tl;dr lays out gamergate 2: Marxist Boogaloo
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18 minutes, so needs a tl;dr (Ironic, isn't it?)
I'm still against the whole idea of this being labelled GamerGate 2.0 as it is still the first and only GamerGate.
I'm not the one to summarise it but I can say that Mundane Matt isn't anything to do with the events of ten years ago other than talking about what other people were doing and then collecting boulders.
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Watched the whole thing and it's a reasonably decent watch (Listen) which covers the basics of what the fights was, and what it is now. I still don't get the Matt Jarbo reference, it must be a joke I'm not in on. tl;dr also doesn't think that this is GamerGate 2.0 but a continuance of the original.
Now wait a minutr Matt, NO! Matt, no.
to be fair, teel probably found out about it after banhammer matt brought it to a wider audience, lol
summary plz
GamerGate never ended so this isn't actually GamerGate 2.
pretty much what u/MararineMongoose said, lol
I take issue with his demoralizing tone of "you won't do anything," which is a comment I see so often on news clips. If ever there was something I would consider 'fedposting,' that would be it. It sounds like the taunting of a bully; "what are you gonna do about it, bitch?" It's the same as "voting doesn't work," too. It got us Trump before, they just had to cheat massively to override the will of the country the second time. It's a psyop technique.
Both of these phrases are designed to make me feel powerless and incapable of effecting change in opposition to some force that considers itself above me. I patently refuse to use them or accept them, and consider anyone using them as a black-pilling loser working to suppress me.
TealDeer says that the original Gamergate "lost," but also says that it never ended? He says it accomplished nothing, but what about the social and political awakening of an entire generation of otherwise politically indifferent people? He sounds like he expected us to overthrow the entirety of journalism or stop this world-spanning monster in its tracks. His video is a commentary, but offers no instructions or solutions outside of the "something has to be done, we need to organize better" that I have also been hearing for over a decade now.
I think the value of what he's saying is just lost on me because it doesn't sound new or innovative with regard to the Progressive takeover.
I've actually been thinking about this a lot the last few weeks, and while I certainly understand where this perspective comes from, I do wonder if it's the wrong approach...
To use a handy metaphor, if we think of politics like warfare, the Left is like a heavily drilled standing army, capable of taking the battlefield against almost any equal (or maybe even greater ) conventional force.
Meanwhile, the right is more like a guerilla force, independently using gorilla tactics to hit and run the enemy, slowly chipping away at their superior numbers (memes are a great example of this).
From the above proposed perspective, telling these disorganized militiamen to stand and fight the traditional way may as well be telling them to "stand here and lose" when their own guerilla tactics are doing ten times the work of what a conventional force could muster.
but hell, what do I know? maybe it's better to organize
I know it's from a moooovie, but it's a line that has always stayed in my mind; in The Patriot, the British complain that the Americans are not using standard and approved battle tactics of standing in lines and firing at each other, but are instead adopting the techniques of the Indians and attacking at random, viciously, and then running away before a proper defense can be mounted. Your mention of guerilla warfare reminded me of it.
The Left can't defend against a million of us all doing things at random, they simply lack the ability to whack-a-mole us effectively. Singular leaders or groups can be infiltrated, subverted, silenced, banned, or removed. Random nobodies like Kabrutus with his "SBI Detected" group scare them because they can't stop him in the conventional methods they use to eliminate opposition.
However, the country is far too large to be run on a disorganized mass, and the Left could likely recruit faster than it would lose members so it's not enough in the long run to simply try the death-by-a-thousand-cuts route. This is at best a stalling tactic, not a winning strategy, but memeing on thin-skinned Progressives is one of my few remaining joys.
Further in-depth review is certainly required.