robotlyra

This is important content cuz it touches on one of the more overlooked aspects of the recent altright encroachment: a lot of it is about doing it “for the lulz”. Making traditionally marginalized groups angry or reactive is a form of entertainment for some, and the fact that happens to work towards reclaiming white male supremacy for them is more of a secondary bonus. That’s what makes it so difficult to logically or “correctly” combat it; the most forward face isn’t an ideology or philosophy, so to speak, but rather a form of indulgence. It’s not a grand mission, it’s a game they play.

  lady-feral

This is so fucking accurate.

  minopoke

There was an NPR segment on Bannon and how he noticed that angry gamers managed to get gaming companies to do what they want through mob anger - he managed an MMO gold farm that got shut down because of it. He essentially saw this force of angry nerds that had yet to be tapped and harnessed. And guess who was a huge part of GamerGate? Milo Yiannopolus of Breitbart. I highly recommend listening to the whole half an hour interview.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/18/537885042/inside-the-shakespearean-irony-of-trump-and-bannons-relationship

  fierceawakening

(to read later)