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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's just an extension of extremist Christian white nationalism/neonazi shit. They realized terminally online young men were very vulnerable to this sort of grooming way back before gamergate even. It was definately weaponized in the US against Clinton and Harris. It's 90% political in origin.

It is arguably true that many young men are shat on by the world we have created for them compared with the past. Stupid fucking gig economy, home ownership, cost of living, transition from manufacturing to service economy. But the people enslaving their brains are the same people with a foot on their necks keeping them down economically and socially. Pull back the curtains and its a handful of mega rich cunts protecting their fortunes by raising a compliant army of cucks to distort the democratic process.

Young men need to open their eyes and tell the sketchy old pedo dudes trying to manipulate them to fuckoff, NYPA!

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You're on the ball. In Australia, a member of the current biggest neo-Nazi group (Stuart von Moger IIRC) tried to join NDIS and got investogated when they asked to be assigned to disaffected young men. This is an established strategy across the Western world and one certainly at play here.