I was playing a huge amount of Planetside 2 back in '13. I was vaguely in the Reddit TEST/Goonswarm alliance on Vanu (purple space communists). The TR faction (Red space fascists) was dominated by a clan called The Enclave, after the fascist genocidal US government in Fallout 2 and 3. The Enclave accepted open racism and bigotry and had some proto-neo nazis in it. Their leader had kind of a cult of personality as a proto-joker figure. Looking back it was obvious that he was creating a space for what would become the alt-right to incubate. It's kind of fascinating looking back because the 2013 Planetside scene turned out to be a snapshot of what politics would become over the next ten years.
I was playing a huge amount of Planetside 2 back in '13. I was vaguely in the Reddit TEST/Goonswarm alliance on Vanu (purple space communists). The TR faction (Red space fascists) was dominated by a clan called The Enclave, after the fascist genocidal US government in Fallout 2 and 3. The Enclave accepted open racism and bigotry and had some proto-neo nazis in it. Their leader had kind of a cult of personality as a proto-joker figure. Looking back it was obvious that he was creating a space for what would become the alt-right to incubate. It's kind of fascinating looking back because the 2013 Planetside scene turned out to be a snapshot of what politics would become over the next ten years.