Bear with me on this one, because the more I think about it the more the sperging from people like Matt Walsh about gamers makes sense. Gamers have always been under attack from both the left and the right, which is why I always reee so hard at them all. It's become really noticeable how not just TERFs but Thots are being courted by the right generally.
It seems they're being lured in by the promise of getting more of the female vote and because they assume that straight white men are going to automatically vote right wing anyway they've got no problem shitting on male gamers especially and shaming them. They've really been ramping up the pandering lately too and they're doing the typical right wing thing of going "No! We're more left wing than the left are! Vote for us women we respect the differences between the genders!" which is one of the main gripes both these demographics of women have amongst the left.
The TERFs have a fair amount of reach despite the left's attempts at cancelling them and Thots are often newly minted millionaires that made their cash from OF and if they even have half a brain they'll be investing in properties for that sweet sweet passive income they can live off for the rest of their lives. A lot of the mainstream right ( Yes in America as well ) seem to genuinely believe in the basement dwelling neckbeard stereotype and yes there are those about but I think they underestimate how many fairly ordinary people like to play video games and don't appreciate having their hobby shat on constantly.
Just watch, a new faction is forming of tradcucks, TERFs and Thots who are out to do some misogynist bashing against gamers. They want things to go back the way they were before the Trans movement happened and men started noticing all this behaviour. The left have always used GamerGate 'harassment' as a stick to beat gamers with and I think the right are going to concoct their own version now because they don't like gamers calling out Thots especially for being fake gamer grills among other things. It's going to be beautifully weird.
Oh that stereotype is absolutely real, just that it's mostly "m'lady" male feminists and troons.
Ehh... no. I don't see that as being the reasoning. Maybe if bigger fish from the conservative side had been actively trying to shit on gamers, but it was merely a handful of mildly popular commentators who were pulling it.
I could definitely see that as being a potential long-term strategy that conservatives might aim for, but as of yet I don't see a strong indication that they've made any serious investment or moves into this regard.
As for the left/Feds/DHS, they absolutely are targeting gamers, both because of Gamersgate and I think also because intelligence agencies see gaming as a fantastic opportunity for psychological, sociological, and behavioral analysis. Gamers also make for a convenient "boogieman", along with anything else they can bunch into the "evil far right" that no one else will stand up for or defend.
There's also of course the money side of things too.
I think occum's razor on this, the Thots are just rats fleeing a sinking ship and they're hoping that they can lean back on traditional 'be at home' housewives to avoid the coming collapse.
The attack on gamers from the right, well the conservative traditionalists, is simple too: they've never fully understood the culture. This is another time I can't tell if it's self sabotage on purpose as they're establishment shills or just to tunnel visioned that they throw away an opportunity to gain ground. It's why I like Trump, he approaches things like a business man and made more progress internationally doing so.
Dude, the words "trad" and "Matt Walsh" don't go in the same sentence unless you put "laughs at" in the middle.
No one who works for, or has worked for that little toad Shapiro can be described as "traditionalist.". Period. He and his are grifters, Vox Day dubbed them Cuckservatives. It doesn't really matter what you call them, they're fake right.
That's why tradcuck is the perfect term for them. They claim to be trad, but they're thinly disguised feminists playing controlled opposition. I don't always agree with actual trads but I don't question their honesty.
I agree but I feel like for a lot of high profile 'right wingers' there are quite a few more out there than the typical Conservative inc. types, Matt Walsh was admittedly a low hanging fruit example because he annoyed me.
If they're allowed on TV odds are they're fake right. The actual thinkers of the right have been effectively banished from discourse.
Walsh and his ilk are leftists. The fact that they're playing controlled opposition doesn't change that.
It's doomed to fail and drag us down. The right bashing nerds is a big reason why the left got so powerful in the first place. The trans surge in autistic men mainly comes from them not being able to match the ideal of traditional male models that conservatives expect. You can blame it on propaganda but truth is, they wouldn't latch on to it if they didn't rage quit trad life first.
Tradcucks are male breeders. They think the only value to life is to beget more life like a virus. Thus, things like video games which is something a person does outside of breeding and often does in lieu of breeding is "degenerate". Tradcucks are the ultimate goy slaves.
You're overthinking it. They're just simps who know that pretending to be right wing is a more effective way to push their feminist beliefs.
No, you're reducing what's going on to terms you like but it's too simple.
They are in fact simps that don't recognize they're simps and they think they're anti-feminists when they are in fact feminist. They're right-wing not because they are pretending or that they are doing it on purpose as a plot to push their feminist believe. They genuinely think they have right-wing beliefs and that they are fighting against "evil" while not being a simp or a feminist while they're actually fighting against good while being both a simp and a feminist.
In short, they're just another brand of useful idiots for the system pigs. They hate guys like antifa and yet they're just the other side of the same coin.