2y ago

Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate

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The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.

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2y ago

Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate

www.vice.com /en/article/xgwmdz/paul-pelosi-attacker-gamergate

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“The takeaway I got is that she wants to turn our schools into pedophile molestation factories,” DePape testified
Honest question: what does "pedophile molestation factory" even mean?!
- It means "scary thing that must be defeated," because that's all the people throwing those words around want you to take away from it.
  It's a magical cocktail of words designed to evoke emotions and stifle higher brain functions like reason.
  
  If your reason for committing a crime is because of a conspiracy theory you should get an extra harsh sentence because you are an exceptional menace to society.
- It's a synonym for "catholic churches"
- You gotta get with the times. This should be a modern company. Remove the E: Groomr
I watched whatever Gamergate was erupt on that other site.
I still have no idea what Gamergate is or was. At the time I had no idea what was satire, what was real, what was under Poes law.
I know it happened. I know I was present for it. I do not understand it.
- Misgony.
  From a high level.
  Woman creates a video game about her personal struggles with depression.
  Got favorable reviews, some from notable game reviewers.
  Ex-boyfriend of woman posts a blog post and releases cherry picked chat logs alleging notable reviewer gave her a positive review due to sexual favors/relationship between the woman and reviewer.
  Notable reviewer never reviewed her game.
  Toxic gamer boys got in a huff that a woman was promoted due to sexual favors. They cried "ethics in video game reviews" together.
  Toxicness spreads to other women in the video game industry because of the misgony.
  Gamergate being full of easily manipulated individuals that don't feel like they belong or are heard are now organized.
  Group is infiltrated by people that have a malicious intent to incite and recruit for far right extremeist movements.
  The details are interesting, but in the end it's drama caused by frail male egos that led to a ton of misgony.
  
  Of note here is Steve Bannon, who owned several WOW gold farming operations at one point, specifically targeted gamergate as a recruitment arm for the alt right.
  Gamergate was used directly by the Trump campaign to unify disenfranchised young men to vote for Trump. The numbers were so close in the 3 swing states when he won in 2016, a total of only 40k votes, you can say quite honestly that it won him that election.
  
  I missed this entire thing unfold.
It's about ethics in gaming journalism! And attacking geriatrics with a hammer apparently.
I don't give a fuck if it was Obama, Trump, or the Buddha himself.
You don't hit someone -with a hammer.- /strikethrough
- I actually think that if your reason is "I believed an idiotic conspiracy theory", you should get an extra harsh sentence because that makes you an exceptionally dangerous menace to society.
  
  Nah, this is awareness leading to redemption. It deserves to be rewarded.
Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was ~~Radicalized~~ Extremified by Gamergate
Fixed that for them. Despite liberal media's pretensions, the term radical actually has a meaning - and a very good one at that.
- Radicalized
  (v) to make radical especially in politics
  radical actually has a meaning
  Radical (adj)
  advocating extreme measures to retain or restore a political state of affairs
  Yep, it has a definite meaning and that meaning definitely applies here as I think anyone would class attacking someone with a hammer as extreme measures.
  
  it has a definite meaning
  Yes it has, and you don't have it.
  The term radical (in a political context) has always implied "change at the root." That is what the Latin word rādīcālis (“of or pertaining to the root, having roots, radical”).
  It is utterly impossible for a "radical" right-wing ideology to exist, as the sole purpose of right-wing ideology is to prevent change - that is why right-wing ideology is referred to as reactionary... essentially, anti-radical.
  So, no... the liberal media is perpetrating misinformation when it uses the terms "radical" and "radicalized" in this inaccurate way - and so are you.

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