Why Has #GamerGate Remained Alive While #OccupyWallStreet is Dead and Buried?

TRPACC · 2015-01-02T16:56:47+00:00

Occupy willfully allowed sjws, who changed the subject to destroy it.

Gamergate are gamers, they play competitive games on computers in their spare time anyway.

genderbent · 2015-01-02T20:10:18+00:00

how about because using a hashtag is a lot easier than actually being out on the streets?

IgnatiusBSamson · 2015-01-02T22:17:39+00:00

LOL @ DLing to ROK, you dummy. These guys are assholes and they make us look like assholes when you use their content.

DavidByron2 · 2015-01-02T20:56:00+00:00

Occupy lasted as long as GamerGate has been going already. Grief.

Vespasians · 2015-01-03T11:13:46+00:00

Becasuse the people involved in each group are very diffrent.

Gamers are very competitive and want to win, are fairly united, they don't have to leave their homes to protest and have presented a rational argument against an irrational one.

Occupy was made up of a load of anachists with no leadership and argued against a rational argument with a load of uncoordinated irrational ones.

_malat · 2015-01-02T20:50:01+00:00

It is laughable to compare GamerGate to Occupy Wall Street.

Occupy Wall Street was taking on the most powerful interests in society. They were targeted by DHS, FBI and local PD's, many of which actually worked in conjunction with the major banks to disrupt the movement.

Claims that "social justice warriors" and "anarchists" (anarchists actually began the movement) were responsible for the its downfall have no basis in reality. The evictions, which used maximum sub-lethal force, were coordinated by the federal government. Agent provocateurs were employed. At the time of the major evictions, the movement was continuing to grow like wildfire. It was crushed by force.

Anyone in doubt about these facts need only watch the documentary "Rise Like Lions," which charts the rise and fall of the movement in great detail.

http://metanoia-films.org/rise-like-lions/

The attacks against Occupy were predictable. Every movement that has attempted to significantly alter class dynamics in the US has been met with extreme violence. It is no longer acceptable to simply mow people down with machine guns, as occurred with labor unions in the late 19th/early 20th Century, so "less-lethal" tactics are employed.

The major mistake of the occupy movement was tying itself to single localities. Once they were evicted there was too much atomization. Nevertheless, the movement did manage to draw attention to class issues in American society, breaking through the electronic Berlin Wall of the corporate media.

Edit: for those downvoting, rest assured that I do indeed support Gamer Gate activists, I just think it's silly to compare the two groups.

lazlounderhill · 2015-01-02T21:14:30+00:00

I think it had more to do with inclement weather than anyone wants to admit.

Cassius666 · 2015-01-02T17:08:36+00:00

What is there to keep alive? Some people on the internet who complain about the conflict of interest in video gaming recension. How did it become such a big thing to begin with? I had not idea so many felt so strongly about the subject.

Title	Why Has #GamerGate Remained Alive While #OccupyWallStreet is Dead and Buried?
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Date	January 2, 2015 4:44 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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