As a female working in the tech industry who watched the horrors of Gamergate first hand from the inside including witnessing an ex boyfriend and Gaming Designer turn from a decent equality accepting human being into a fully paid up Proud Boy incel I find this totally unsurprising.
Because nobody with any decent level of influence bothered to learn anything from Gamergate and the few who did try such as Carole Cadwalladr were hung out to dry by minuscule members of the global Putin funded far right wing Brexiteer white male supremacist Broligarth alliance like Arron Banks.
A single demographic owns the despicable Far Right Wing MSM
The multi billionare anti social media Broligarths are the same single demographic
All of them are public school educated muti billionare white men with an ultra misogynistic far right wing political leaning from Murdoch and Bannon via Delingpole and Theil to Musk and Marshall.
It's time to stop pretending that outdated neanderthal patriarchy, white male supremacy and fear of evolution and progress are not one among the main reasons we are now looking at the global reanimation of fascism for the 21st century. It's also time to stop burying the relentless targeted radicalisation of white working class men by anti social media, the mainstream media and of course the dark web. The techniques used by Delingpole, Peterson, Bannon, Tate, Musk, Marshall and Co are the exact same techniques used by Geobbels and ISIS. Lie repetition and the creation/amplification of false enemies has been proved to work again and again. Goebbels only had free radios whilst Musk has access to every individual on the planet that has a smartphone or internet access.
It's no accident the far right, it's orchestrators, sponsors and supporters are almost exclusively white men. The same demographic that owns over 90% of the worlds wealth.
We are now past the point of no return but we are here not least of all because a lot of wealthy white men who could have done more to prevent a return to full on Goebbels Gilead Kinder Kuche Kirche sat and watched it happen because of the "I'm Alright Jack" knowledge that they would always be OK.
Never forget as we watch our human rights, reproductive freedoms, workplace protection, standard of living, freedom of choice and genuine freedom of speech as opposed to freedom for the far right to spread toxic hate speech 24-7 being removed for ever:-
It started when good people turned a blind eye and let it happen
Theil is also a fully paid up sponsor of the total removal of women's reproductive freedom. A staunch supporter of enforced pregnancy even for 12 year old rape victims.
Farage is already wanting a debate on restricting abortion rights in the UK and if RefCon are Musked into No.10 which is what the entire open ongoing insurrection against the Labour Govt is all about he will follow the exact same Bannon playbook as the Orange Sex Abuser when it comes to womens rights.
Can't think of anything more important in UK politics at the moment than reforming political funding to ensure the dark money cesspool does not cross the pond in its entirety. It's here already to a degree that is unacceptable in a properly functioning democracy and Starmer needs to act swiftly and effectively to prevent it from tainting political life in the UK.
Totally agree and I think/hope it's on the cards as well as some kind of ban or restriction on Musk/X after yesterday particularly. There's also the online harms bill which i believe comes into force soon.
It's hugely disappointing that none of the LW/Centre/Moderate RW Govts who have been in power for more than a year have done anything tangible to stop the march of Ketamine Goebbels poisonous Fascism until very recently. If I knew what was afoot the second he bought Twitter and reanimated Tate Trump Jones Yaxley Lemon Hopkins and Co immediately what were they all doing 🤦♀️ Particularly Biden Macron Trudeau and Sholz...
I'm terrified that it's too late to prevent full on Fascism regardless now particularly since the Far right, the anti social media Broligarths and over 90% of the UK MSM are all on the same Putin funded Neo Nazi side...
Great post because it demonstrates exactly what anyone opposed to Fascism is now up against, constant outright lies and false equivalences from the defenders of the Return of Goebbles:-
-None of the individuals or organisations you mention are the richest man in the world with access to every individual with a smartphone or internet globally so their power to influence isn't even close
-None of them own a global social media platform and use it to repeatedly undermine a fellow NATO ally and openly attempt to bring down their Govt
-None of them have amplified or openly supported dangerous Fascist riots that resulted in libraries mosques and hotels being raised to the ground or innocent lives being lost (AfD terror attack)
-Unions are UK based and their members are democratically elected. Nobody voted for Musk in the US let alone the UK
-The far right spent years pissing the bed over alleged 'foreign interference' from the EU but have no issue with an apartheid South African immigrant dictating what the UK can think or even who they can have as PM
Rank racist driven hypocrisy as per usual with the far right and I could add at least 20 more examples of their grotesque hypocrisy if I had time
I was about to delete my pretty much inactive Instagram account but I have lost my password. Making the change is one thing, making the change to appease Trump is a whole different ballgame. BlueSky is the only uncorrupted space.
Sadly, Bluesky is a closed loop where entirely moderate voices like the journalist Jesse Singal are treated like Fascists and where people are passing around mass block lists. If you are unhappy about the success of the MAGA right, as we all should be, consider that many liberal and centrist people have been repelled by the progressive" left" silencing any debate on issues that profoundly affect people, and calling people bigots for disagreeing. People have been hounded out of their jobs. It was bound to end in tears.
