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[โ€“] jaywalker@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months 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 10 months 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.