Leo D.M.J. Aurini - How Online Movements Are Infiltrated and Subverted

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

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00:01:32.500 So all of this starts with those groups who have decided to stand up and declare me an enemy, which is actually rather curious if you think about it.

00:01:45.100 On my channel, I tend to criticize ideas, not people. I don't engage in the sort of mudslinging that's popular out there. Very seldom will I go after a specific individual. Usually, I'm critiquing their ideas. 0.53

00:02:01.040 I'm critiquing their movements, pointing out the flaws in them. And for doing so, I have a lot of people who really, really hate what I do, even though I've never gone after them specifically.

00:02:12.800 Now, the list of quote-unquote enemies, because, I mean, calling them enemies is just so utterly absurd in the one sense, and yet these people really have a chip on their shoulder at the same time.

00:02:24.380 The list could be very long. MGTOW, feminists, atheist cult, porn addicts, PUAs, the esoteric Trumpers, neolibertarians, on and on and on.

00:02:34.540 But in this video, I'm going to focus particularly upon three groups, all of whom hate me, and yet all of whom hate one another.

00:02:44.520 And that's really the most significant data point. I'm talking about the SJWs, the Gamer Cucks, that is, the names that took over Gamergate and declared that it won when it clearly lost,

00:02:55.180 and the anime Nazis, those members of the alt-right who just want to viciously spew hatred and tend to have quite sick addictions to pornography and a celebration of Nazidom when they would never be allowed in the Nazi party.

00:03:14.920 They would have been kicked out of it immediately. So the SJWs, the Gamer Cucks, and the anime Nazis. 0.85

00:03:21.000 Now, I picked these three because of something that just recently came to my attention.

00:03:25.960 Some of the insults being flung in my direction, and how they migrate between these groups.

00:03:32.920 Now, the first example of this was the how many skulls.

00:03:37.600 Now, as you know, I used to have a memento mori in the background of my videos.

00:03:41.260 And for some reason, back in the winter of 2015, the SJWs glommed on to this and started sending me these tweets saying how many skulls.

00:03:53.660 Weird insults, not particularly, you know, didn't really arouse any anger, but when you get a hundred, it's kind of annoying.

00:04:00.600 A hundred people tweeting at you.

00:04:01.960 So the how many skulls, it starts with the SJWs.

00:04:05.160 Six months later, the Gamer Cucks start sending me the exact same line.

00:04:11.340 Starting with Shoo on Head and, you know, her little circle of friends.

00:04:15.240 They're all sending me the exact same insult as the SJWs were.

00:04:19.100 They're alleged enemies.

00:04:21.380 Now, what's been happening is the anime Nazis have started sending me some tweet or some message about... 0.98

00:04:29.560 Uh, Davis Arrini says his girlfriend left him to go to Burning Man to sleep with hippies, so he hates women.

00:04:36.640 This started coming from the anime Nazi Neats, but it recently got picked up by the Gamer Cucks.

00:04:42.720 Now, keep in mind, the Gamer Cucks allegedly hate me because I'm some sort of right-wing theocrat, uh, god-believing, whatever.

00:04:52.800 I, I'm, uh, you know, they've gone from hating SJWs to hating the, the, the right-wing, the, the traditional justice warriors.

00:05:00.280 Then that's what they call me.

00:05:01.620 And that's what they would call the anime Nazis.

00:05:03.240 The anime Nazis are what they claim I am.

00:05:05.500 And yet they've picked up the anime Nazi insult to sling at me.

00:05:09.800 Which, of course, it doesn't insult me at all, but it wins points with their audience.

00:05:14.640 So, SJWs, Gamer Cucks, and anime Nazis, there's some sort of, even though all these three groups are utterly opposed to one another, there's lines of communication going on between them that they probably aren't even consciously aware of.

00:05:30.520 So, this is the context of this video, and we'll get back to that at the end.

00:05:34.900 For now, let's talk about what's going on with this.

00:05:37.660 What's going on with the, the culture war?

00:05:39.940 Because the culture war, this, this left versus right, this, this online battle between feminists and MRAs, between Gamergate and SJWs, this is largely a proxy war.

00:05:53.180 It is largely a distraction.

