Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
1d ago
Yeah, that's kinda GG all over. The horrible toxic gamergate harassers were all anonymous randos, while all the anti-team's lying propaganda and victim playacting came from, well, Named Elites with fancy health bars.
Ultimately, gamers as a community were test subjects for outrage-click journalism. In the lead up to GG, outlets and individual actors were discovering that if you shit on nerds, half of them will get mad at you, and the other half will knuckle under and get mad at the first half to prove they're "one of the good ones." Before white guilt was found to be WAY more volatile and easy to extract, they were going after nerdy male guilt.
Skulldrinker
3d ago
It was billed as "Inclusive" speed dating. They had other events that were "queer-only," and I think I saw one that was explicitly masks-mandatory. One event was called "baby queer speed friending." There's really no particular reason that queerness has any connection to being a maskie, but of course the two are highly correlated.
It's apparently normal enough that I was the only person at the event to roll their eyes and make a snarky comment about it. I only went because it was the most local and least scammy-looking speed dating org in the area. In one night I had three conversations that went hobbies->books->fantasy->"JKR is such a disgusting bigot."
Skulldrinker
5d ago
West side Chicago.
Skulldrinker
5d ago
The effects of slightly more COVID deaths would have been way less visible in people's lives than the effects of long-term lockdowns turned out to be, and scared people could have just stayed home; work from home could have continued for email people without lockdowns.
They could have just ended the lockdowns after two weeks like they said they would. Or after doctors declared COVID was less dangerous than racism. Or after the vaccines became available. Instead they waited til May 2023, and by that point maskies had become subculture; I still see maskies every day. I tried going to fucking speed dating last year, and they handed out masks and required proof of vaccination.
In the mirror universe, is there a subculture of people in perpetual mourning for those who died from COVID? They'd be indistinguishable from goths.
It also happened shortly after Anita and Feminist Frequency had gotten the pot nice and stirred up.
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