The dominoes extend all the way back to the discovery of fire.
climbing down from the trees was a mistake, and for that matter so was crawling out of the sea
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
“Discovery of agriculture”
I can actually pinpoint a more precise moment.
The 1986 sedition trial of members of The Order for trying to enact the Turner Diaries.
The feds raided a bunch of their compounds and seized a bunch of military hardware but what they did not seize was their computers. So they went underground and started communicating through early internet backchannels. Imagine 4chan but its purely boomer Nazis and KKK.
Also all but one of them was acquitted (by an all white jury of course) and the one that actually got convicted served no time.
Imagine 4chan but its purely boomer Nazis and KKK.
I think a lot of them went to 4chan and pol given how much they love the turner diaries.
They went to actual Stormfront, which got raided by 4chan, which caused Stormfront to raid them back, then some of the nazis discovered a new website with more traffic that would let them post anonymously.
Yeah my point was that shit started way earlier than most people realize. The early internet was full of the absolute worst shit.
Who?
Lowtax started Something Awful to host his “in character as Cranky Steve” mean reviews of bad Quake 2 custom maps, Moot created 4chan because he didn’t like the moderation of the anime subfourm on Something Awful, the smear article about Zoe Quinn making it to 4chan started gamergate, and I think everyone here is terminally online enough to take it from there.
🀱 small domino: disagreeing with “l337_dRaGoN_420” on gamefaqs
🀱 big domino: american fourth reich