I think the gap between us is the experience with the RW twitter sphere. First of all, RW twitter is where all serious political business goes down up to the level of the president and vice president. This has been proven countless times over the last few years. It's also influential on everyone in the RW, including thinkers, artists, influencers, etc.

Everyone on the internet gets influenced by Twitter, and Nick constantly leverages his popularity.

Having established that, groypers are one of the most powerful forces in the RW. They aren't self-organizing. They function as a cohesive unit taking orders from Nick and his lieutenants, they don't think for themselves, and they back each other up no matter what. They don't discuss or reason anything. The only thing that matters is "does Nick agree with this" and everyone else gets ratioed. This is extremely irritating.

Now imagine a significant part of this mob is into pedophilia and constantly shoves that in your face. It's as if 50 posters here were clones of AbleistSL and constantly talk about raping lolicons while everyone who disagrees gets downvoted. And this took over several threads daily. And this forum was somehow politically influential.

Nick takes the blame for this and it speaks to the character of his "movement." The Ali stuff is a lot more important in the grand scheme of things, but this is the part that's shoved in my face every day, and I'm sick of it.

I think the gap between us is the experience with the RW twitter sphere. First of all, RW twitter is where all serious political business goes down up to the level of the president and vice president. This has been proven countless times over the last few years. It's also influential on everyone in the RW, including thinkers, artists, influencers, etc.

Everyone on the internet gets influenced by Twitter, and Nick constantly leverages his popularity.

Having established that, groypers are one of the most powerful forces in the RW. They aren't self-organizing. They function as a cohesive unit taking orders from Nick and his lieutenants, they don't think for themselves, and they back each other up no matter what. They don't discuss or reason anything. The only thing that matters is "does Nick agree with this" and everyone else gets ratioed. This is extremely irritating.

Now imagine a significant part of this mob is into pedophilia and constantly shoves that in your face. It's as if 50 posters here were clones of AbleistSL and constantly talk about raping lolicons while everyone who disagree gets downvoted. And this took over several threads daily. And this forum was somehow politically influential.

Nick takes the blame for this and it speaks to the character of his "movement." The Ali stuff is a lot more important in the grand scheme of things, but this is the part that's shoved in my face every day, and I'm sick of it.