Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?

Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by zahlman on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:30PM (#49224491)

> a big part of it is just how incredibly toxic the web has become.... Like what [person in my ideological group] did [allegedly, with no explanation or description] with [thing that happened online]... [this comment made online]

I see.

You complain of astroturfing, but you seem unaware of things that you have come to believe because of it.

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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by marginalia_nu on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:41PM (#49224604)

Steve Bannon's involvement in promoting Gamer Gate and co-opting it into a (what would become MAGA) recruitment funnel is fairly well documented[1]. There's absolutely nothing "allegedly" about it, he proudly spells it out himself[2].

Everyone is running this playbook now. The far left, the alt right, IS, Hamas, IDF. Russia was an early player in the space too but seems to have lost a lot of that ability when Prigozhin fell out of a window.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gamergate-campaign

[2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/st...

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