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Bernie Sanders' Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas (vice.com)
Wagner James Au, writing for Motherboard (edited and condensed):As Donald Trump continues to ride roughshod over much of the United States, there are multiple reports that Trumps' virtual fans are riding roughshod on Bernie Sanders' unofficial headquarters in Second Life as well. Sanders' spot is in the sim (Second Life region) of Caspoli, with a Bernie 2016 banner that can be seen from satellite. It's a Roman-themed hangout space in a peaceful meadow, where Bernie supporters often gather to share news of their favorite candidate. But lately, the place has been besieged by pro-Trump griefers. [...] During a Bernie rally in Second Life, Sanders support group member Macaria Wind goes on, Trump-supporting demons flew around Bernie's rally, endlessly typing "TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!" into text chat.
Sounds like something Bernie would do for sympathy.
who knew?
It's somewhat comforting to know that nothing has changed in ten years. :)
Politics in the 21st century, folks. It's only going to get weirder.
Swastikas sound just a tad suspicious, innit?
Even Drumpf supporters aren't dense enough to think this is a good idea.
Build a wall to block him out. Oh, the irony.
Trolls still exist in online media. Film at 11.
However, to put it in perspective...
Second lifers get griefed by Trump folks
Meanwhile, in real life, Berners get violent and try to suppress the first amendment rights at Trump Rallies.
Which is worse?
There are two things I find unlikely about this story.
1. That Second Life is still a thing.
2. That these are actual Trump supporters.
It's just trolls getting a two-for-one deal. They get to disrupt the Bernie supporters while at the same time painting Trump supporters in a bad(worse?) light.
Having just re-read Ready Player One not too long ago, I began to take stock of the things that I could see developing in the not-distant future of the ever-present online society and then comparing them to their OASIS counter-parts. Every now and again you see something as ridiculous as this, and you realize that if the technology was just that little tiny bit better, it wouldn't be science fiction after that.
Oh yea, that second life guy. The one who is desperate for it to stay relevant and probably did this himself so he could write a blog post about it. That guy.
How much do you wanna bet that any swastikas are made by Bernie's people just so they can blame evil Trump supports.
Are we sure that all of this wasn't a PR stunt designed to let people know that Second Life is still a thing that apparently still exists?
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Swastikas?
Dear libtards, try not be be so obvious.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Yeah right.
Probably Bernie supporters.
When did shit that people do in a video game become news?
I'm sorry, you accidentally quoted Metapedia and expected to be taken seriously.
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What I want to know is why /. is wasting our time with such a stupid submission.
Come on! As I look through the Firehose, I see numerous stories far more relevant, interesting and newsworthy than this pathetic one is.
And don't suggest that I submit stories. I tried that, and they must have been too relevant or something (they had to do with computing), because they ended up silently discarded. I'm not going to waste my time doing that again!
Editors, can we please avoid these pointless political submissions? Yeah, they generate a lot of comments, but they're typically useless comments. They're a lot like YouTube comments or Twitter tweets; they're voluminous but extremely low-quality comments. They're far more harmful to Slashdot than they are beneficial.
This news should be on a 2nd life newspaper and commented on 2nd life slashdot. This is like saying that a player nicknamed trump got headshoted on a csgo game...
Oh, it's not that bad.
Demons flying overhead with Trump banners? The summary made the mental imagery absolutely hilarious.
I never new Sanders' group had a virtual presence like that. Anyone check on what 4chan's b-tards were up to at the time? This sounds like their style.
"As Donald Trump continues to ride roughshod over much of the United States..."
Sorry? I thought that voters were choosing him democratically?
I forgot that, for Slashdot readers, anything they disagree with is automatically evil...
Bernie Sanders must be so happy about this. This is awesome publicity for his campaign plus it looks horrible for this Trumpf person. Win-win.
I didn't think Trump supporters were smart enough to know of or use Second Life!
*ducks
Only kidding! But seriously folks...
I felt the Bern once. A quick trip to the doctor and a round of antibiotics fixed it right up. Seriously, don't go near the strippers...they nasty.
Support your local school shooter, give them your firearms.
Nah, I'm sure he goes there for all his neo-nazi slanted ideas.
Am I old, or do most young people find this fucking ridiculous, too?
Nope, no sig
I can see Palpatine (VI of course) urging the fall of slashdot to the dark side. The fall to tabloid journalism is well underway.
