Dispatches from the MindWar

@gal_suburban and I discuss the Harry Potter-like world of doomsday Christian fundamentalism. We focus on dispensationalism which is a belief system that treats the Old Testament as a literal guide to the future.

How GamerGate trained a generation to torment people online — including me.

I discuss undue influence aka brainwashing — how people are recruited, indoctrinated and traumatized online.

We cover a lot of ground. Trolls, malignant narcissism and the process of radicalization. Also Miley Cyrus and UFC.

Manuel Chavez III aka Defango claims that Justin McConney, who worked in the Trump Administration, started QAnon.

Instead of an interview with Manny Chavez aka Defango I’m providing you with this rant instead. There is more than the usual amount of cussing.

“I am the happiest motherfucker on the planet.”—Heidi Cuda

My dear friend High Fidelity joins me to talk about the dark underbelly of the internet through the last 20 years. Something Awful, 4chan, Anonymous, 8chan and how both of us ended up as pissed off Twitter exiles.