00:05:54.960 Most of it doesn't matter at all.

00:05:58.000 While we're arguing over this nonsense, the people that actually pull the strings are getting away with murder.

00:06:05.140 So, first of all, at best, at best, this culture war is a rearguard action.

00:06:10.560 Now, some of you might have heard with the, with the professor Jordan B. Peterson, a guy I truly, a man I truly admire, has been dealing with over at University of Toronto, where a group of SJWs are trying to silence him for daring to speak frankly on things.

00:06:28.800 Now, this, yes, this is a fight worth fighting, okay, defending the right to free speech on college campuses, this is something worth fighting, but it's a rearguard action, okay?

00:06:40.400 Every so often, the, the SJWs, the radical left, they go and attack an individual or an institution, and we have to muster our forces to go fight them.

00:06:51.060 But that's not a victory, okay?

00:06:52.900 When you win that battle, that's not a strategic victory, because we just wasted a whole bunch of time defending Mr. Peterson, or defending a man that was falsely accused of rape, or, or defending whatever.

00:07:05.320 This is a waste of resources for us, and we have very limited resources compared to the other side, which is massively organized and massively funded.

00:07:15.000 We'll get back to that shortly.

00:07:16.140 Now, despite this being a rearguard action, one thing that you'll notice with these online movements is that this rearguard behavior, this arguing with feminists, tends to dominate. 1.00

00:07:30.400 The largest voices out there, the most popular voices out there, are engaged in a constant, meaningless battle.

00:07:38.680 And what you wind up with is both sides against the middle.

00:07:41.580 For example, take MRAs versus feminists. 1.00

00:07:45.200 One of the big points of contention between the men's rights activists and the feminists is on divorce and child custody. 0.98

00:07:55.100 They are fighting over this, and yet both of them assume the egalitarian narrative, which was used to destroy the nuclear family, which was used to destroy relations between the sexes.

00:08:06.200 So, up until now, we've had the feminists getting what they want. 1.00

00:08:10.440 No-fault divorce, presumed child custody going towards the woman, the maintenance payments towards the woman, even though she divorced for no reason, etc.

00:08:20.680 So, women have been empowered by the government. 0.82

00:08:24.240 Their power was given to them from somewhere else, from somebody else, at the expense of men. 0.81

00:08:29.840 The MRAs, meanwhile, are demanding more rights for men, but they're not demanding an elimination of egalitarianism.

00:08:37.220 What they wind up demanding, for the most part, is more government.

00:08:41.220 So, the solution, so some, the government came in and empowered feminists. 1.00

00:08:46.380 MRAs are now demanding that the government come empower them.

00:08:49.960 The end result, even if men wind up being better off, comparatively, the end result is more government and less autonomy.

00:08:58.700 Another example, the Gamer Cucks versus the SJWs.

00:09:02.320 Now, throughout Gamergate, we saw it initially.

00:09:05.300 Initially, it was opposed to the SJW infiltration of primarily the gaming media, but also the gaming industry.

00:09:13.340 Opposition to the SJWs trying to subvert what people want by inserting their narrative.

00:09:19.040 Then, it degraded into ethics in games journalism.

00:09:22.680 An autistic, if we can just have these rules, then everything will be okay. 1.00

00:09:27.260 Which is, of course, nonsense.

00:09:28.440 If you have rules, but no culture, then you have no rules at all.

00:09:32.580 Rules can always be subverted.

00:09:34.240 And then, finally, it degraded into the traditional values warriors, the people that have been fighting feminism long before Gamergate came around.

00:09:43.540 That these people are just as bad as the SJWs.

00:09:47.880 And so now, the Gamer Cucks and the SJWs, they post videos every single day. 1.00

00:09:53.700 There's a new video up, you know, this weak and stupid. 1.00

00:09:56.800 Or look at this stupid feminist, look at this. 1.00

00:09:59.400 And people watch the video, they, you know, donate to the Patreons, they get the advertising Benjamins from YouTube. 1.00

00:10:07.020 They make a nice hefty profit attacking this feminist. 1.00

00:10:10.420 Meanwhile, the feminists, they are working for major publications of their own. 0.98

00:10:14.660 And so they're getting paychecks to put out this ridiculous ideology.