Progressive left.. what a patronising arrogant elitist pompous statement. I'm so much better than them. You can see where stalinism came from. Equally as repulsive as saying Jews run the world and people of colour are inferior. No wonder populism is winning.
Imagine having the opportunity and the money to do good in this world and choosing not to. He had the option to be different or even to close it down and turn his back on all this/not be part of what comes next out if this horrible degradation of democracy, civility, and morality, but nope. I guess the origins of Facebook tell us all we need to know.
Excellent News Agents' edition yesterday with Andrew Norfolk although you appear to have upset Matt Goodwin who says you reflect the radical progressive mindset and should focus on the issues that matter rather than obsessing about Elon Musk. It's almost as if he hasn't actually listened to that edition....
‘Fox and Friends?’ Hilarious that they are unconsciously referencing a movie (English title: Fox and his Friends) by the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder! (Faustrecht der Freiheit - translatable as Freedom’s Law of the Jungle. Quite apt, as it happens).
🤣 Problem is unlike all the Bond villains he’s grotesque in real life whereas the Bond villains needed a cameraman a huge number of accessories and lots of makeup to look or act so vile
Plus he’s real and most of the candidates for his real nemesis have either wimped out or been silenced…
For many thousands of moderate and socialist women, the "fact checking" on Meta and on pre-Musk Twitter was straightforward censorship. We could not state facts such as no one changes sex, males have significant physiological advantages over women in sport, or that men who identifiy as women still have the offending pattern of men and so the risk to women of transwomen in female facilities should be assessed accordingly. Every one of those facts would lead to a ban for hate speech, whereas the "fact" that Transwomen are women" was never to be debated. So "facts" can indeed be biased. The overreach by the progressive left in the USA was bound to come to an end.
As a female working in the tech industry who watched the horrors of Gamergate first hand from the inside including witnessing an ex boyfriend and Gaming Designer turn from a decent equality accepting human being into a fully paid up Proud Boy incel I find this totally unsurprising.
There is a great article from 2016 that is a case of read this now and weep if you still give a crap about democracy. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/01/gamergate-alt-right-hate-trump
Because nobody with any decent level of influence bothered to learn anything from Gamergate and the few who did try such as Carole Cadwalladr were hung out to dry by minuscule members of the global Putin funded far right wing Brexiteer white male supremacist Broligarth alliance like Arron Banks.
A single demographic owns the despicable Far Right Wing MSM
The multi billionare anti social media Broligarths are the same single demographic
All of them are public school educated muti billionare white men with an ultra misogynistic far right wing political leaning from Murdoch and Bannon via Delingpole and Theil to Musk and Marshall.
It's time to stop pretending that outdated neanderthal patriarchy, white male supremacy and fear of evolution and progress are not one among the main reasons we are now looking at the global reanimation of fascism for the 21st century. It's also time to stop burying the relentless targeted radicalisation of white working class men by anti social media, the mainstream media and of course the dark web. The techniques used by Delingpole, Peterson, Bannon, Tate, Musk, Marshall and Co are the exact same techniques used by Geobbels and ISIS. Lie repetition and the creation/amplification of false enemies has been proved to work again and again. Goebbels only had free radios whilst Musk has access to every individual on the planet that has a smartphone or internet access.
It's no accident the far right, it's orchestrators, sponsors and supporters are almost exclusively white men. The same demographic that owns over 90% of the worlds wealth.
We are now past the point of no return but we are here not least of all because a lot of wealthy white men who could have done more to prevent a return to full on Goebbels Gilead Kinder Kuche Kirche sat and watched it happen because of the "I'm Alright Jack" knowledge that they would always be OK.
Never forget as we watch our human rights, reproductive freedoms, workplace protection, standard of living, freedom of choice and genuine freedom of speech as opposed to freedom for the far right to spread toxic hate speech 24-7 being removed for ever:-
It started when good people turned a blind eye and let it happen
Well well well the techbrotherhood doesn't have the peoples interests at heart (ie healthy reliance on facts) who would have thunk it
Oh good. What could possibly go wrong?
Don’t overlook Peter Thiel of Palantir in all this. He’s also in league with these guys and getting into our NHS.
I didn't ;-)
Theil is also a fully paid up sponsor of the total removal of women's reproductive freedom. A staunch supporter of enforced pregnancy even for 12 year old rape victims.
Farage is already wanting a debate on restricting abortion rights in the UK and if RefCon are Musked into No.10 which is what the entire open ongoing insurrection against the Labour Govt is all about he will follow the exact same Bannon playbook as the Orange Sex Abuser when it comes to womens rights.
