What Elon Musk’s war on federal workers owes to Gamergate

One of the most interesting billionaire aspects Elon MuskThe illegitimate argument through the federal government is how stupid is. Certainly the most important issue is that it is reckless and evil. Under the misplaced “competence”, it cuts the workers randomly and targets entire departments that have power His work accountable for penetration of the law. But Sadia is accompanied by the joy of Trolis, who reads more like the boy’s 13 -year -old attempts to humor more than a 53 -year -old businessman and father for 12 years. The initiative is the part of government competence, mostly so that it can be shortened to “Doug”, ” Mimi is ridiculous 12 years ago It turned into Musk’s favorite encrypted currency. Tweets around Dog Duns, holding it It lies in self -service and conspiracy theories with credibility so that it can only be deliberate. It does this under the profile names such as “Harry Bōlz” – and we are all a little stupid to read it.

The fascists have always been clowned, but he was innovated in the twenty -first century, and they were very proud of their events. Unfortunately, many online press have witnessed that this has been coming for a decade, with the emergence of the most social movement in America, and perhaps the world: Gamergate. For those who realize this date happily, Gamergate was the first major harassment campaign for the guidelines From the era of social media. On its surface, it was mostly a group of young players who had anger for a year because they did not want women to women in their video games. But for those of us who watched it closely at that time, It was a disturbing position when it turned To be a complete fascist movement.

Dog owes everything to Gamergate, from her aesthetics to her tactics to her working power, which depends largely on the same young people-now they are 10 years old-who ranged between the extreme right through social media. Journalist Max Reed recently indicated, Musk project is not like “Gamergate”, but “directly is Gamergate, and it consists of exactly many of the same people” reformulating the same unjustified grievances. Literally, between attacking federal workers as “parasites”, MUSK and Fanboys also possesses that video games “wake up” and this justifies fascism.

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But what DOGE owes to Gamergate becomes much deeper than those who suffer from development. Advertising tactics and strategic consistency of DOGE comes directly from that year from Gamergater devices that sharpen their technologies through a sustainable harassing campaign – and are still stupid – against feminists online.

The first lesson of Gamergate was the value of propaganda for bad faith, which is enhanced by endless repetition. The motive behind the defenses was primarily through two complaints: that feminists were criticizing sexual discrimination in video games, decisively, it seems that these feminists did not have sex more than Muslims. This is not an exaggeration. The entire campaign started for the first time as a harassment targeted for females (Now not dual) The video game developer whose former bitter friend played the mob against her telling them that she had sex with many men. Soon it spread to target other fragile feminists, especially those who criticized video games, but the basis for sexual jealousy was always present.

Gamergaters quickly realize that strangers will not be sympathetic to their real complaints, which were, “How dare women who are going through sex more than made me feel bad about sexual video games?” Instead, they invented asking that female gaming developers were exchanging sex with male journalists for good reviews. This was not true, but “ethics in journalism” was credible enough to deceive the naive journalists in writing Gamerger’s stories in a more sympathetic sympathy for the charming chase of women.

Musk and Doge-BROS uses the same tactic now with wrong allegations that their goal is to “save money”. This is ridiculous for anyone looking at a millimeter below the surface, and Not only because the distributed “savings” are lies. Musk decisions are not informed of research and analysis. They are revenge, irregular, and They are fed up with explicit lies and racist grievances. Whatever “targeting” is happening It is guided by the desire of musk in the knee of agencies That threatens to expose his corruption. But the parrot -like repetition about “saving money” causes the press to amplify the main headlines that fully describe Doug as an effort to “reduce costs”. The text of these articles often discover the point of talk by noting that Musk numbers are formed, but most people do not read the articles. All they get is a mysterious feeling that this is an effort to “reduce costs” and do not realize that it is in reality, it is a fascist cultural war that wears “efficiency” fashion.

