Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate

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Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi Says He Was Radicalized by Gamergate
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The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.

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I guess this fear media is like a drug. Makes people go cyber psycho.

I remember when it was dungeons and dragons that was making people eat babies and stuff.

Yeps I remember the tail end of that. Being warned that I would disappear into steam tunnels from playing dungeons and dragons. Just about everything was Satanic. Men wearing an earring, a bandanna used as a sweatband, Halloween, cans of pop ring necklaces...

Yes kids the theists were always like this.

This is not comparable at all. Radicalisation through the media you consume is a known and proven phenomenon. None of the comics, d&d, heavy metal makes you satanic and violent claims have ever been proven.

"cyber psycho" really sounds like straight from a cyberpunk apocalyptic scenario

It kind of is. It’s from the game Cyberpunk. Less apocalyptic, more dystopian.