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[–] Inquisitioner 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
I'm still amazed that he managed to kill UKIP in just a few months. His shit midas touch holds incredible power.
[–] Gamio 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
If you take someone who isn't very intelligent but can read, write, speak, and listen then let them hear and read the ideas of some very clever people he can then repeat those ideas in his own writing and speaking. That person isn't intelligent enough to absorb it but they can repeat it, other not very smart people will crowd around and say "boy what a smarty this guy is" and never really look into the ideas themselves just what the original not very smart person is saying. Soon afterwards the not very intelligent person begins to think they are actually just as if not much smarter than the person whose ideas they are repeating so they begin to spice the idea with their own interpretations and spins on it only because they are basically a moron the original ideas they come up with are stupid, backwards, and drip with enough cognitive dissonance that you'd question how this person is able to walk, talk, and breath without a cheatsheet . Thats Sargon in a nut shell.
So he sees someone doing something good, like UKIP they had the good idea of keeping the far right out so that they wouldn't be called far right while being nationalistic and patriotic towards Britain, the British people and culture. What does Sargon do? Once he has the ear of the UKIP leadership he begins to plant the idea they should let in the very people labeled far right so they can have a massive broad appeal an appeal (of nearly 20%) they had until the Tori's said they'd hold an EU referendum which stole a lot of UKIP voters. The Liberalists, an already established movement of classical liberals that believe in a secularized democratic system of governance that puts the rights of the individual ahead of the collective gets Sargon taking the UK side of that and running it into the ground by dividing the movement into two factions, one based around YouTube and Reddit, the other Facebook (hes on the facebook side). He did this by pretending to oppose collectivism by unironically claiming to be a collective of individualists. There is more shit that came from the people he brought into that movement, lots of trannies and sexual deviants that changed it from a personal liberties group to a liberties of the group you identify with movement which basically poisoned the well, these are people that belong in the far left not the center but Sargon is so happy to call himself a center leftist that he and his cronies don't see the problem with having far left ideologies which would limit your speech if it "harmed" a collective which are incompatible with the ideologies they claim to champion (like free speech). Then there was the Skeptics, a clique of YouTubers after gamergate that ended up nose diving not only themselves but practically fucking everyone that uses any kind of social media because they (and sargon was one of those) had been touting a new social media platform owned and operated by a former Google higher up that was training a "hate speech bot" that Google then bought out which is where all of the flagging for hatespeech nonsense on YouTube is coming from.
He sees someone doing something he thinks he can use or be part of for his own gain or the gain of the people around him and he kills it, he kills it with his own stupidity because he can't think two steps ahead without imagining himself 25 steps ahead of everyone else. Whatever platform he goes to after Patreon will get grow in size while he tries to gatekeep it for the people he likes until the very same payment processor fuckers nuke it from orbit because hes a part of it and it will take everyone that uses it with them. For someone who claimed he studied ancient battles and battle tactics hes a strategic moron unable to act or react in a way that gives himself and whatever hes interested in at the time an advantage.
[–] Inquisitioner 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
You're probably right, but I'm not reading all that.
[–] jewsbadnews 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I missed that, how did he kill UKIP?
[–] Inquisitioner 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
UKIP made a push to increase it's online presence by bringing on people with online presence. It worked OK with Dankula (the nazi pug guy), but they really goofed with sargon. He became super arrogant, and in his arrogance declared war on an anonymous imageboard. He would ramble on about how he was 1 degree away from Trump because he shook hands with Farage. Naturally anons dug through his past to compile all his bad moments, and leveraged his newfound political presence to get several members of the British MSM to make articles highlighting Sargon's shit moments, most famously his "white niggers" rant. Shortly after, Nigel Farage spoke up about how he hated the new direction UKIP is taking, says the party doesn't even remember why it existed in the first place, and left UKIP, practically guaranteeing it's death.