00:10:19.140 And so you have both these sides fighting against each other, and yet nothing is being accomplished. 1.00

00:10:25.180 People come away from watching this weak and stupid, and they feel superior. 1.00

00:10:28.960 They feel that they're smarter than these feminists. 1.00

00:10:30.940 But the feminists are still receiving government grants to do artwork with period blood. 1.00

00:10:36.180 Nothing has changed.

00:10:37.600 You've wasted your time.

00:10:38.780 And there's a small number of people making a profit off of it, while everybody else is being distracted from the realities of what's going on behind the scenes.

00:10:48.560 I think it's worth considering Dwight D. Eisenhower, his speech on the military-industrial complex from 1961.

00:10:56.120 Three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment.

00:11:03.540 Now, this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.

00:11:11.960 The total influence, economic, political, even spiritual, is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government.

00:11:22.800 We recognize the imperative need for this development.

00:11:26.120 Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications.

00:11:32.180 Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved.

00:11:36.720 So is the very structure of our society.

00:11:40.080 In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

00:11:50.820 The core of what Eisenhower was getting at is that when military and industry become a complex, when they become inseparable from one another, meshed together,

00:12:01.480 you have this machine that's accountable to nobody, that wants war for the sake of war, and in fact never wants to win the war.

00:12:10.580 It wants an ongoing, low-intensity conflict for the sake of its profit, for the sake of its simple logic of how it operates.

00:12:19.480 The military-industrial complex isn't about winning wars, it's about constantly having a war, it's the logic of empire, and that is what we are seeing currently with this culture war.

00:12:33.180 Now, who is it, what sort of people, what sort of people have been on the bleeding edge of this for a long time now?

00:12:40.960 You know, who is on our side?

00:12:44.000 What sort of people are not engaged in the low-intensity culture war, but who is actually pushing the boundaries, pushing a new narrative?

00:12:53.500 Well, I'm just going to give you a few of them that stand out most significantly to me, because they're all friends of mine, and there's many more that you could point to.

00:13:01.940 But in particular, we've got Aaron Clary.

00:13:05.080 The man's a brilliant financier, you know, he worked in banking, and, you know, he told banks how they could make money, but nobody listened to him.

00:13:12.760 And he's since become a successful writer that drives around on his motorcycle, ballroom dancing, climbing mountains, and doing whatever he wants in life.

00:13:20.220 We've got Roosh V. You know, this guy was a microbiologist working in D.C., and he had a small game block until some feminists got a hold of him, outed him, got him fired from his job. 1.00

00:13:31.200 And so he went and completely reinvented his life as becoming a travel writer and a game guru.

00:13:38.580 And then, then he goes and completely reinvents that.

00:13:41.740 And now he's talking about sustaining Western civilization.

00:13:45.000 He's a very accomplished man who's done a lot with his life and is doing it successfully.

00:13:50.800 You've got Quintus Curtius.

00:13:52.460 Okay, this guy, he's an attorney, and he's an ex-Marine Corps officer, I believe.

00:13:58.480 You know, another accomplished individual.

00:14:00.600 Adam Piggott.

00:14:01.660 Globe-trotting adventurer and author.

00:14:04.420 You know, I did the audio book for Pushing Rubber Downhill.

00:14:07.540 Great book, great smack in the head to wake you up and just very entertaining.

00:14:11.600 Guy lives a successful life.

00:14:13.520 Vox Dei.

00:14:14.700 Author, game developer, countercultural organizer.

00:14:18.300 All these people.

00:14:19.920 And of course, you know, myself.

00:14:21.800 Seven years as an infantry soldier.

00:14:24.020 I've worked in industries I had no training for, but I've managed to master them.

00:14:28.620 I've done a lot with my life.

00:14:29.920 I've accomplished stuff.

00:14:30.920 And, you know, sending me a cheesy insult about skulls isn't going to hurt my feelings.

00:14:36.140 The sort of people that are on this bleeding edge who aren't engaged in the low-level conflict,

00:14:42.460 you know, the Gamergate conflict, the atheist cult conflict, the people that are actually

00:14:46.860 on the bleeding edge and have always been on the bleeding edge, are all accomplished

00:14:51.640 people in their own right.

