@matrix gg ruined imageboards and social media and vidya and pretty much everything

@wowaname I think the reaction to gg is what did that though

@matrix ya i just like poking fun at it because i was never directly involved nor did i want to be
@matrix @wowaname There's nothing wrong with asking """journalists""" not to be cunts.
@matrix @wowaname The problem with GG was that they started a war with the institute of journalism which led to regular news journalists adopting the tactics of games journalists, i.e. cry harassment when criticised. Now we have comments sections removed from most news sites and rampant tech censorship that promotes journalists who lie (authoritative sources) and stifles those who don't. You can easily go from GG to the Alt Right to Trump to Fascism, but not in the way Leftists would have you believe.
@SADIDAS @matrix @wowaname i thought you ended up in fascism because everyone and their dog calls you a fascist if you aren't down with their all-or-nothing politics
@icedquinn @matrix @wowaname The people who accuse people of being fascists are themselves the fascists. Politicians, big tech CEO's, journalists, ANTIFA, they all project their fascistic intentions onto everyone else.
@icedquinn @SADIDAS @matrix @wowaname Yes, but no; The actual fascist regime (or the amateur attempt at it to jumpstart the technocracy™) is the one the Anglosaxon establishment has set up last winter. What they call fascist is a lose coalition of conservatives, lolberts, religious people, Anons and Plebbitors reacting against woke bullshit.

Now that the last figurehead is gone, there is almost nothing to unite them anymore while the populist revolt that started without that goofy event anyway simply still continues. The lolbert hastag is just a scapegoat for everything that went wrong during Occupy Wallstreet. This was the point when culture creators couldn't cram identiy politics down everybodies' throat quickly enough.
This points to another problem with this event: Remember how everyone who got fat on it folded, a certain cripple included? Many people only know extreme politics thanks to the best efforts of fluorescent-American community.

I don't have anything concrete and honestly I can't be arsed to make to check this all. Last time I have poured any effort into that issue I got jack shit from the community on which behalf I have done it. The working theory™ goes like this:

Back around the ass end of occupy Wallstreet the internet got tremendously full of shills making propaganda for radical politics. For what purpose? To divide the populace so much, that it can't form another movement like Occupy Wallstreet again of course. One of the targets was apparently also 4chan /new/ and then /pol/ according to a Libertarian politics board that talked about a Stormfront subcommunity called swarmfront that was going around the internet trying to recruit more and more people. This led to 4chon becoming more radical what has it to do with GG? I mentionet a certain cripple. Did you know that the creator of tinyboard and former admin of 4chon offered that very guy money for shutting down his website and stop development of a new software for it? He also sang the very same song the cripple is singing on bird site right now there is hardly any politics image board left outside of halfchan. Yet the extreme ideologies still remain.

Which reminds me of the last drama involving one that got full so radical to the point, that even the infamously patient admin of the 8ch clone hosting it lost patience and told them to fuck off and so did its instance of the weapons board.

tl;dr
Feds have radicalized Imageboards to complete the false dialectics against the likes of tumblr to gain control over the Internet because Occupy Wallstreet came out of it.
@maxmustermann @icedquinn @matrix @wowaname I get where you're coming from but I'd argue that Conservatives, Christians and The Right in general have never had less of a presence in culture than right now. I keep hearing this meme repeated endlessly about Zoomers being "based" but I'm just not seeing it. There may very well be a group of loosely affiliated people on the right who unironically call themselves Fascists and push a Fascistic agenda, but what I see when I look around is tech oligarchs deciding what can and can't be discussed online, journalists dictating what is and isn't true and elected officials calling for their political opponents to be harmed. To me that's Fascism and what concerns me is that the people doing these things actually have power.

Maybe the real threat here is the powergrab that's occurring between two sides both of which seem to want Fascism - there's one side that already has power and wants to use its authority to crush its opponents, then there's the other side which is currently being victimised but is quietly growing in numbers and is both armed and angry. I know we kinda went off the topic of GG here but there's definitely troubling times ahead I reckon.
@SADIDAS @maxmustermann @matrix @wowaname this is kinda why i stopped being a libertarian. the left burns down cities, the right goes home when someone shakes a stick at them. absolute weakness.
@SADIDAS @matrix @maxmustermann @wowaname

the left organizes massive boycots, twitter shitstorms, cancel cutlure.

the right keeps using fuckin' facebook, spreads veritas videos about how facebook is a spook, and bruh imma keep usin facebook to fight the system!

the left burns down city blocks and lasers cops in the eyes, get bailed out, "mostly peaceful,"

the right is like "we wanna keep our businesses open!" and the cops are like "sorry goy" and they all go home (and post on facebook.)

some cop fumbles and cities burn, but the constitution gets eaten for breakfast and the right sits on their god damn ass opining about SOMEDAY

@SADIDAS @matrix @maxmustermann @wowaname i mean it’s not even strictly about the violence. they could have peaceful sit-ins where they all flood the governors mansion and sit on the lawn and refuse to leave. but the right does absolutely fucking nothing. like they think following rules made by sociopaths will help.

@icedquinn @SADIDAS @matrix @maxmustermann @wowaname

The problem is that being right wing, and you will be prosecuted with the full extent of the law. There's no bail fund set up by right wing politicians. There's Proud Boys in prison right now for what was clearly self defense in New York
@icedquinn @matrix @maxmustermann @wowaname I don't blame the right for being blackpilled, whenever they try to organise in public ANTIFA turn up with the media coincidentally in tow hoping to film some tasty "right wing violence". Even if there's no trouble the media just don't bother to cover it so the wider population never know the event even occurred.
@SADIDAS @matrix @maxmustermann @wowaname we used to be a country where civilians would breach FBI field offices and steal evidence of government crimes :cirno_shrug:
@SADIDAS @matrix @maxmustermann @wowaname well. the left always did those things. the right just sits in church and mopes. is why they always fucking lose.
@wowaname @matrix vidya was already ruined, GG was the reaction to the ruination. social media was never good. chanology ruined imageboards long before GG. although not nearly as much as the gayops of the 2016 electon ruined them.
@rasterman @matrix @wowaname what's more amazing is the date. Was he in a coma for the last three months? Is he still worried about insurrectionists?
@apropos @matrix @wowaname He's a calculating man, you see. He had to really analyse the situation and plan his next step. Last time Jarbo jumped into something without thinking it through, he ended up showing his flagging history to a room full of hostiles. That was lame Matt. This is Sun Tzu Matt.
@matrix @galena Ohhhh I bet he can go even lower. But all in all, at least now he is finally being true to himself about his progressive leanings.
@matrix All admit that most of my knowledge of him comes from Metokur, Dame Pesos, and MC Jarbo, but this doesn't even seem especially low for him.

@matrix @galena GG is literally the only reason his youtube 'career' ever went anywhere. He's only famous for that and embarrassing himself on a livestream 3 years ago.

@PixelBillion @matrix @galena Jarbo has always been like that. A fat wuss who didn't stand for anything and tried to take over the entire event. GG wasn't mistake. Attempting to disengage as soon the hipster gaming was stomped into a pancake was. As one of the results in gaming we got exceptinal stuff inside the midmarket without the noise from the likes of TIGG.
@matrix Well Matt Jarbo was a mistake, and since GG was the only reason people watched him, maybe there's some truth to it.
@matrix @ChristiJunior check this out, I bet it's gonna be insightful and interesting.
@ChristiJunior @matrix oh thats who he was, the name seemed familiar but couldn't remember what it was linked to

@matrix
It is amazing just HOW MUCH did he manage to miss the point...

He lives in it, yet still he does not even get the basics.

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