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Leslie Jones: How Milo Yiannopoulos Weaponized A Ghostbusters Remake

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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What Did Milo Yiannopoulos Have to Do With Tech?

Sophie: Milo has a lot of appeal with exactly the kind of young men that Steve Bannon is looking to port as a resource and weaponize. He revels in being offensive and insulting people, just like a lot of gamers Like if you ever play video games, I'm not saying all gamers do this by a wide margin But that's certainly one of the cultural nuances of gamingis like You know, calling each other slurs and talking shit right? Sophie: So he actually did have some like bona fides in actual tech journalism but when he got to Breitbart his articles were about making fun of feminists or women or fat people It gets all very reactionary, right?

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