xparasite9 Wrote:Is the cinemassacre Ghostbusters controversy relevant to gamergate?
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First off, I didn't know there was an imgspoiler tag, so I learned something today. On topic though, it is the same group of people that is infesting every outlet of media, academia, and any other key location that can be used to spread a word with relatively little effort to tons of people that can be considered to have malleable minds that are easily tricked, who are also dumb enough to defend their incorrect opinions to the death so they don't have to acknowledge the fact that they are incorrect. It is relevant in that way.
At this point I doubt very many of the original instigators are even still doing anything, they are just watching the people they influenced spout their lies as law and, because they are flowery words promising a comfortable space where stress is not an issue and nobody will judge you for anything, people (or in this case, children, for the most part) are eating it up, because they haven't yet learned how to cope with things like stress and are just hitting the point when school is becoming stressful. So, instead of learning to deal with it, they decide to create a space where they never HAVE to deal with it (at least until they get destroyed out in the real world, but hey, that's years away!). Gamegate was targeting a very small subsect of this originally, but because of the way the groupthink is designed, it became much bigger because all of their friends in other areas of the "movement" jumped in to save them from the pressures of real life, just as they would expect in return. It's entirely possible that the events leading to Gawker getting destroyed in court by Hulk Hogan would never have occurred; while Gamergate had nothing to do with that once it reached that point, it -did- poke the beehive enough that they were angry and willing to do anything regardless of the consequences to get more views. That was undeniably the biggest hit to the entire SJW movement in years, maybe even the biggest hit they have ever taken, and over the past couple years they had already been taking a series of smaller hits over and over again. If the pressure is kept up on them, it's entirely feasible that their movement can be fragmented to such an extent that it is no longer a threat to society, so long as it continues to be monitored so they can't reform. The most important place by far that they need to be taken out is still getting bigger though, unfortunately, which is academia; it doesn't matter if all of the outlets are destroyed if the "factory" remains active.
At this point, based on ages and political affiliations, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Bernie was one of those original instigators, but seeing as it stemmed almost exclusively from academia at the very beginning, that probably is not the case. I know he would have supported it, at least, because he has the same mentality of "the world should be a great place to live in even if you put in no effort", which is fundamentally incorrect and is the doctrine they all follow; if you don't put in effort and further society, you are essentially worthless as a human being and should not be supported. I am worthless and I know it, others who do nothing need to learn to accept that fact as well instead of burying themselves in a hugbox and blaming the rest of the world for our own incompetence.
On the topic of Hogan, apparently he has financial support of a certain billionaire that Gawker tried to out publicly a few years ago; Peter Thiel just announced he has been backing Hogan financially for a while now. They literally cannot catch a single break and it's pineappleing hilarious. Karma is a real peach.