It's crazy to think GamerGate has lead to Trump, MAGA, & the Redpill community

[O.Red]

I think its the other way around

trump and the ’proud boy’ culture is what seeping into gaming discourse

Nah op is spittin

I don't even know everything about gamergate, but I know it was the vessel for a huge culture shift

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

When them cacs start popping off the Xbox game chat steez, you hit them up with reverse astrophysics

The moment they spew crazy Trump red pill babble, you hit them with the

"so you putting the house up to get that new 5090 since Trump using tariffs"

Don't get angry, let them figure out their fukk ups.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Gamergate wasn't the beginning of anything. Redpill latched on to Gamergate as a beachhead issue and leeched everything they could out of it, like any other subversive movement trying to make a name for itself. Redpill itself is fabricated garbage. It's just a feeder program like many others.

Do you think the FBA/ADOS movement is a feeder movement?

 

[Kooley_High]

This one instance of basement dwellers somehow became big enough that it went past the typical internet message board bs, and got picked up by the mainstream. The national news took notice, governments took notice, the law took notice and it brought about shame to these geeks at a level they probably never thought would happen.

In response, they dug further into their online enclaves and created a pat on the back community built around their anger towards women and Black people not constantly being just their sidekicks. You throw in Russian & Conservative money catching wind early on and building it up and the following years of grifters coming in and amplifying it....you get what we have today.

I really dont think this is an accurate path to where we are today tbh.

 

[Damnshow]

White anger is everywhere - from shyt like gamers to rich muthafukkas who never seen poverty in their life. White anger is trying to destroy entire world. If America collapses, so will the west. And russia with china will end up like soviets and nazis when they agreed to attack Europe but shortly did it take for them to fight each other as well.

fukk all these white trash neckbeards, karens, spics and c00ns.

 

[Black Hans]

One woman running her mouth trying to lecture gamers on how they should socialize led to all that? Nah. All those sets existed by another name well before GamerGate.

 

[Damnshow]

At the end of the day.

fukk any bigsby buckbroke c00n.



fukk y'all.


Art Barr

History repeats itself. We are entering 1930s:

When there was the great depression between ww1 and ww2 all over the world, the radical powers found their way into government via rage of the dumb masses. They wanted something driven completely by anger. fukked around and found out with millions of casualties in a very short period of time.

All these idiots better hope trump doesn't get anywhere near the nuclear button. When shyt leaders don't get along with each other, there are no limits to what could happen.

 

[voltronblack]

Trump's Proposed Tariffs Will Hit Gamers Hard

A study found that the cost of consoles, monitors, and other gaming goods might jump during Trump's presidency.

gizmodo.com

Donald Trump has won the presidency and, if he actually goes through with some of his policy proposals, the consequences for gamers will be stark. One of the reasons electronics are so cheap in America is its robust trade relationship with China.

During the campaign, Trump said he’d impose a baseline 60% tariff on Chinese exports. If he does that, the price of all the stuff gamers love is going to go up. Laptop prices could spike by almost 50%. The cost of video game consoles could rise around 40%, making the upcoming PS5 Pro cost almost $1,000. The Switch 2 may be backward compatible, but it may cost quite a bit more than the original.

Trump campaigned on punishing China for a perceived trade imbalance with the United States. It was a winning issue for him in his original campaign, and one he acted on, and he spent time on the campaign trail saying he’d do it again. Trump’s broad plan is to encourage a return of U.S. manufacturing through restrictive tariffs. A tariff is a flat tax on a trade good. Trump’s two big proposals are a 10% to 20% import tariff on all goods from other countries and a 60% tariff on goods from China.

China does not pay the cost of those tariffs. The companies importing the goods from China do. Companies have been clear that if tariffs raise their cost of doing business, they’re going to pass the costs onto the consumer. “If we get tariffs, we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer,” AutoZone CEO Philip Daniele said on an earnings call in September.

