"Trump’s younger supporters know he’s an incompetent joke; in fact, that’s why they support him."This article was far more interesting than I initially thought it would be before I started reading it. Despite the headline, Trump isn't the main subject of the article. It's mostly about the history of 4chan and how it gave rise to Gamergate, which ( Read more... )

After trash-talking Irredeemably Toxic Shithole for at least the past two years now, a few of the whiny shitbags have finally started harassing me on Twitter over it. *eye roll* Half of me is vaguely annoyed by it, and half of me is idly wondering what took them so long. Either way, it doesn't matter at all. It just lets me put Twitter's Block ( Read more... )

Full headline, because it won't fit in LJ's subject line text box: "FBI's 'Gamergate' file says prosecutors declined to charge men believed to have sent death threats - even when they confessed on video"

Well crap, I thought I was done posting about goddamn GamerGate, but I guess I was wrong.

(Via tokoz via Facebook.)

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I agree that someone with a Youtube channel can say whatever the fuck they want. I also agree that if viewers want to then consider the guy to be a chode afterward and unsubscribe from his channel, that's all fine and great, too. If you watch Youtube, you risk running into someone who is going to spew horrendous bullshit that you don't agree with ( Read more... )

Actually, no, this article deserves its own separate post, rather than simply being added via a minor edit to the previous post.

Damn, but I really wish I'd seen this article back in September when it was first published.

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Link to previous, which has links to all the others before that. A few of these are less Trump-specific and more just generally politics-related.

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"The Online Abuse Playbook" https://t.co/AP63zShCoo This is absolutely a real thing. I've seen it happen time and again. (E.g. Gamergate.)
- Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) August 22, 2016

E.g., also, the overblown, overwrought negative response to James Rolfe's video from back in May about the nuBusters movie.
- Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) August 22, 2016

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*weary fucking sigh*

I'll be so fucking glad when this cultural phenomenon of "SJWs" vs Irredeemably Toxic Shithole-types finally runs its fucking course and goes away. Personally, if I had to pick a side, I would, of course, be more on the side of the "SJWs," because the Irredeemably Toxic Shithole-types are ever so much worse, but I still ( Read more... )

My feelings on nuBusters are that I'm swinging like a pendulum back and forth between the urge to not ever see the movie, based on the overwrought overreaction to James Rolfe's video from a couple months ago, and the urge to rush out and see it right now, based on archetypal GamerGate horseshit.And, to be clear, I fully recognize (and indeed have ( Read more... )