It's a straight line. I cannot explain the levels of unspeakable rage I have for everyone who didn't take what was happening seriously and how it fueled so much of what is happening now.https://twitter.com/bazooie/status/1348933230469107714 …
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
I looked at more that both are just symptoms of the evolution of modern western online culture as we fumble to understand how to graft our societal cues and behaviours onto an ingroup of tens of thousands.
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Replying to @GrumpyOpinions @FilmCritHULK
The idea that Gamergate "started" anything is kind of baffling to me. It's like running a car for 10 years in the desert without ever adding oil or doing maintenance and then saying the first blown gasket was what started it breaking down.
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Replying to @GrumpyOpinions @FilmCritHULK
The blown gasket was the first symptom of the myriad of fuck-ups and enviromental pressures that was wrecking your car. Similarly, I think Gamergate was just a confluence of issues boiling into a perfect storm at exactly the same time That we've seen it all again isn't down to GG
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Replying to @GrumpyOpinions
ok grumpy, this does nothing. The point of talking about gamergate is that it represents the spark of the moment that milo, emboldened by bannon's financial support, unified the toxicity of gamers to go from trolls to join the far right
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @GrumpyOpinions
so let's spare the "oh it's part of a 1000 year history" or whatever the hell and recognize the inherent turning point of that moment, which i wrote about length as it was happening. I have no time for letting it all shrug right now.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
It's not about letting it all shrug. I'm saying that this reframing of the idea of Gamergate as this root cause of everything is nonsense. It's like saying that Patient Zero was the cause of Typhoid or whatever, the cart before the horse.
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You are so completely missing the point. And literally well actuallying that point. Stop it and move on.
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