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Does the angry geek/nerd/gamer to communist pipeline exist?
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What really pushed me left was when Matt Walsh did a collab with PragerU. At the time I was a neocon who hated PragerU so I immediately unsubbed. What cemented my left wing stance was when I started applying a left wing lens on the issue of why gaming is in such a terrible state.
Do you reckon abolishing imperialism and capitalism will improve the state of the gaming industry from the perspective of a Western consumer who wants a steady supply of innovative and vibrant video games and related media like twitch streams etc, not to mention the hardware needed to play them?
That's literally my stance as a gamer. My biggest reason being if we abolish capitalism a lot of the video games that revolutionized history - especially the GOATs like Halo CE and Halo 3 - will not only be preserved but made playable on a wider variety of devices now that hardware and IP are non-issues. Even franchises like CoD can improve with this, instead of being neocon propaganda disguised as Fortnite we would see much more nuanced perspectives and even (hopefully with No Russian type missions and Zombies mode still in). Personally I want folks in communist society understand why gaming in in the 2000s was considered a golden age.
As for streams, hopefully folks like N3on, Adin Ross, and Jack Doherty get sanctioned much quicker when they do crazy shit.