Thought of you guys when I saw this
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as an outsider looking back, Gamergate may have been the catalyst the west needed. it created a feedback loop that, in time, forced the various authoritarian groups to overextend, exposing themselves in ways that they wouldn't have otherwise dared to do until it was too late to stop them...
here's to you, gamergate. early soliders in a war, I wish I had been paying attention enough to have participated in at the time.
There is a common pretense that gamergate was made up of a bunch of apolitical or leftist manchildren. I remember a whole lot more right wing posters saying "I told you fucking idiots" than the "I would be a dem but" types want to acknowledge.
It's because the line used to be greyer, litteraly, remember the old Red Tribe Blue Tribe Gray Tribe thing?
My mom is a gen x but acts like a boomer, and I've had this conversation with her over and over and over. Her worldview is still built around liberal/conservative Peter pan and the Indians type shit, "when we win, they turn us loose, and when we win we turn them loose!"
She can't understand the anger because she wasn't Gray Tribe watching the promise of the future be throttled in its crip.
We as humanity were building a rocket with manifest destiny written on the side in gold leaf, and it was aimed and the motherfucking stars.
And it got torn down by mudlicking barbarians and fat greedy hedonist who couldn't stand the idea of greatness.
So yeah im fucking mad.