My bad friend, been up for two days - mistakenly said Triquetra when I meant Valknut.
His name appears to be Jake Angeli. https://nativenewsonline.net/images/Jake_In_Capitol.png They are most certainly Celtic/Norse/Pagan/Whatever all over him.
Wouldn't be hard to set up a link filter to just outright block things that are repeatedly causing issues.
I'm down with no censorship, but there are clear avenues for our enemies to slander us or paint us in a bad light that need to be cut off.
Spot on analysis. Complete control is what they require to function.
Timing was wrong, but their hand was indeed forced at the start, then it appears to me like they lost control of their culture-war foot-soldiers who started going way too hard in areas that hadn't been subverted enough yet to accept their sweeping demands for change.
Like you, I've long been of the opinion that Tea Party, then soon after that the confusing mire that was OWS forced acceleration that lead to the harder push into casual culture. They found their feet quite well again soon after in many areas, but gamers resisted to a degree so severe even I didn't anticipate as one of them, that it forced them to dramatically overplay their hands. That event, in my opinion, is what prepared the meme army that was at the core of the online MAGA movement. Two solid years of fighting online had us sharp for when the same tricks started being played on Trump. I don't think places like The_Donald would have thrived like they did without that warmup round.
A lot of my perspective is probably just nostalgia and fog of war, not seeing the grander things in play, but I can't help but think one of our greatest assets in the last 6 years have been all the pissed off internet dwellers who were told their opinions were wrong and they didn't matter.
The left still have succeeded in shifting the overton window, however. The change I've seen in people I grew up with in the 90s who had the edgiest, most offensive humor imaginable are now completely spineless, afraid to offend anyone leftists drones. It's remarkable just how well they shifted culture in their favor, simply with consistent propaganda. It all seems so obvious to me, but to those that never participated in any of these 'battles', it works incredibly well.
Absolutely this.
They buried their filthy SJW fem-dicks into videogames, blew their entire load early by screeching 'Gamers are dead!' in unison, and awakened a terrifying beast that directly lead to election of GEOTUS Donald J Trump.
Nothing could be sweeter.
That said, short beardy dude with him seems far more sketchy to me for some reason. Viking lad just seems like an overzealous larp.