00:14:53.660 The common themes, there's three points.

00:14:56.980 Three things that you can say about all these people.

00:14:58.980 First, the largest attitude is, get off my lawn.

00:15:03.020 You know, myself, all these guys.

00:15:05.480 We want to do our thing.

00:15:07.740 And we're not really interested in forcing anybody else to do our thing just because we like it.

00:15:12.860 To the extent that we're interested in society as a whole, it's because of the obvious

00:15:17.240 negative externalities that are being pushed.

00:15:20.140 You know, the current state of affairs that is pushing, it's destroying people and those

00:15:24.640 wrecked human beings wind up having a lot of negatives on our own lives.

00:15:29.600 But largely, it's an individualistic, how do I live a successful life?

00:15:34.200 How do I live the life I want to live?

00:15:36.680 Get off my lawn, leave me alone so I can do my own thing.

00:15:40.140 The second is, there's a lot of diversity of thought.

00:15:43.160 Okay, there's a lot of different people in these groups.

00:15:46.100 And there's a lot of disagreement on things.

00:15:48.740 And yet, our disagreements that we use to sharpen our own ideas, we're not hostile.

00:15:53.460 We don't all need to believe the exact same thing.

00:15:56.560 And finally, there's the accomplishment, I noted.

00:15:59.560 All of these people that are on the bleeding edge are accomplished human beings who don't

00:16:04.340 feel a need to prove themselves, who don't need the love and adoration of masses.

00:16:12.040 They're all happy with who they are already.

00:16:14.040 Now, let's consider the other side. 0.67

00:16:18.080 You know, both like the SJWs, the gamer cucks, and the anime Nazis. 0.95

00:16:22.840 Over there, we see narcissism. 0.94

00:16:26.420 We see egoism.

00:16:28.120 We see a desperate need of approval.

00:16:30.300 So if we contrast to the three points I laid out for our side, if you're even going to

00:16:35.360 call it a side, because we're really just all individuals that try and create good content,

00:16:40.220 that try and advance philosophical thought.

00:16:43.300 On their side, you see an emphasis of community over the individual.

00:16:48.120 Now, the strange creature known as QQ did a great video about this, on Gamergate specifically,

00:16:53.940 on how they feel compelled, there's this compulsion to take over every group.

00:17:00.900 Any group that doesn't conform, they exclude.

00:17:03.800 And that's what they did to GG Revolt, which was one of the last bastions of actual Gamergate

00:17:09.640 thought over on the chance.

00:17:11.620 They feel the need to either dominate it through their own policies, or exclude it.

00:17:17.220 So there's this sense of community.

00:17:19.240 You know, sort of like Hillary Clinton saying that it takes a village, ergo, the village is

00:17:23.140 going to be superior to the individual.

00:17:25.120 These people need to dominate every single thing they're a part of. 0.88

00:17:28.880 You know, whether it's Gamergate doing that, the gamer cucks taking over all of Gamergate,

00:17:33.340 or if it's the anime Nazis, who can't grow a full beard yet, but are saying who's right

00:17:39.240 wing and who isn't right wing, and trying to ban anybody that they don't like, or if

00:17:44.720 it's the SJWs, you know, getting you fired from your job for not adhering to their belief

00:17:48.960 system.

00:17:49.440 They all need to own the communities.

00:17:51.900 No free thought, no individualism.

00:17:55.640 The next is the conformity of thought.

00:17:59.400 Now, this is related to the community, okay, but this is more about how each individual

00:18:03.440 member behaves.

00:18:05.340 Every group, they need to affirm the belief system of the whole thing.

00:18:11.220 You need to be an atheist. 0.96

00:18:13.620 In fact, for all of these groups, they tend to embrace atheism or some sort of trite paganism.

00:18:19.380 You know, anybody that does not completely agree, they eject.

00:18:23.980 You are not allowed to question.

00:18:26.400 You're allowed to have a little pissy argument where your egos get in the way, but there's

00:18:30.820 no intellectual discussion going on whatsoever.

