Davis Aurini - The Mensheviks of #Gamergate

March 24, 2017 - Davis Aurini

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The Mensheviks of #Gamergate

A retrospective on how Gamergate was infiltrated by the moderate left, turned upon the right-wing supporters, and ultimately failed. My blog: http://www.staresattheworld.com/ My Twitter: http://twitter.com/Aurini Download in MP3 Format: http://www.youtubeconvert.cc/ Request a video here: http://www.staresattheworld.com/aurinis-insight/ Support my In Depth Analysis series through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DMJAurini

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	I've been thinking about Gamergate recently.
	In particular, what an abject failure it was.
	It managed to get some meaningless concessions from some of the online video game magazines that were particularly infested with SJWs.
	But with the recent publishing of Mass Effect Andromeda, which has become an absolute joke, it's very clear that the whole company has been, BioWare has been infested with SJWs who not only write garbage plots, but are also incapable of doing basic animations correctly.
	This is just the cherry on top.
	As the largest voices of Gamergate were announcing how well it succeeded, we now have SJWs completely infesting the AAA industry.
	And, you know, QQ did a great video a while back talking about how, despite Gamergate, maybe you could even say because of how far Gamergate fell from its ideals, they managed to take over the indie market and then sell out the indie market to the AAA industry.
	So now we don't even have a resistance force of good games being made.
	It's nothing but Hollywood pablum, and you're going to buy it and you're going to like it no matter what anybody says.
	So I've been thinking about how the whole thing went down.
	And I think the best analogy is the Mensheviks in Russia.
	Now my last in-depth analysis video was about these philosophical movements in Russian history.
	And I'm still working on the follow-up about how the Trotskyism and Leninism applies to modern-day politics.
	And despite the Trump administration, it's still very, very relevant.
	But I'm just going to review this briefly for any of you who missed that video or who forget the details.
	Essentially, what we had in Soviet Russia, or with the development, what created Soviet Russia, what turned it from, what took it from the Tsar and gave it over to the Marxists, what happened is that you had two main groups.
	The Bolsheviks, who were the inner party of the far left, and the Mensheviks.
	The Mensheviks were the wider, the more democratic, the socialist group of people.
	This would include laborers, skilled laborers, farmers.
	This was the populist side of communism.
	And then you had the Bolsheviks, which was the elitist side of communism.
	Now, in actual fact, the way the whole thing played out is that you had all of these Mensheviks thinking that they were part of the movement when they were just the useful idiots.
	They were the groundswell of support to attack, to remove, and to murder the Tsar and his family.
	But they were being played like fools by the Bolsheviks, by the inner party of elites.
	And so what's happened recently, what's been happening for the past 20 years, 50 years, is that the left, the left is controlled by a small cabal of radicals.
	Okay, I say a small cabal.
	I'm talking hundreds and thousands of university professors, journalists, think tanks, politicians, etc.
	Okay, but it's a very small group compared to the vast swath of people that consider themselves to be left-wing, consider themselves to be progressive or democrat or what have you.
	And so what happened in the years leading up to Gamergate is that the Bolshevik group, okay, the far left became increasingly radical.
	You know, in Soviet Russia, you saw that the Bolsheviks eventually turned on the farmers.
	The farmers were unpatriotic for not giving all of their food to the new Soviet state.
	They were unpatriotic for not working 22 hours a day, etc.
	And so they were inconvenient.
	We're going to starve those people to death.
	You know, the Russian Revolution starts off as this big movement where you're going to liberate the workers, you name it, and it winds up attacking the very people it was supposed to liberate.
	This is what has happened with the current left.
	You know, and call it social justice or feminism, progressivism, the label changes every so often, but it's the same group of people, the same toxic, year zero, universalist ideology coming out of these people.
	So the Bolsheviks in this case are your average semi-educated, you know, like university educated, but they have an IQ below 120, so they can't really understand anything they learned.
	It's these people who were promised, you know, like we get feminism.