They are among the most vile scum there is.
Sounds like the things anti-Trump people have been doing in real life
No Trump supporter would associate Trumps campaign with a swastika. That would hurt Trump's campaign. The same goes for anyone attempting a false flag attack.
Instead, this was done by people satirizing Trump supporters as brash bullies and mocking Trump's rhetoric as Nazi-reminiscent.
It's not a hard distinction to understand, but apparently the article's author had some difficulty making the connection.
That was funny!
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I don't respect Drumpf or any part of his campaign but I have yet to see a Drumpf supporter embrace a swastika as a symbol of their campaign. They might not be the sharpest tools in the shed but even they know better than to venture down that road...
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
"As Donald Trump continues to ride roughshod over much of the United States,"
There's nothing like opening up with a preamble showing your bias..
but I can't see how this is stuff that matters.
I bet the precious little snowflakes were triggered
Many of the Bernie supporters spend a lot of time with computers and on the internets.
Expect more and more association by guilt. I will not be voting for Trump (I will not be voting for anyone, as a matter of principle), but trying to tie Trump is with nazis is absurd.
I am also getting sense, that anyone who is perceived as Trump leaning gets zero pointed here /. pronto.
Your literal-minded style of contrarian argumentation is symptomatic of an underlying mental illness.
I'm pretty sure, a pardon can not be issued before conviction (and sentencing) — quite a bit more seconds will last between a indictment and that.
In fact, one suspects, Obama is throttling the FBI now to ensure, the conviction happens after the President's time in office so that he wouldn't be in the unfortunate position of having — out of party collegiality — to pardon a crook she despises.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
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Did the last person out of second life forget to pull out the plug?
loud-mouths attract loud-mouths, and knuckle-draggers attract knuckle-draggers. Combine all three, and you have the shitfest that is Tronald Dump's campaign.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Anybody who still thinks Second Life matters, really, really, REALLY needs to get a first life!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
What stopped, very dramatically, was the blogging and reblogging and general hyping up of SecondLife. That shrank to zero.
But SecondLife itself continued doing what it always did, which is to provide a VR world outside of gaming. (Lots of folks experimented with games in SecondLife too, but it never really succeeded because the implementation was just too laggy and the controls too clunky.)
It's still there, and with VR coming around again, the bloggers might start doing their thing once more. But SecondLife doesn't really need them. It lives in its own reality, and its users like what it gives them, including a lot of academics using it for immersive simulations.
SRSLY? Trolls love seeing reactions, or seeing something about themselves.
Trolling, beyond joking around with friends, is all about being a dick. Sadly, there are more dicks around the world than a strict male/female population count would indicate.
Here's the rundown.
Who stands to gain from such an action? I think Hillary Clinton is the only real answer. She's already gearing up for Trump and I'm sure this isn't the last time that you'll see acts like this being committed by bands of her more extreme followers. It's only a matter of time before some rogue Trump group pulls the same and spray paints Dalek images everywhere to remind us of Hillary's terrifying way of interacting with humans.
Is he black, or white, now?
As Ford so often consoled himself, accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. I wouldn't be sure that, if offered, a pardon would be accepted. If it were offered and accepted, I am quite sure that the Republicans would be delighted to hang her in the court of public opinion for being guilty of a felony, pardon or no. Which is not to say that she would not deserve that; I don't think there are many Americans who would for a moment accept electing a known criminal to the Presidency, but her political opponents are ready to seize upon the breath of an indictment, and a pardon would be playing into their hands.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
In a political context, "false flag" is different from its normal meaning of recruiting unwitting double agents; it means slandering your opposition by associating them with something disagreeable. As a result, a false flag attack on Trump would be people waving swastikas at his rallies, and a similar attack on Bernie would be people waving Soviet flags or something.
Yeah, I don't think that Swastika Trump logo flag is pro-Trump, looks more like 4chan messing around. No doubt next it'll be invaded by flying penises and afroguys chanting "Pool's closed due to AIDS".
It might be some Trump supporter, or it could just be a chaosmonger. Some people will do shit like that because they like to see people get riled up over something they've done.
There's been dirty tricks by "Clinton supporters" against Sanders social media. Likewise utterly meaningless. The truth is that except on-line there's not a lot of difference between Sanders and Clinton supporters, except Sanders supporters tend to be younger. Could be an oddball Clinton supporter, must just as likely it's just a plain oddball.