00:18:34.080 And finally, whereas we have a whole bunch of people that are actually accomplished in life, 0.99

00:18:39.540 these people, to a T, are losers.

00:18:43.640 These are people that have accomplished nothing in life. 0.98

00:18:46.740 All they have is their projected, idealized self, which they put on the internet.

00:18:52.420 You see, we have a generation of narcissists.

00:18:54.780 Okay, this entire generation, they have been denied any sense of accomplishment.

00:19:00.240 In this culture where everybody gets a trophy, nobody actually gets to determine, they don't

00:19:06.900 get to try and fail, and then try again and succeed.

00:19:10.400 When everybody gets a trophy, there is no accomplishment.

00:19:13.500 There is no self-respect.

00:19:15.940 They have nothing in their own lives they can look back on and say, yeah, I did that thing.

00:19:21.700 I accomplished something.

00:19:22.820 I know I've got some grit.

00:19:24.840 I've got some metal.

00:19:26.640 They have nothing. 1.00

00:19:27.820 They're losers. 1.00

00:19:29.180 Okay, they've skated by on their looks, on student loans, on the dole. 0.99

00:19:35.240 These people are no great thinkers, but they are desperate to be recognized as such.

00:19:41.720 It's the classic Facebook thing where people will go out in public, not for the sake of enjoying

00:19:48.760 themselves.

00:19:49.240 They will go out just so they can take photos of themselves and post it on Facebook, so they

00:19:54.400 have this externalized, idealized version of themselves, the public version of themselves,

00:20:00.700 where they're cool and popular and smart and better dressed, but their internal life is

00:20:06.480 completely void.

00:20:07.700 It's completely empty.

00:20:08.960 These are the people making up the bulk of the online movements.

00:20:14.140 And this is already, all on its own, this is a recipe for disaster.

00:20:18.780 This has been explored before.

00:20:20.220 Take the classic issue with democracy is concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.

00:20:28.120 You know, the classic example is activists versus entrepreneurs.

00:20:31.180 Entrepreneurs, okay, entrepreneurs are very, very busy running their own business.

00:20:35.940 They are so busy, they do not have much time to get involved with politics, whereas the activist 0.98

00:20:41.400 is a loser. 0.98

00:20:42.880 They have no job. 0.99

00:20:43.980 They have no accomplishments in life.

00:20:45.720 They're receiving public funding, whether it's through the university or through the dole

00:20:49.420 or some interested organization to go cause trouble.

00:20:52.180 And so the activist can always go and cause more trouble than the people that actually work

00:20:56.320 for a living because they're busy working.

00:20:58.800 We see it with Wikipedia, okay?

00:21:01.300 The SJWs have managed to dominate Wikipedia because they are obsessed.

00:21:05.920 They have nothing but free time and they have this strong compulsion, okay?

00:21:10.380 These people not only have free time, they have this compulsive need to be recognized because

00:21:16.840 they've never accomplished anything.

00:21:18.760 If you've accomplished something with your life, if you've been in the military, if you've

00:21:22.000 run a business, if you were on high school sports teams, whatever,

00:21:26.320 you don't feel this compulsive need for strangers on the internet to celebrate how smart you

00:21:31.540 are.

00:21:31.760 You know you're smart. 0.99

00:21:33.080 If you're a loser, however, you will work harder than the entrepreneur just to satiate 0.99

00:21:39.780 your ego. 0.99

00:21:42.380 Think of the salesman, the tragedy of the commons that you get in sales.

00:21:49.160 If you're a good, honest salesman that makes sure customers get the right product, that isn't

00:21:55.360 going to just shove whatever on the marketplace that actually cares, that actually thinks,

00:21:59.580 that actually works.

00:22:01.180 Absent a dominant culture that rewards good behavior and punishes bad, you are not going

00:22:07.240 to sell as much as the scam artist flimflam man, the guy that will shove anything and anything 0.95

00:22:14.060 on the customer for the sake of his commission.

00:22:16.740 So already, already, we have a major problem because a lot of people are narcissists.

00:22:23.400 Narcissism is the dominant trend in our culture right now.

00:22:27.860 And so the narcissist that goes online will be able to do things faster and easier and

00:22:33.640 get a larger audience than somebody that actually cares.

