Shadowstalker16: Criticism that is based on the quack science that what a person sees in media influences them to do bad things in real life is of course invalid criticism.
Vainamoinen: It's no use that you're reiterating this strawman, it's still a strawman, and you're ignoring science in the very same way Donald Trump ignores climate science. Cultivation theory is real, dude, but it never meant what you're insinuating it meant (see our 1,242 discussions on the subject plus those you had with others actually knowledgeable). You're also lumping in countless journalists and media critics with your standard falsification, which is just heinous. Look, I, unlike you, try not to view people as members of groups with a collective will and behaviour. I'm aware that a heap of former gamergate supporters have grown up in the meantime and educated themselves a whole bunch, particularly after their very own communicative weapon arsenal had handed the orange head the presidency, of course. That had an undeniably sobering effect from the obsession with one's own destructive power. The cult is dying, and it is dying because it has been so very senseless and silly to begin with.
The guy who uses terms like ''your people'' and ascribe political motivations to random people and groups accusing other people of strawmanning? That's probably the 2nd cutest evidence of some underlying mental illness I see on this forum after the multitude of edited ''nevermind'' posts.
Not that I knew what theory ''your people'' were using, but I checked it out and it is in fact BS. You should be ashamed of believing in such politically motivated theories, particularly when you are such an inquisitor when it comes to chastising others for what they believe in. There are even criticisms that the so called journos failed to address :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivation_theory#Criticisms And no, people didn't educate themselves, they just realised how far off the deep end you and ''your people'' on this forum went and don't see much value in talking to extremists who will hold on to a retarded theory for political reasons despite overwhelming evidence of it being witch-craft. So none of ''my people'' feel responsible for Trump winning nor see it as any kind of reason to stop arguing or believing what we believe (which in the case of this theory, is the truth). Just because ''we'' don't talk here doesn't mean ''we'' don't talk where you don't see ''us''.