The Consumer Technology Association, the trade association behind CES, published a study in October that looked at the possible effects of a 60% tariff on consumer electronics. It’s important to keep in mind that the study was commissioned by a trade group that stands to lose an enormous amount of cash should the tariff go through on electronics. That said, it’s still a strong indicator of where the industry’s head is at and what it believes would be a worst-case scenario when Trump takes office.

The study looked at ten different consumer tech products: smartphones, laptops, connected devices, video game consoles, and various computer accessories. According to the study, a tariff on electronics from China would have the immediate effect of spiking prices and the long-term effect of driving manufacturing to other countries. Critically though, those other countries would not be the United States. It’s still too expensive to make stuff in America and keep costs down.

“Across the board, the tariffs will cause significant price increases for the U.S. consumer,” the study said. The CTA estimated that laptop and tablet costs would go up 46%, smartphones would go up 26%, and video game consoles would spike 40%. That kind of increase would put the cost of the forthcoming PS5 Pro at just under $1,000. A top-of-the-line GPU, the kind used for AI and gaming, could bloat from around $900 to $1,300. The price of monitors would go up $109, desktops would go up around $74 overall, and headphones could cost an extra $35.

CTA VP of International Trade, Ed Brzytwa, stressed the damage tariffs would have on consumers in an interview with Tom’s Hardware. “Tariffs are regressive taxes that Americans pay. They’re not paid by a foreign government,” Brzytwa said. “They’re taxes that importers in the United States pay and foreign governments and foreign countries do not pay those tariffs. So when I say they’re regressive, it means that they harm poor people and people of little means more than they harm wealthy people.”

Trump’s tariff promise is probably one he’ll keep. During his first term, he imposed tariffs as high as 50% on the country, but tech industry lobbyists successfully carved out an exemption for electronics. It’s impossible to know if they’ll be able to pull off the same feat this time around.

If you were planning on upgrading your PC, building one from scratch or even buying a console, it might be wise to pull the trigger on it before Trump is inaugurated on January 20, 2025. The price after might skyrocket.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Redpill predates gamergate, it was in mgtow circles during that time. But it always existed in gaming spaces before gamergate. Just look at the early reactions to San Andreas and COD lobbies. It only gotten louder once Anita Sarkeesian dropped her Feminist Frequency series.

Yeah these feminists ain't shyt either.

 

[FlyRy]

America is exhausting

 

[MrLogic]

I think its the other way around

trump and the ’proud boy’ culture is what seeping into gaming discourse

Yeah they just used gamergate to do it

when I started seeing "christian white male" during video game discussion
I knew what time it was.

because back then gaming/nerd culture was a thing Christians always went against the whole satanic panic bs.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Redpill predates gamergate, it was in mgtow circles during that time. But it always existed in gaming spaces before gamergate. Just look at the early reactions to San Andreas and COD lobbies. It only gotten louder once Anita Sarkeesian dropped her Feminist Frequency series.

Yeah but gamergate is the catalyst that mobilized them

 

[Canon]

hope it destroys these racist pockets

 

[feelosofer]

Yea there has always been this fringe element in gaming circles that was right leaning and it has been that way for way longer than you think. It's just that Donald Trump, Elon Musk etc gave them public figures to latch onto and gave them a safe path to come to the light.

 

[6CertsAndAMovie]

scalia was major catalyst for this back in the day

he was a far right supreme court judge who wrote the opinion on several gamer affirming decisions (banning restrictions on some beloved cac games like GTA , COD) and affirming video games as an art form

so gamers kinda of fell into backing the right wing decision making behind them.

I wanted the dems to counter because the FTC chairwoman had implemented/done

1. right to repair, allowing gamers to fix their consoles easier
2. recovered 245 million dollars for games who used EPIC (fortnite) services and got tricked into paying for things. through refunds

the dems could have absolutely promised copyright takedown protection for youtubers. archival rights for older games and
emulators protection. and start culturally targeting gamers.