There were two distinct schools of thought among proponents of gamergate:
this psychotic woke tyranny is largely isolated to academia, and these kids are in for a very rude awakening when they collide with the real world outside of their university hugboxes
this psychotic woke tyranny is already making its way into the halls of power and could unilaterally dominate our culture, our industries, and our governments very soon
Looking back on it now, most of the people in the first camp developed terminal TDS and eventually outed themselves as crypto leftists. They refused to acknowledge that their side had been completely taken over by Marxism, and now they spend their days fighting the imagined fascism of MAGA white nationalism.
TLDR: fuck you lying classical liberal/libertarian retards, we were right
There was never a need for "eventually." GG was always openly and loudly calling itself a Liberal movement, with most people writing screed after rant about how they were the True Left and how the Woke were just perverting "good" ideas.
KIA1 tried to ban any T_D poster because they were that afraid of the fact that Trump people might be in their midst. Shit last time I was there they were fellating that Narwhaltz tranny's every single post and word.
If the Woke had gone a little slower and less obvious, a solid 70% of the GG supporters would have followed them to the end and still be right there marching with them.
"Classical liberalism" is divided between those with genuine interest in 17th-early19th century republican (the way Europeans use that word) tradition, and those with a misplaced sentimental attachment to mid-to-late 20th century center-left societal tendencies. I almost don't blame the latter for their desperate behaviors, being the largest politically homeless grouping in current era.
I utterly forgot about first kia pre-emptively banning t_d posters. That's irritating because that subreddit winds up with so many lost morons posting typical internet noise, separate form the confused leftists described in this thread. It wasn't about quality control (old t_d was basically a parody of ordinary reddit) but optics.
By "classical liberal" they unfortunately seemed to all mean "Bush-Era Democrat." What they saw as Pre-Woke Leftism, with all the same policies and just less "crazy." Not even the "colorblindness" of the late 20th century, as shown by their rush to prop up every minority (race, gender, sexuality) to their talking heads and leadership, but the on the cusp of Intersectionality wokeness about how someone being a "gay Jew who loves blacks" somehow makes them super worth supporting.
The T_D ban gets forgotten a lot, probably because it got dropped after heavy, instant backlash. Which I'll give the userbase credit for, at the time they still had some free speech principle to them over their Leftism. Though if you said the meanie things about women or blacks of gays, then all that went out the window.
There were two distinct schools of thought among proponents of gamergate:
this psychotic woke tyranny is largely isolated to academia, and these kids are in for a very rude awakening when they collide with the real world outside of their university hugboxes
this psychotic woke tyranny is already making its way into the halls of power and could unilaterally dominate our culture, our industries, and our governments very soon
Looking back on it now, most of the people in the first camp developed terminal TDS and eventually outed themselves as crypto leftists. They refused to acknowledge that their side had been completely taken over by Marxism, and now they spend their days fighting the imagined fascism of MAGA white nationalism.
TLDR: fuck you lying classical liberal/libertarian retards, we were right
There was never a need for "eventually." GG was always openly and loudly calling itself a Liberal movement, with most people writing screed after rant about how they were the True Left and how the Woke were just perverting "good" ideas.
KIA1 tried to ban any T_D poster because they were that afraid of the fact that Trump people might be in their midst. Shit last time I was there they were fellating that Narwhaltz tranny's every single post and word.
If the Woke had gone a little slower and less obvious, a solid 70% of the GG supporters would have followed them to the end and still be right there marching with them.
"Classical liberalism" is divided between those with genuine interest in 17th-early19th century republican (the way Europeans use that word) tradition, and those with a misplaced sentimental attachment to mid-to-late 20th century center-left societal tendencies. I almost don't blame the latter for their desperate behaviors, being the largest politically homeless grouping in current era.
I utterly forgot about first kia pre-emptively banning t_d posters. That's irritating because that subreddit winds up with so many lost morons posting typical internet noise, separate form the confused leftists described in this thread. It wasn't about quality control (old t_d was basically a parody of ordinary reddit) but optics.
By "classical liberal" they unfortunately seemed to all mean "Bush-Era Democrat." What they saw as Pre-Woke Leftism, with all the same policies and just less "crazy." Not even the "colorblindness" of the late 20th century, as shown by their rush to prop up every minority (race, gender, sexuality) to their talking heads and leadership, but the on the cusp of Intersectionality wokeness about how someone being a "gay Jew who loves blacks" somehow makes them super worth supporting.
The T_D ban gets forgotten a lot, probably because it got dropped after heavy, instant backlash. Which I'll give the userbase credit for, at the time they still had some free speech principle to them over their Leftism. Though if you said the meanie things about women or blacks of gays, then all that went out the window.