00:22:37.160 So already, we have a recipe for disaster here.

00:22:40.920 But it gets even worse.

00:22:44.260 It should be absolutely clear by now that there is a global conspiracy to keep the population

00:22:50.200 asleep and addicted. 0.88

00:22:52.880 They want you addicted to sex. 0.90

00:22:55.420 They want you addicted to consumerism, to manufacturing an identity by going and shopping at Hot Topic.

00:23:02.560 They want you reliant upon the government.

00:23:05.720 They want the government to regulate and delineate all your behaviors, governments and HR departments.

00:23:13.460 They want you to be desperate for mommy and daddy to tell you what to do and take care of you.

00:23:20.060 They want you irresponsible and juvenile.

00:23:24.260 There is a large regression towards an irresponsible teenager sort of behavior throughout our culture,

00:23:32.680 our media, our marketplace, all of it.

00:23:36.620 Look at the sort of movies that are popular.

00:23:38.720 Okay, grown adults are going to go see Marvel movies.

00:23:42.100 You know, look at it with the fashion industry. 0.96

00:23:45.280 You know, people are wearing utterly ugly overpriced clothing or they're dressed like bums. 1.00

00:23:52.300 And look at it with the media.

00:23:54.600 Okay, the media is there to make you feel intelligent as opposed to actually having you discipline yourself

00:24:00.500 to go learn what's going on.

00:24:03.120 Now, I say this is a conspiracy, but it isn't so much a formal conspiracy as a confluence of interests.

00:24:12.180 It's the logic of empire.

00:24:14.440 The people involved in this conspiracy, a lot of them hate one another.

00:24:18.360 Okay, we've got Saudi oil money in it.

00:24:20.540 We've got international corporations.

00:24:23.000 We've got socialists like George Soros.

00:24:25.740 We've got power brokers and bankers, and their tool is marketing.

00:24:32.220 Okay, marketing, where the technology of Edward Bernays, where you take the individual,

00:24:38.360 you do a psychological analysis, identifying what is missing in their lives.

00:24:43.000 And then you create a product, an external validation that addresses that sense of inadequacy.

00:24:49.460 So if it's a mother that is working, you know, you take the eggs out of the pancake batter, 1.00

00:24:55.620 so she has to put her own eggs in. 1.00

00:24:57.020 That validates her sense of, I'm not paying enough attention to my kids.

00:25:00.740 So instead of paying attention to her kids, she goes and puts eggs in the pancake batter. 0.87

00:25:05.180 If you've got people that feel they're not popular enough, that they're isolated,

00:25:08.640 that they have no community, that there's no extended family or church they belong to,

00:25:12.640 you tell them that buy a pair of Levi's and you'll be popular.

00:25:15.540 So they go and buy Levi's instead of developing meaningful relationships.

00:25:20.940 This is how our society is organized.

00:25:23.220 This is the social technology we are using.

00:25:25.560 We want people asleep, addicted.

00:25:28.680 We want them consuming.

00:25:30.460 We want them paying taxes. 0.96

00:25:32.440 There's no push to have a strong society.

00:25:35.280 Everybody should just be useful to the powers that be.

00:25:39.340 And because of this, because there's so much of a push to keep people juvenile, to keep

00:25:45.420 them asleep, there's a huge push to own the culture. 0.97

00:25:49.720 Okay, there's no secret of this anymore.

00:25:51.900 It's really coming out in this election that there's no money to be made in journalism.

00:25:56.760 Journalism, quad journalism, is not profitable.

00:26:00.040 It gets huge investment from these financial interests that want to keep people asleep.

00:26:05.380 And we've seen the paid trolls appearing here and there to sow dissension.

00:26:12.120 You know, whether it's Hillary paying people to try and start violence at Donald Trump rallies, 0.61

00:26:16.940 or if it's people pretending to be conservatives leaving anonymous comments attacking Donald

00:26:21.880 Trump, you know, or if it's as overt as the fact that most of the media is owned by a 0.89

00:26:26.740 very small number of people who have an agenda.

00:26:29.860 There is a huge amount of subversion of the message.

