I apologize in advance for the length of this post.
However, I assure you, for those who get through it, you will be as excited as I am.


Some of you may have noticed that I have been absent from this board for a bit.
Some of that was getting ready for a new project.
Some of that was researching the #GamerGate movement.
There are a lot of references that I have included below: take the time.
Some of the references use strong language, note that.


Simply put, #GamerGate is a grassroots uprising of video gamers who are demanding ethics in video game journalism.
Supporters of this movement use the twitter hash tag #GamerGate to identify themselves and their twitter posts.
On the surface, #GamerGate probably sounds like a non-issue.
But it is not - it is huge, it is important, and it is not going away.


For the record, I am not a video gamer.
I am, however, very interested in Liberty movements.
To me, #GamerGate is a grassroots opposition movement to our Ruling Class Marxists who have decided to co-opt the messaging of games.
This is what got me intrigued about #GamerGate in the first place: #GamerGate is a Liberty movement, even if its supporters might not fully realize it.


I started coming to this realization when I saw *striking* correlations between the Tea Party and #GamerGate uprisings.

Here are just a few:


1a) The Tea Party wants fiscally responsible government.
For this they have been demonized by the Ruling Class and the media as racists and bigots who are just short of terrorists.

1b) #GamerGate wants ethics in games journalism which they believe to have been co-opted by what they call Social Justice Warriors (SJWs).
For this they have been demonized by the SJWs and the gaming media as sexists and misogynists who resort to online threats and intimidation.


2a) The Tea Party is constantly portrayed by the media as being over, dead, or irrelevant.

2b) #GamerGate receives the same treatment from gaming media.


3a) The Tea Party discovered that the media was colluding against it in the now infamous JournoList.

3b) #GamerGate has found the same media collusion in a private chat group called GameJournoPros.


4a) The Tea Party is deeply concerned over corruption and oppression from a Ruling Class which is pushing an agenda of Cultural Marxism.

4b) #GamerGate is deeply concerned over corruption and oppression from Social justice Warriors who are pushing an agenda of Cultural Marxism.


What is interesting is that neither group realizes fully yet that they are fighting the same battle against the same people.


Although there are flashes of that realization:
“I used to mock right-wingers when they raged about biased liberal media and feminists. Mea fucking culpa.”
http://twitter.com/eudaimoniarick/status...


The online gaming community is absolutely on fire over #GamerGate, and I believe with good reason.

But to be fully understand #GamerGate, it is necessary to become familiar with two people: Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian
Both women are central to the issue, and both women have been the targets of harassment concerning it.


Who #GamerGate thinks Zoe Quinn is:
"Quinnspiracy Theory: The Five Guys Saga": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-51PfwI...

Who the Main Stream Media present Zoe Quinn as:
"GamerGate Zoe Quinn: 'I have a folder called those who left'": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nVDjIX7h...

A #GamerGate response to harassment against Zoe Quinn:
"RANT: #GamerGate - Zoe Quinn, Journalism, and Anita Sarkeesian": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D6EAmH53...


Who #GamerGate thinks Anita Sarkeesian is:
"REFUTING ANITA SARKEESIAN's 'Damsel in Distress: Part 2'": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25o0EZiog...

Who the Main Stream Media present Anita Sarkeesian as:
"The Colbert Report: Gamergate - Anita Sarkeesian": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_Wmeg7O...

A #GamerGate response to harassment against Anita Sarkeesian:
"Anita Sarkeesian vs Marilyn Manson": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1PkyVzR...


So, with that background, we now come to #GamerGate proper.
Here are two very good video synopses of the #GamerGate movement:
"GAMERGATE! Gamer's fight back! Guest video by TheInvestigamer!": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCExXie1X...
"The Evidence and History of #GamerGate": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMdf8D0l...

#GamerGate spawned a second twitter hashtag #NotYourShield.
#NotYourShield represented "minority" gamers who supported #GamerGate
"This is #Gamergate (What Media Won't Tell You)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QERu2Y2i1...

#GamerGate spawned a third twitter hashtag #OpSKYNET.
#OpSKYNET is best describer here:
"WTF is #OpSKYNET? (and its relation to #GamerGate)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or5se6xZL...
Here is the reaction I received on twitter when I identified with #OpSKYNET: http://twitter.com/eudaimoniarick/status...
48 retweets, 61 favorites, and about 80 follows from one tweet.


As far as #GamerGate is concerned, what happened to them, what happened to Matt Taylor at ESA, and to some even what happened to Brandon Eich at Mozilla are all connected.
They correctly see it as the same battle against the same forces.
http://twitter.com/themanclaw/status/533...


As further proof, these are the two pieces by SJW Games Journalist Chris Plante which were mentioned in a previous link:
1) "GamerGate is dead": http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/30/71319...
2) “I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing”: http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/72138...


GamerGate supporters are serious and they are not backing down.


Lastly a pro #GamerGate piece in Breitbart:
"THE AUTHORITARIAN LEFT WAS ON COURSE TO WIN THE CULTURE WARS... THEN ALONG CAME #GAMERGATE": http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Londo...


Some of the oldsters like me might have been asking themselves, "Where are the young-bloods who will raise up and carry the standard of Liberty when we tire?"
I humbly submit :
They are here;
They are #GamerGate;
They are #NotYourShield;
They are #OpSKYNET.


Your comments are welcome.