Submitted by lumpentroll (not verified) on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:39
ziggles ... your impartiality on the topic is a nonstarter. the whole problem with half those gamer gate influenced basement dwellers (and other target demographics of the alt right) is that they were getting reactionary brain slugs implanted, while they insisted they were too smart to have partisan views.
when analysis is couched in a murky, cynical nihilism with no center and no coherent value system, these people are MORE susceptible to propaganda, not less. their self image tells them the opposite, that they're just laughing at everyone with their edgy snark or whatever but there's nothing to guard against their feelings of alienation being manipulated.
the older version of this insight goes "when you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
ziggles ... your impartiality on the topic is a nonstarter. the whole problem with half those gamer gate influenced basement dwellers (and other target demographics of the alt right) is that they were getting reactionary brain slugs implanted, while they insisted they were too smart to have partisan views.
when analysis is couched in a murky, cynical nihilism with no center and no coherent value system, these people are MORE susceptible to propaganda, not less. their self image tells them the opposite, that they're just laughing at everyone with their edgy snark or whatever but there's nothing to guard against their feelings of alienation being manipulated.
the older version of this insight goes "when you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."