Message from @CreativeRealms
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"I'm right. All of you people are wrong"
"THERE SCRIB GOES AGAIN"
everyone around you tells you it's a lie, so it feels like a faint dream eventually
Only difference is, I have gamergate fresh in my memory. To assure me that there can indeed be thousands of bullshitters to one sane person.
yes
GamerGate was invaluable to knowing the patterns
as well as 1984 itself
i didnt need gamergate for that
have those fresh in your mind
but it did engage me politcally anyways
I wasn't around for gamergate.
for that? no
Well, 1984 was fiction.
Gamergate is a little more valuable because it really happened.
but to know their tactics? for the alarm bells to ring on certain ocasions? yes
and you'll see it
I'm always a little dubious of people justifying their claims based on fictional material
Oliver Campbell (super inspiring dude)
1984 was fiction, yet the left uses tactics from it like it was their handbook
1984 was based of socialism.
It's based off reality, while Gamergate IS reality.
said in 2014 that this was only going to end when violence got into the picture
We saw it. It happened to people.
Lives are still destroyed by it.
IT's still someone's guess or extrapolation
It may be useful, but it's not _evidence_
the reason why 1984 keeps being relevant is simply because its about authoritarianism and authoritarianism will keep rearing its head every time the next crisis pops up
Yeah I'm not trying to equate it to reality but there is a lot to learn from it.
the tactis themselves never change
only the circumstances
I don't really think so; it all hinges on what you think reality is like
If e.g. 1984 seems to reflect reality well, you heed it as a warning
If it seems off the mark, it's not credible
So it's ultimately begging the question
Like, every cyberpunk dystopia is based off of reality
@Grenade123
This is a cautionary tale fiction book compared to real world dictatorships in the same sense that the boy who cried wolf is a cautionary tale for losing trust & how valuable it is
well i can go into history and give you example after example after example
it's grounded in reality
where the same thing happened over and over again