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Chapo Trap House - Paradox Map Games and Right-Wing Culture (feat. Ettingermentum)
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I can't help but feel like stuff like this is reacting to noise in the data. Like, if Paradox games didn't exist, the people who form this particular right wing subculture would just be in a different right wing subculture. The primary drivers of people to right wing thought are the same as they've always been, and this is just a highly localized expression of that drive.
The Chapo analysis wasn't that Paradox breeds rw ideology, it is that it is attractive to people of all fringe ideologies, and that it has been clearly influential on the current zoomers on the White House Staff.