00:26:33.300 We also have Google, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, okay, the gatekeepers of information on the

00:26:39.180 internet.

00:26:40.040 These people are part of the same ideology.

00:26:43.000 And so if all of that's happening, what makes you think that they're not also trying to infiltrate

00:26:48.700 movements like Gamergate, like the alt-right, like the SJWs?

00:26:54.500 While we know the SJWs are bought and paid for, what makes you think they're not trying to

00:26:58.900 take over our sides as well?

00:27:00.660 Now, to be clear about something, I am not saying that the leaders of the Gamer Cucks,

00:27:07.840 you know, I am not saying that these people themselves are paid chills. 0.99

00:27:12.880 I don't think most, or if any of them are, they're useful idiots, okay? 1.00

00:27:17.720 They are narcissists desperately in need for approval who can easily be influenced. 1.00

00:27:23.220 It's the layer immediately below them.

00:27:26.620 It is the popular commenters, Twitter accounts, all of which are anonymous, but which are popular

00:27:33.720 and have the ear of these people at the top.

00:27:37.340 Okay?

00:27:37.600 The leaders of the Gamer Cucks, they just desperately want attention.

00:27:41.700 And so if you give them attention, if you're a prolific tweeter, you will have their ear. 1.00

00:27:45.480 And this, this, I believe, is why these same stupid insults are traversing boundaries that 1.00

00:27:54.340 they should not have traversed. 0.99

00:27:55.740 This is why the Gamer Cucks are embracing the exact same lines as the SJWs and as the anime

00:28:04.340 Nazis.

00:28:05.540 They're enemies.

00:28:06.260 And yet the people right below the surface, these are the paid shills.

00:28:12.160 They are the ones paid to disrupt the movements, to sow dissension, to feed into snark and egoism

00:28:20.460 and narcissism, so that these movements stay impotent, so that they stay as nothing more 1.00

00:28:27.120 than a bunch of morons slinging insults over the internet. 0.99

00:28:32.980 So what can we do to stop them? 1.00

00:28:34.900 How do we fight against this many-tentacled monster that has its tentacles into everything?

00:28:42.380 What are we supposed to do?

00:28:44.100 Well, take note of Tyler Durden's words in Fight Club.

00:28:47.820 Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived.

00:28:53.200 I see all this potential, and I see it squandering.

00:28:58.420 The middle children of history, man.

00:29:01.100 No purpose or place.

00:29:03.720 We have no great war, no great depression.

00:29:09.460 Our great war is a spiritual war.

00:29:11.360 How great depression is our lives.

00:29:16.840 This is a spiritual war.

00:29:20.180 They want us asleep.

00:29:21.600 They want us drugged up.

00:29:23.080 They want us addicted.

00:29:25.580 They want us to ignore what's going on.

00:29:27.440 The way we fight against that is by living righteous and successful lives, is by opening our eyes, tearing the scales from our eyes, seeing reality for what it is, and living in the best way possible.

00:29:42.960 Second, we need to realize that success comes through challenging your preconceptions.

00:29:50.840 Anybody that's successful is always looking for a critique.

00:29:54.080 They're always looking for somebody to tell them what they did wrong, what mistake they made.

00:29:58.520 Now, the great challenge is finding a critique worth listening to, because if you're trying to do anything new, everyone in Sundry will come and tell you you're doing it wrong.

00:30:05.360 But the actual successful person is always second-guessing themselves, always trying to figure out what they could have done better, versus constantly trying to affirm what you're already doing.

00:30:17.120 Don't seek out rationalizations for your mistakes.

00:30:20.500 So many people will do that.

00:30:21.800 They will rationalize their errors and blame it upon the world, blame it upon other people, what have you.

00:30:28.120 Instead, take control of yourself.

00:30:30.860 Challenge your preconceptions.

00:30:32.680 Expand your knowledge base.

00:30:34.300 Next, once you've done that, if you've challenged your ideas, and you have better ideas, next you take action.

00:30:43.520 You bootstrap yourself.

00:30:45.120 You engage in self-empowerment.

00:30:47.860 Not relying upon the government to take care of you.

00:30:50.600 Not relying upon others to give you agency.