	Now you don't have to get married.
	You get to have lots of sex.
	There's no nationalism anymore.
	So you shouldn't have to serve in the military because that's scary and that's frightening.
	And you shouldn't have to be responsible for yourself.
	Good lord, working a job, having to show up on time, that's no fun.
	We'll give you some welfare.
	You had this huge group of these lazy, morally weak, non-intellectual, anti-intellectual moderates who were the Mensheviks of all of this.
	And so they thought this was just wonderful.
	And then, you know, building up more and more over the past 15 years, but getting really hardcore about five years ago, you started to get the radical left SJWs, where you have to be a non-binary, bisexual, furry, whatever, a degenerate freak.
	We hate white men.
	We hate people that are successful in business, et cetera, et cetera.
	We hate quality.
	We hate beauty.
	We hate anything good.
	We want to degrade everything.
	And these people became the bleeding edge.
	And so all of these Mensheviks, all of these moderates, were being thrown under the bus.
	And so with Gamergate, with Gamergate, You know, we had, it was an alliance, a very loose and toxic alliance between the right and the moderate left.
	Except the moderate left, these Mensheviks, they just wanted to wind back the clock about five or ten years.
	They just wanted to go back where white men weren't being attacked all the time, etc.
	But you know what?
	They can still do whatever they want.
	They can do drugs, they can go on welfare, you name it.
	You know, they still want all of that, all of those false promises that the Bolsheviks were offering them.
	You know, they just didn't want to admit this was the inevitable decline.
	Whereas the right, the right is about principles.
	It is about personal integrity, personal responsibility.
	It's about having an understanding of history.
	It's about greatness, about pursuing greatness, about always improving yourself, about having standards.
	And so if you can imagine in Russia, you know, if these Mensheviks were all upset with the Bolsheviks because they're being starved to death, etc., you know, you could see, you could see the monarchists, the true right, mistaking them for allies because they're opposed to the Bolsheviks.
	But see, these Mensheviks are just as opposed to the right, to having principles, as the Bolsheviks are.
	They hate the idea that they have to keep their word, that they need to earn a living, that they need to be decent human beings.
	They hate that just as much as the extreme left.
	And so what happened with Gamergate is that all of these moderates, you know, they rose to influence because when you don't care whether or not you're a hypocrite, it's a lot easier to criticize other people quickly and in an entertaining manner.
	So these are the voices that rose to prominence through Gamergate, took over Gamergate, ousted anybody that actually had principles, anybody that thought, you know, that principles matter.
	Because, again, all that these people stand for is getting along and being nice and identifying with one another as opposed to living up to any sort of standard.
	So these are the guys that took it over.
	They declared it a victory.
	And these days, they're trying to jump in front of the Trump train, but it's not working very well.
	You know, because what we're seeing now in politics is the right.
	I think we learned that lesson.
	We learned just how treacherous the moderates are.
	They're not moderates.
	Okay, they're leftists.
	They're just not leftists that are currently in power.
	We recognized how treacherous they were.
	And the alt-right, the dissident right, the Trump administration, we're not playing ball with any of these scumbags or neocons or moderates anymore.
	We are actually organizing based upon principle.
	And so the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks are over here having their stupid little fight, you know, talk about SJWs, this, that, the other thing.
	Whereas we are actually moving full speed ahead.
	So I think something like, you know, you take Mass Affected Andromeda, you know, you take gaming in general.
	It was a casualty.
	Sadly, gaming has largely been taken over by the SJWs that the Gamergate was supposed to fight.
	Gamergate didn't just lose the fight.
	Gamergate handed the fight over exactly the same way that Bernie Sanders willingly handed over the Democrat, the nomination to Hillary Clinton.
	They gave it away.
	But we learned the lesson, and you know what?
	Sacrificing good video games for the next five years in exchange for the Trump administration, absolutely worth it.
	And I think that all of us are a lot stronger for it.
	Deus Volt, folks.

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