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According to Metapedia, Jews started WWII. Check the article on NSDAP. No citation, no explanation, but Jews did it. Learn something new every day...
..this never ends up as one of those many cases of life imitating art.
Is there any doubt at all in the minds of sane people that 100% of White Supremacists and neo-Nazis who actually intend to vote in the coming US federal election will cast their vote for a Republican?
This certainly shortens the list of suspects in this situation.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Some Sanders supporters desperately need to turn off their computers and go outside for some fresh air.
No. No, there's no charge for this bit of advice. It's completely free. No need to thank me. And you're welcome.
When is Second Life going to work in Oculus Rift????
I was just thinking the other day, it's been a while since /. had a Second Life story. Back in the day they had something every day it seemed like. I'm not sure if they were getting paid or it was click fodder.
If they had been trolled by flying dildoes, they'd have written it off as a normal troll attack.
Metaphorically at least.
...the New York Daily News article is by Shaun King, and that is what I was referring to: http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
Was it or was it not a pro-Nazi gesture?
I'm so virtually offended. I need a virtual safe space.
Trump is not some aberration, he's the next logical step in the evolution of the current GOP coalition.
Yeah the Trump swastikas suggest that its probably the patriotic nigras /b/tards.
Unless its genuine, in which case, uh, get your shit together America.
But its almost certainly just adolecents having fun trolling the true believers.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
Does ANYBODY honestly believe that a bunch of Trump supporters even know what second life IS???? His base is middle-aged and older blue collar workers.
Additionally, Trump supporters would never associate his name with swastikas, first because most are patriotic Americans drawn to his "Make America Great Again" stuff (many are US veterans), and second because the swastika is one of the most vile symbols on the planet. Even if you assume there were some extreme racist freaks among his supporters they''d want to keep the public from knowing it, not be boldly waving it about on the internet where the press and his enemies could use it to attack him.
There ARE however some tech-savvy second-life-aware people who brag about how well they use all aspect of the internet and who get a triple benefit from this activity while losing nothing: Hillary supporters.
1. It makes Trump supporters look like NAZI monsters
2. It trolls and harrasses Bernie supporters
3. It makes Bernie supporters hate Trump, who will be the only viable anti-DC corruption candidate in the fall, so they are more likely to help Hillary against Trump
Someone's still using Second Life?
I think they need to get a First Life.....
It's the same reason that those people supported Mitt Romney after his 47% statement: issue overlap. When a candidate promises something that a special interest group is also concerned in, they may support that candidate even if the rest of his platform clashes with theirs. By the same token, a lot of Stormfront got excited about Helen Thomas.
First, it's important to mention that you still have not shown that the lady giving the Nazi salute was not doing so ironically, as she claims she was. Second, let's look at that Fortune article. Most of it is based on the use of a hashtag, #whitegenocide, which is not exclusive to white nationalists and neo-Nazis. He retweeted two of their tweets and many of them follow him. However, this is bad logic. Many of them follow a number of people who write on topics of interest, including Jonathan Haidt, Stephen Pinker and Nicholas Taleb. Further, Trump has retweeted a number of people on the outer right, probably because these were already trending among a mixed audience of right-wingers and others. So, I'm sorry I read the Fortune article; it was devoid of information of relevance.
This election season, man... It's a wild ride. It'd be funnier if it wasn't actually really important.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
Who knew?
How exactly does a swastika support Trump? A swastika is an image, it doesn't have a brain or anything, so isn't capable of making decisions or supporting campaigns.
Was the woman at the Trump rally giving a Nazi salute in a pro-Nazi context? She says no, you duck the question. That's really all we need to know here.
I don't believe these are Trump supporters. They're probably Bernie supporters, or Hilary supporters.
He got access in his first two years, and then had no chance of improving the ACA for six. A Democratic president with at Democratic congress could actually change it in a meaningful way.
Reid and Pelosi got exactly the bill they wanted, with no Republican input whatsoever (they shut the GOP -- also anyone actually in the health care field -- out of the process entirely) and without a single Republican vote.
They may not have intended these results. But if not, that's a matter of incompetence. They are the inevitable results of what they rammed through.
A real Nazi would keep it quiet, then seize power.