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[โ€“] jaywalker@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even if GG isn't responsible, Bannon and others like him were absolutely trying to spread fascism through gamer outrage well before GG really started

[โ€“] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Bannon's goldfarming business on World of Warcraft, by his own admission, gave him many of his pre-a-little-trolling regime political front ideas: specifically, that freeze-gamer were a bunch of easily led, credulous assholes just waiting for something to rally behind.