That Ruby Ridge?

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– altmehere 20 points 4 years ago +20 / -0

Twitch

Gamergate

This is how you know that these people have no clue what they're talking about and no interesting in finding out.

I've never seen a Gamergater express an overall positive opinion about Twitch. Most seem to be critical of it for one reason or another, whether it's the fact that it's owned by Bezos's Amazon, its use to sell borderline softcore porn and fake virtual relationships to minors, the administrators and moderators showing bias in moderation, or the bans on certain games.

As to why someone might livestream a criminal act on Twitch, it's probably because the platform is pretty much synonymous with livestreaming and there really aren't that many major players in the market.

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– brimshae 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

I've never seen a Gamergater express an overall positive opinion about Twitch.

I'll give it a whack. Twitch finally dropped that stupid Twitch app so if I want to play Autism Simulator Deluxe Minecraft mods I was able to find out about GDLauncher when looking for an alternate FTB-type Launcher.

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– NotAGlowy 15 points 4 years ago +15 / -0

Gamergate was the jussie Smollett of Media Hoaxes

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– BidenLikesMiners 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

wu was the maga country of victimized social media heroines.

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– deleted 13 points 4 years ago +13 / -0
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– Inbredsandwich1 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

https://seoklaw.com/legal-news/the-incident-at-ruby-ridge/

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– Sneak_King 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

Take your blood pressure meds first, then read the wiki page with the understanding that that version is favorable to the feds.

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– captain-shitpost 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

that's the crazy part... that the official fedwashed version still makes them look fucking terrible.

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– brimshae 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

tl;dr: A dude wanted to be left alone so he bought a home in the mountains.

Men with badges and guns came by and shot people who were minding their own business and not bothering anyone based on false pretenses.

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– ailurus 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

And they shot a dog too. Plus, "fun" fact, one of the primary shooters at Ruby Ridge was at Waco as well.

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– RoulerBleu 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

John Walker Flynt trying to stay relevant by periodic self-insertion.

Like he has to do with the open wound between his legs so it dosen't heal shut.

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– realerfunction 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

you are the villain here. all we wanted was to be left alone.

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– nuggetpatrol 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Close to 9 years later, still intentionally getting it wrong. It really did cut them deep realizing that they're wrong.

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– ShekelJa 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

A decade later and they are still quoting their very own holocaust.

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– BrainJuice 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

...so it's people who, while imperfect and sometimes morally confused, don't deserve the hate and vitriol thrown their way?

Huh, I actually agree!

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– brappablat 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

page88

Ok, Mein Frau.

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– brimshae 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

I thought only women were allowed on that podcast?

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– Fartinggoose 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Why are you posting this? A no body on twitter desperate for attention mentions gamergate and you viral market her podcast for her. 1 retweet and 12 likes is less attention than it's getting on this website.

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– Erithal 26 points 4 years ago +26 / -0

nobody on twitter

150,000+ followers

One of these statements about the twitter account is false.

Guess which one?

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– Fartinggoose 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Browse the tweets she's posting, there is no engagement what so ever. The most is 80 likes on 1 while the rest barely hit 20. Those followers are paid for bot accounts to appear relevant. Ten seconds of research would tell you this.

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– Erithal 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

I only care because of rule 7.

If what you say is true, so what? I can only laugh so hard...

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– deleted 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0
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– brimshae 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Someone can still be a nobody loser even with a large number of twitter followers.

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– Erithal 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

That makes the context of rule 7 even funnier:

Imagine paying to reach the follower threshold required for us to openly mock you. Hilarious.

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– AndurilElessar 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

And 149,999 of those followers are shills, and bots

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– Kimball_Kinnison [S] 14 points 4 years ago +14 / -0

I thought it was a political facepalm worth mocking.

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– Adamrises 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

Well apparently BatWu is part of it, who is both actual Gamergate history and somehow still a noteworthy person.

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– deleted 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0
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– Adamrises 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

I know, but regardless of how it happened Wu has been one of the most exchanged names of GG history. Was on actual television, actually ran for Congress and got a minuscule fanbase out of it, and numerous other times was cited as an expert of GG over the years. Including to this day apparently.

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– yvaN_ehT_nioJ 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Oh geez. You again. Don't you get tired of whining about shit all the time? Don't you have something better to do?

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– BidenLikesMiners 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

wow its almost like gaymurs would take an interest in gg LOOLO

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– MegoThor 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Oh uh, Virginia. Implying Ruby Ridge was bad is verboten.

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– BidenLikesMiners 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

what is, Madlibs for shitliberals, Alex.

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