So, totally fair to be scared of Nazis. Plenty of historical evidence that this is a good idea.
But, just saying, the Daily Stormer is currently committed to a propaganda war against... a mid-size games developer from the UK, over female generals in a historical game.
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It's pretty much PETA in weird uniforms and bad haircuts at this point.
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The heirs of Gamer*gate are concocting some fairly sophisticated nextgen fascist ideation.
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The local reaction it got in the forums for these games was a mix of ridicule and a few earnestly intense anarchists jumping in to yell at them.
A lot of people are wise to the tricks now. There are only so many times you can use the same post-ironic rhetoric & posturing.
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The developer in question also issued a PR statement telling them, quite politely, to fuck off. No change was made to the game in question.
I don't expect these tactics to pay off in the future, either. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems very, very ineffectual.
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The goal is not to get the developer to change. The goal is to develop an avant-garde, especially an "intellectual" one. The campaigns about particular games and developers are besides the point/staging grounds.
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I see the argument, I just don't think the avant-garde is a major threat. They have no new ideas as far as I can tell. Not much worthy of the name.
By contrast, I think the old connections between fascists, big money, politics & media are reaping the crops, e.g. here in Poland.
Point being: I think ridicule is a fine response for their piss-poor excuse for an online movement.
The fascists inveigling themselves into the mainstream will require worse, sure, but I don't think Twitter is the right platform for handling that problem.