2016 US Presidential Election Thread 2 - Always Darkest before Don

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It's going to be a tie.
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Oh, I didn't even see that. Virginia is gone. Pennsylvania is gone but that's due to corruption (I drive in every other weekend and it is very much Trump country). Trump needs to take Florida, then run the table with the remaining swing states and capture New Hampshire. Tough path, but the Lizard Queen really sucks.
 
With all the shitposting going on, I thought I'd do my part and give you all some shit to laugh at. Those of you who wondered when the inevitable was going to happen and some retards blamed Trump on Gamergate: Worry no longer, I got a bunch and here's three of them in ascending order of funny.

1. Donald Trump = Gamergate
Bustle said:
Twitter trolls love derailment. It’s one of the main tent poles of Gamergate: Guy accuses woman of cheating on him for game reviews — something which is demonstrably false — and the argument becomes, “IT’S ABOUT ETHICS IN GAMING JOURNALISM!” It’s not about ethics in gaming journalism, but by claiming that it is, the focus gets shifted from the disproven accusation as a way of brushing it under the rug. And that’s exactly what Trump did when he moved a conversation about some… dare I say… deplorable things he said and did to ISIS.

This isn’t the only Twitter troll strategy Trump employed throughout the gate; his attack on the Affordable Care Act without offering a concrete solution is one, and his avoiding the question about whether or not his stance on his proposed Muslim ban stands so much that moderator Martha Raddatz had to repeatedly tell him to answer the question already is another. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I watched the majority of the debate with my hands to my mouth in absolute astonishment.
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2. TRUMP IS A BLACK MARK ON DEMOCRACY CAUSED BY GAMERGATE
Salon said:
For those who survived Gamergate, a 2014 dustup over the place of women in the video-gaming world, the 2016 election is instilling a deep and unpleasant sense of déjà vu. It’s not just that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his acolytes are playing to the same grievance about “social justice warriors” who dare to think that white men should share power with women and people of color. It’s that Trump and his men are using the same tools as the Gamergaters: gaslighting, projection, working the refs and leaning heavily on often subconscious double standards that allow white men to have more benefit of the doubt than others.

What’s really terrifying is that for a surprisingly long time Gamergate worked: For months, anti-feminists in the tech world were extremely effective at undermining feminists and creating the illusion that a bunch of bullies might have legitimate grievances. Eventually, most witnesses to Gamergate woke up and saw it for what it was. I have no doubt the same will happen with the Trump campaign. Even if many people don’t get it right now, history will remember the campaign as a black mark on our democracy, forged in bigotry.
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3. THE FBI, APPARENTLY, IS ALSO GAMERGATE
National Observer said:
If the birther issue was about forcing America’s first black president to produce ID, the FBI and WikiLeaks attacks on Clinton are the ritualized digital strip-search of a woman.

This isn’t disclosure, it’s revenge porn politics. Mrs. Clinton's gender has everything to do with it.

The 2016 election campaign has turned into some ghastly Groundhog Day torture spin-off, where every morning, Clinton's sworn enemies effectively break into her digital house. They rummage through her underwear drawer, flip through her diary and scroll through her phone before posting and leaking everything on Twitter, Facebook and national TV.

If this sounds vaguely familiar, try Googling Gamergate. In almost every respect the WikiLeaks and FBI attacks parallel the well documented swarming white male online abuse of women, especially anyone who identifies as feminist. It even features almost many of the usual suspects reprising their previous Gamergate roles: Reddit, 4chan, bots, and Breitbart News writer Milos Yiannopoulos.

Breitbart News is the crusading white male alt-right news website headed by Trump’s campaign CEO Steve Bannon. In a curious foreshadowing, when Twitter suspended Yiannopoulos for his targeted abuse of SNL’s Leslie Jones last summer, WikiLeaks attacked and threatened Twitter.
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That last one made me nearly fall out of my chair from laughing too hard.
 
Tranhuviya said:
Guess I'm going to have take responsibility over the Pentagon Reformers/Alt-Right Military Wackjobs threads. GJ, mang.
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He claimed the f-35 was the best thing since sliced bread and that we shouldnt worry about years behind schedule and billions in upgrades and purchases of useless prototypes.
Good riddance
 
Jaimas said:
With all the shitposting going on, I thought I'd do my part and give you all some shit to laugh at. Those of you who wondered when the inevitable was going to happen and some exceptional individuals blamed Trump on Gamergate: Worry no longer, I got a bunch and here's three of them in ascending order of funny.

1. Donald Trump = Gamergate


2. TRUMP IS A BLACK MARK ON DEMOCRACY CAUSED BY GAMERGATE


3. THE FBI, APPARENTLY, IS ALSO GAMERGATE


That last one made me nearly fall out of my chair from laughing too hard.
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Damn, who knew a twitter hashtag had that much influence? I'm woke now.
 
Jaimas said:
With all the shitposting going on, I thought I'd do my part and give you all some shit to laugh at. Those of you who wondered when the inevitable was going to happen and some exceptional individuals blamed Trump on Gamergate: Worry no longer, I got a bunch and here's three of them in ascending order of funny.

1. Donald Trump = Gamergate


2. TRUMP IS A BLACK MARK ON DEMOCRACY CAUSED BY GAMERGATE


3. THE FBI, APPARENTLY, IS ALSO GAMERGATE


That last one made me nearly fall out of my chair from laughing too hard.
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I love when other people realize gamergate is a joke
 
I only want Trump to win because of the absolute Chernobyl-style meltdown that's going to occur on every Facebook and Twitter feed known to man.

If Hillary wins, we will get some quality salt out of the usual suspects, but we will be accepting the consolation prize instead of the true gift of lulz.
 
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