William Gillis 🏴Jul 17, 2024

The entire reactionary wave is The Backlash To The Internet.

The creation of the internet allowed anarchist (and similar) ideas to rapidly spread in influence. The resulting catalyzing culture of half-converted liberals (eg tumblr) went wide and irked selfish bastards who in turn unionized.

Show threadben chambers 🏴
@rechelon parentally unsupervised internet access is probably the singular reason i broke the conservative mold of the rest of my family, and years of free roam experience and graduating intellectually from ancap to ancom pre-gamergate helped me avoid the alt-right cesspit which i was demographically primed to fall into
Jul 17, 2024 at 1:54amWeb
Show threadVoid TurtleJul 17, 2024

@bcham @rechelon I had a similar trajectory, plus the internet allowed me to explore queer/trans identities. My parents sort of understood the danger, which is why my dad once took my laptop when he slightly suspected I had an email account he didn't know about and so couldn't surveil for deviancy lol

IRL influence from my sister helped me avoid alt-right shit. And gamergate was so obviously nonsense on its face I couldn't believe anyone actually gave a shit about the things they were allegedly mad about. But of course it wasn't really about that as pointed out in this post