00:30:53.960 But taking your own agency.

00:30:57.100 You take action, and you act with sincerity.

00:31:01.140 And once you begin acting in your own life, this will lead to acting with others.

00:31:08.660 And this is the final point.

00:31:09.920 Partly we do this through the philosophical, through political theory, through theology, reaffirming those ancient truths that have been forgotten.

00:31:28.820 We also do it through forming real-world tribes and communities.

00:31:35.040 So the way we fight them, we fight them by living righteously.

00:31:38.960 We do that by challenging our conceptions, then using those new ideas to go employ it in the real world.

00:31:46.140 Go live the change that we want to see.

00:31:48.420 And when we start living it, we start building that new society.

00:31:52.980 And I'd just like to finish this off by reminding all of you that we are the majority.

00:31:59.520 It doesn't seem like that sometimes.

00:32:01.540 Certainly not online.

00:32:03.580 It seems like we are constantly fighting against people who ought to be our allies.

00:32:08.620 And it's really frustrating.

00:32:11.040 All these groups would rather snipe at one another than align on what they agree upon.

00:32:19.860 Now, in my case, Gamergate is rather personal.

00:32:23.060 I certainly poured a lot of my heart and soul into that movie.

00:32:26.780 But, you know, Gamergate isn't the first time this has happened to me.

00:32:29.620 It's time and time again.

00:32:30.980 This is what happens to online movements.

00:32:32.900 You know, Matt Forney noted, we've lived through this several times before.

00:32:37.760 That something that was a great idea got taken over by the narcissists.

00:32:43.000 And in the online world, the narcissists and the swindlers, they prosper because they can never be held accountable.

00:32:50.800 The online YouTube star, they say what people want to hear.

00:32:56.040 They affirm people's preconceptions.

00:32:58.680 They affirm their delusions.

00:33:00.520 And they're hiding their own failures and pathology behind the carefully constructed online persona that they hold up. 0.96

00:33:09.700 If they tried doing what they do in real life, somebody would boff them in the nose for acting like the spoiled brat they are. 0.80

00:33:17.040 Online, they can get away with it.

00:33:18.840 Offline, they can't.

00:33:20.240 And in the offline world, people are far more receptive to the man who walks the talk.

00:33:28.420 So remember what Yoda said about the dark side.

00:33:32.420 Is the dark side stronger?

00:33:33.960 No.

00:33:34.660 No.

00:33:36.800 But the busier motion back in.

00:33:38.980 If you want to build an online empire, ego and snark are the way to do it.

00:33:44.600 You'll get 10,000 followers overnight if you go around insulting people and pretending to be smarter than other people.

00:33:50.860 But if you want to actually change the world, and not just get a whole bunch of pats on the back on the internet,

00:33:57.260 you need to settle in for the long haul.

00:34:00.180 Master the self, and you will master the world.

00:34:03.920 We are winning, folks.

00:34:05.480 We are the majority.

00:34:06.560 Don't get caught up in the petty fights over garbage, like two bums in an alley, which is the world of online activism. 0.81

00:34:36.560 The whole thing is ideal.

00:34:48.920 We are winning, there is nothing there.

00:34:49.720 There is blooming power in an alley.

00:34:50.600 And all time is الأwheeler.

00:34:51.720 The highest is a hitch.

00:34:52.600 Thank you so much.

00:34:53.180 We are winning, and we have joy.

00:34:53.800 Always effective.

00:34:54.380 Like the land, invest.

00:34:54.940 Sometimesation, early days are the biggest.

00:34:56.340 Sometimes these girls are celebrating ideas. 1.00

00:34:57.680 In the highest, chords go nuts.

00:34:58.800 It seems like this.

00:34:59.520 How well do this happen now?

00:35:00.080 It seems like this.

00:35:00.380 It seems like this already was all available,

00:35:02.500 and there is still one of those who realise the birds have now.

00:35:03.340 And there is no longer had to wait and get into the effort.

00:35:04.100 Why do they want to have a bigger Szmarag?

00:35:04.760 Because we all there is,

00:35:05.580 saying it's starting.

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - November 01, 2016

How Online Movements Are Infiltrated and Subverted

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