So you missed a chapter. The defense of Trump and his party was (as very often with him) a putinesque "I didn't do that, YOU did that", accusing the democrats of collusion with Russia and claiming Putin was trying (and wishing) to have her elected.

Again, you don't understand what projection is about. It's perceiving or accusing others of things that you are doing or feeling yourself. Accusing a group of people of being nazis when they hold fascist values (ethnic purity, virilism, personality cult, apology of violence, militarism, nationalism, authoritarianism, etc) is one thing. Accusing a group of people to be nazis when you start an ethnic conquest war on them full with deportations, racist rhetorics and civilian targets is beyond irony, it's "I am not that because I accused you first" political rhetorics.

Projection is when you dishonestly accuse or honestly suspect people of some evil deed because you have (consciously or unconsciously) this deed's intent in you. It's a psychological self-legitimation mechanism, or a source of paranoia ("people are as evil as me, so I shouldn't trust them"), or a tool of rhetorical sideration ("they think this is bad, they're clearly sensitive about it, so let's throw the accusation at them and watch them deny it all confused and offended, while I personally do it without second thoughts"). It can be an efficient tool when someone considers, for instance, racism to be a source of shame : if you're proudly racist, you can deflect the accusation back to someone who'd be genuinely embarrassed by a racist bias, and carry on while they're on the defensive. Pushed farther, it's a convenient reversal that helps rationalize your actions. Robbing people while accusing them of being thieves. Lying to people while accusing them of being liars. It take a heavy dose of cynicism or a strong lack of self-awareness. Or both, when it's political propaganda.

It's different from hyperbolic accusations, and more sinister. And when your Putin claims that the world intends to dismantle Russia, all while he tries to obliterate Ukraine, this seemingly childish inversion of intents is a very calculated manipulation. It works, because it "exorcises", "projects outside", the guilt that threatens the culprits and accomplices.

And this is absent of your so-called "SWJs" playbook, who are not trying to erase the representation of a group of humans, or are not trying to legitimize their sexual violence while denouncing it in general.

As I said, this is the whole thread from the get-go. The root of it is "oh noes, ecological and social concerns, this is bad, how dare they". GOG -very possibly for pure commercial reasons- takes a political stance, which offends a category of gamers. They should or shouldn't be allowed to react. But if this thread exist, their reaction will stem counter-reactions.

I'm quite in favor of this thread not existing. I'm not in favor of this thread being a simple display of community antagonism to the values that CD Projekt proclaims. This community has looked like an ideological cesspool for long enough.