Doug does not need to understand not only because the small group of people trying to destroy the federal government from within, but as a larger social movement that lives primarily on X (previously Twitter) and is driven by the MUSK character. The Sea of ​​donkeys, which screams at the heads of federal workers on the total X, but generates energy and feeling the momentum necessary for musk activities. The bustle is especially useful in silencing Republicans in Congress who may object to the economic threat of mass shootings in their societies.

The recruitment strategy to build this crowd comes directly from Gamergate: A call to people by luring their insecurity on your scapegoat. With Gamergate, young people were encouraged to redirect their sexual frustrations and social anxiety away from useful projects such as self -improvement and hate without stopping in a group of women who have turned into symbols of everything that Gamergater fears from their lack of: fulfillment of jobs, active sexual life and cold hair shaving.

The same happens with Dog, except for a scapegoat that is no longer “young women” (although Dog Bruce hates them as well), but federal workers. Psychological projection of their faults and insecurity on these anonymous workers is not hidden. The accusations that federal workers of the middle class are “parasites”, “fraud” and “thieves” that seem very rich in people who seem to have nothing to do throughout the day but they scream on the Internet and who are often in an encrypted depth, a. The market that appears only for crime and gambling misleading. As Red said, many people participating in Dog were recruited on the extreme right during Gamergate. It is logical that the psyche of the losers in the twenties of life that was aimed at the kind girls has now turned their goal. Now they hate people who are a successful middle -aged age from a stable job that means something for the world.

The charming hunting is not a new thing, but one of the methods that were created in Gamergate is through abuse and harassment. Gamergaters behaved as if they were all playing a big video game, but instead of killing zombies or spites, the goals were real people. The discourse and logic of the video games were all over Gamergate, except for Big Boss’s monster in a castle, a woman in the world was hoping to break her mentally through continuous harassment. This position allowed gunmen to create an ethical distance from their actions. By pretending to be just a game, they can avoid dealing with the fact that they were doing real harm to real people.

Because of Gamergate, the right online refers to Anyone opposes Donald Trump’s agenda as “NPC”, ” It is the term “non -player character”, such as zombies or spite you are fighting, or if you play Mario, the mushroom you crush. As the Yemenis explained in the forums, they believe that Trump’s opposition means by its nature that the person “cannot do or think alone”, and that they only hate Trump because this is what they are required to think. It goes without saying that stripping people of this is a standard tactic to justify abuse, harassment and even violence. Musk is a big fan of calling anyone who does not agree to With “NPC”, as in 2022, when the opponents of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were mocked with insult.

Paul and Damman also wrote in his news message last weekThis logic allows musk to tell himself and his followers that “the suffering that reduces it on NPCs is meaningless, because our lives are meaningless.” R. ”

Musk’s position was fully displayed on Thursday at the Conservative Political Labor Conference (CPAC). He did the saw, This type of idiot weapon that you may see in a video game, but real people destroy his life while smiling in the cameras. He said during his speech, strange, “I am not sure of the amount of the left until real,” as if half of the country was only NPCS. He also has repeatedly insisted that the important thing is “enjoyment” while he releases people randomly, Stop food and health careThe economic stability of the country and the world threatens. But hey, everything is just a fun video game, right? If you germ it, just click “Restart”, right?

This is all frustrated, but there is some hope to stick to it. It is important to understand that Gamergate failed. Thousands of people, most of whom are men, spent large amounts of time screaming on the Internet on feminists, but in the end, they did nothing. They did not make feminism disappear, and this is certain. They even did not make video games less “wake up”, which is why they are still complaining now. All they did is to turn themselves into worse people. Tell yourself that others are “NPCS” is a soothing lie, but it does not make it. Other people have brains and can see this Dennis behavior for what it is. Opinion polls show that Trump’s approval categories begin To fall – quickly. The more aggressive people seen the illegal assault on the federal government, the more concern. Unlike the video game, he cannot turn off and make the chaos that he created disappears.