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This sounds insane and yet it's pretty much what happened.

 If we're being extremely sober-minded about this, in a tight election there's always multiple causes and movements are caused by a complex interplay of factors etc etc.

But it's also true a far right tumor grew within gamer communities and metastasized.

https://t.co/8YunFDxnvY
To me the big mystery of 2016 is always going to be how did Trump, who has no redeeming characteristics, get a perfectly normal number of votes? Why did multiple parts of our political immune system fail? A large part is that the GOP qua Party was weaker than we thought.
Gamergate and its spawn did a couple things to the immune system. It directly stressed it by creating a dangerous identity in a way it turns out it could not handle, and it revealed flaws that other bad actors took advantage of.
If you time-traveled and you eliminated Eron Gjoni before he hit "publish" would Donald Trump still be elected in 2016? I honestly don't think so, because it was such a close election. But the dominoes would still be in a place for a different trigger that could have happened.
People have been attacking the media for a long time. Making the media into a vagina-haver and allies conspiracy out to destroy you for liking boobs was something of an innovation.

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Like you can describe that identity in a few different ways, all of which are terrible and reductive and yet true because the various gate movements and alt right identities are just various grievances that glommed together.
And to indulge in a little bothsideism, as a treat, attacking people for what they like is a very bad way of doing (left) politics and honestly everything else.
There are real stakes, even in the culture war but you really get the feeling it's just people being mean about what bands the other cliques are into.
This is very true and makes politicizing hobbies incredibly dangerous. On the other hand I'm increasingly convinced that we can't stop people from self-radicalizing themselves along their hobbies.

https://t.co/lRGsITiYwi
You can studiously make something as apolitical as possible and people will spontaneously see their own lives and politics, and say so online, and then other people will get mad at you for that. They will generate memes and multi-hour YouTube streams about your agenda.
I'm pretty sure people who spontaneously organize into communities dedicated around parasocial relationships with fictional personae are in fact exactly who runs politics.

https://t.co/9IR6G5JFbg
I only disagree with @aelkus's notion we ought to keep fandom-types away from politics insofar as ought implies can and I don't think we can.

Also I'm not sure fandom can be quarantined so much as it is spontaneously generated by a human mind given the right factors.
Humans evolved over millions of years to thrive in small communities surrounded by wilds and in a tiny fraction of that time we've started existing in massive communities surrounded by each other.

So everytime human sociality misfires I wonder if its just a firmware problem.
Like Marx, they were right about everything except for time, specifics, and causation.

https://t.co/pRWGT68BMn
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If 4% of voters shift its a damned landslide! In 2016 that's 5,466,771 people!
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This is true, but GamerGate turned out to have been a particularized phenomena that was different in kind. To extend the tumor analogy, gaming communities have had damage from a smoking habit forever, but GamerGate was a time it became cancer.

https://t.co/scr0hZlvx9
I think we need to spend a lot more time on why the publishing practices of people who write about video games is somehow the same thing as little-l-liberalism than on whether GamerGate correctly identified the former as a problem.

https://t.co/0E8JEXOBCJ
Even if we assume GamerGate's core complaint was ethics in gaming journalism and that they were correct, how does that justify being mean to even one (1) woman on the internet let alone the creation of an entire cottage industry of YouTube streamers.
For my sins, I just searched "Zoe Quinn" On YouTube and sorted by views. Do not recommend.
I play video games, I think video games are art, I do not think video games are so important to the firmament of our society it justifies or explains creating an identity over it.

It'd be like my HOA not following bylaws being a sign of fascism.

https://t.co/JYCGQuT26b
Nota bene: HOAs in general are fascism and I'm only mostly kidding.
Like the problem with the legitimate complaint framing is that it relieves the recruit of any responsibility to have perspective. You could describe the fictional character here as having legitimate complaints about his life in the same way.

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I just don't see a huge moral difference between the guy who goes Red Pill because his ex was a bitch to him that one time and someone who decides America should elect Trump just because GameInformer was too chummy with the AAA publishers.
I don't know if I'd call them bad, or evil or anything like that, but I do hold them responsible for their own choices.

As I've said elsewhere I was also a nerdy shut-in who read a lot of problematic shit and at no point did I join the alt right.

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I think all the suburbs around here have an HOA, but if we could just get rid of it I would in a heartbeat.

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