>>714219189The truth is that Gamergate is just the point at which the sides actually crystalized following the cultural shaping efforts that were undertaken to protect the US government and Financial industry in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. It took a few years to go into effect. Occupy was the first step. Gamergate was the first pushback, which came from a direction they hadn't even accounted for. Everything's only downstream of Gamergate in the sense that it's all downstream of Occupy, which is only in the sense that it's all ultimately downstream from the deliberate imposition of The Progressive Stack for businesses to have something they considered harmless to pay lip service to instead of actually fixing the fucking problems and building a healthy economy.
Our world was taken away from us because JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, BNY Mellon and Bank of America all thought they could make good little consumers out of paranoid schizophrenics whose only purpose in life is to nitpick absolutely everything that already exists so they can remake it in their own image.
All they had to do was stop offering subprime loans and running retarded pump and dump schemes, and accept that they made a fucky-wucky in 2008, and make up for it. But instead, they let The Thing off of the leash, and it's consuming absolutely fucking everything, and it might be too late for them to pivot back.