Gamergate leader arrested

[47of74]

Some good news

One of Gamergate’s most notorious harassers has been arrested and charged with two felonious accounts of assaulting a police officer. Depending on how prosecutors proceed, 30-year-old Virginian Ethan Ralph could face up to five years in prison.

Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity. Ralph is one of the rare exceptions, running the fringe blog “Ralph Retort.” Much of Gamergate’s reputation for spreading private information about feminists in an attempt to intimidate them is due to Ralph’s actions.

According to reports from the Loudoun County Sheriff, Ralph was found drunk and passed out next to the Executive Conference and Training Center near Dulles International Airport. Police were called to the scene, where they attempted to awaken him while passed out in a nearby hotel lobby.

This is where things reportedly turned violent between law enforcement and Ethan Ralph, who allegedly assaulted a deputy. He was immediately arrested and charged. In addition to two counts of felonious assault on a law enforcement officer, Ralph faces additional charges of obstruction of justice.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Hang him.....figuratively, of course...

but he deserves far more than 5 years in stir.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. But he seemed like an upstanding young man.

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I'm shocked. Still processing.

[gratuitous]

21. I know!

Hard to believe that he'd be a mean drunk. Or a mean sober.

[StrictlyRockers]

25. Neckbeard did what?

Crawl back in your mother's basement, you troll.

[mercuryblues]

3. I read it as

30 year old virgin Ethan Ralph.

[sarae]

6. hah! And you probably wouldn't be wrong...

[PersonNumber503602]

18. Hahahahaha you did too?

I just posted my comment saying that same thing. Great minds... or at least that's how I'll take it.

[okaawhatever]

4. This guy is absolutely evil. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if he's an alcoholic. I hope they throw

the book at him.

[duncang]

5. Is he part of the dipshit donnie campaign?

Sounds like a good fit to me.

[FSogol]

8. That was my thought. One less Trump voter.

[Loki Liesmith]

7. Ralph don't lead nothing

[Eleanors38]

31. He can't. No one follows someone who is shit-in-the-pants drunk. Phew!

[snooper2]

9. oh jesus b. christ on a duck stupid people are still using this "alt-right" term...

fucking people

[MicaelS]

11. What's stupid about it?

That is what they self-identify as.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Call it what you will.

Honestly, the term "alt-right" is the least bothersome thing about the ideology, other than the fact it makes them sound like they are just conservatives who like 1990s era rock music.

[Lordquinton]

14. It's a PC term for hate group

It'll pass and they'll call it some other term. At least they are being identified as one thing so they can't hide behind ambiguity.

[meow2u3]

16. Alt-right is actually a PC term for a domestic terrorist organization

Neo-Nazis, KKK, organized misogyny groups, antigovernment seditionists, etc. They're essentially sleeper terrorist cells.

[StrictlyRockers]

26. This

"Alt-right" is the polite term for racist scumbag.

[meow2u3]

27. That, too

[Lordquinton]

28. That too

It's good there's a catch-all for them now, just wish it weren't so cozy sounding.

[uponit7771]

32. +1

[LisaM]

19. Ummm....what's wrong with the term alt-right?

It's a good term for nailing down people who have current hate agendas, and I like it because it's an umbrella term that includes Gamergate types.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. Given that it associates extremist leanings and behavior with a catagory of the political right.....

....I'd take it as a gift, not a curse.

[snooper2]

23. sounds like a little pet name for a bunch of fucking assholes

[LisaM]

29. Let me re-phrase. I am not asking what's WRONG with the alt-right

I'm wondering why we can't use what seems to me like an apt term.

[They_Live]

39. You mean "Republicans" ?

[LanternWaste]

22. That seems an irrelevance to focus on.

That seems an irrelevance to focus on. No doubt, many may feel it's a necessary irrelevance to better steer one's own narrative away from the topic of actual relevance.

[backscatter712]

10. He's finding out it's not wise to assault a police officer.

He's likely to spend close to a full year in the can for that.

[ncjustice80]

15. They need to max out his sentence for what he has done. n/t

[Odin2005]

41. These types don't understand that actions have consequences...

...because they have been allowed to get away will harassing people for so long.

[DonCoquixote]

13. the very fact he felt free to email her from JAIL

should be enough to show that this person has NO remorse and is a threat. Any Lawyer fresh from the Law school will tell their clients to "STFU for God's sake."

[PersonNumber503602]

17. "30-year-old virgin Ethan Ralph could face up to five years in prison. "

That might be uncalled for and out of line (am I supposed to hyphenate that?)

I'm not sure about either of those questions.

[MohRokTah]

24. This is great news! eom

[Initech]

30. Good news everyone!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

34. This guy openly identified with the alt-right, and was a central figure during Gamergate.

Alt-right hero Milo Yiannopolous was also front and center during Gamergate.

[Loki Liesmith]

36. not quite

Milo jumped on board after it had blown up...

He criticized gamers as basement-dwelling baboons before he figured he could milk some fame from them by publishing some leaked transcripts from the GameJournoPros mailing list showing some kind of weaksauce collusion or something...

[Odin2005]

42. What did our resident Gamergate apologist say?

[Oneironaut]

37. Ok - I kind of feel sorry for him.

I wonder if he says bizarre things for attention because he has issues? I think many MRA types latch on because it feels like they're part of something. They can finally blame their failures with women and with life in general on someone else.

[smirkymonkey]

38. Bwahahahah! Good!

[Odin2005]

40. Good, maybe those morons start learning that actions have consequences.