Can't think of anything more important in UK politics at the moment than reforming political funding to ensure the dark money cesspool does not cross the pond in its entirety. It's here already to a degree that is unacceptable in a properly functioning democracy and Starmer needs to act swiftly and effectively to prevent it from tainting political life in the UK.
Totally agree and I think/hope it's on the cards as well as some kind of ban or restriction on Musk/X after yesterday particularly. There's also the online harms bill which i believe comes into force soon.
It's hugely disappointing that none of the LW/Centre/Moderate RW Govts who have been in power for more than a year have done anything tangible to stop the march of Ketamine Goebbels poisonous Fascism until very recently. If I knew what was afoot the second he bought Twitter and reanimated Tate Trump Jones Yaxley Lemon Hopkins and Co immediately what were they all doing 🤦♀️ Particularly Biden Macron Trudeau and Sholz...
I'm terrified that it's too late to prevent full on Fascism regardless now particularly since the Far right, the anti social media Broligarths and over 90% of the UK MSM are all on the same Putin funded Neo Nazi side...
Never bothered the left when ussr was pumping money into unions left wing journalists and Parliamentarians.
Great post because it demonstrates exactly what anyone opposed to Fascism is now up against, constant outright lies and false equivalences from the defenders of the Return of Goebbles:-
-None of the individuals or organisations you mention are the richest man in the world with access to every individual with a smartphone or internet globally so their power to influence isn't even close
-None of them own a global social media platform and use it to repeatedly undermine a fellow NATO ally and openly attempt to bring down their Govt
-None of them have amplified or openly supported dangerous Fascist riots that resulted in libraries mosques and hotels being raised to the ground or innocent lives being lost (AfD terror attack)
-Unions are UK based and their members are democratically elected. Nobody voted for Musk in the US let alone the UK
-The far right spent years pissing the bed over alleged 'foreign interference' from the EU but have no issue with an apartheid South African immigrant dictating what the UK can think or even who they can have as PM
Rank racist driven hypocrisy as per usual with the far right and I could add at least 20 more examples of their grotesque hypocrisy if I had time
But the sins of the past shouldn't be visited on the present.
Our.....its not mine. Its dreadful. It gets nearly third trillion pounds a year and it's appalling. Why would any private company be interested?
I was about to delete my pretty much inactive Instagram account but I have lost my password. Making the change is one thing, making the change to appease Trump is a whole different ballgame. BlueSky is the only uncorrupted space.
Sadly, Bluesky is a closed loop where entirely moderate voices like the journalist Jesse Singal are treated like Fascists and where people are passing around mass block lists. If you are unhappy about the success of the MAGA right, as we all should be, consider that many liberal and centrist people have been repelled by the progressive" left" silencing any debate on issues that profoundly affect people, and calling people bigots for disagreeing. People have been hounded out of their jobs. It was bound to end in tears.
Progressive left.. what a patronising arrogant elitist pompous statement. I'm so much better than them. You can see where stalinism came from. Equally as repulsive as saying Jews run the world and people of colour are inferior. No wonder populism is winning.
Imagine having the opportunity and the money to do good in this world and choosing not to. He had the option to be different or even to close it down and turn his back on all this/not be part of what comes next out if this horrible degradation of democracy, civility, and morality, but nope. I guess the origins of Facebook tell us all we need to know.
This is reminiscent of the Russian oligarchs and Putin.
Terrifying. Just bloody terrifying
Excellent News Agents' edition yesterday with Andrew Norfolk although you appear to have upset Matt Goodwin who says you reflect the radical progressive mindset and should focus on the issues that matter rather than obsessing about Elon Musk. It's almost as if he hasn't actually listened to that edition....
Musk is basically a Bond baddie, isn't he?
What does this mean for the protection of kids and the online safety bill here? Terrifying times.
The long night begins
The night of the long knives approaches more like or the year of the long knives to be more accurate...
‘Fox and Friends?’ Hilarious that they are unconsciously referencing a movie (English title: Fox and his Friends) by the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder! (Faustrecht der Freiheit - translatable as Freedom’s Law of the Jungle. Quite apt, as it happens).
Nightmarish
🤣 Problem is unlike all the Bond villains he’s grotesque in real life whereas the Bond villains needed a cameraman a huge number of accessories and lots of makeup to look or act so vile
Plus he’s real and most of the candidates for his real nemesis have either wimped out or been silenced…
For many thousands of moderate and socialist women, the "fact checking" on Meta and on pre-Musk Twitter was straightforward censorship. We could not state facts such as no one changes sex, males have significant physiological advantages over women in sport, or that men who identifiy as women still have the offending pattern of men and so the risk to women of transwomen in female facilities should be assessed accordingly. Every one of those facts would lead to a ban for hate speech, whereas the "fact" that Transwomen are women" was never to be debated. So "facts" can indeed be biased. The overreach by the progressive left in the USA was bound to come to an end.