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Jun 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Sam is right. The campaign was bragging about a million tickets. The venue seats 19,000, so even if TikTokers and K-Pop fans signed up for 90% of those free, unlimited tickets, a crowd 5x the venue’s capacity should’ve been jostling for a seat. Something here doesn’t add up.
Blood red OK should’ve had no problem filling that arena to the brim, so how do a million signups translate into a hair over 6,000 people actually showing up? I’m thinking Parscale lied about the number of signups as even die hard Republicans are getting sick and tired of Trump.
No sane campaign manager looks at a million signups for an event with a 25K person capacity (with overflow) and thinks “yup, this is totes legit, let me go brag about it on social media!” So the real question is if he lied to keep scamming Trump, or because he’s incompetent.
If it’s the latter, he should be fired. If it’s the former, he should be in jail for fraud and embezzlement. I’ll let the @ProjectLincoln expand on that...
Just to put the insane numbers Parscale threw out in perspective, consider that the population of Tulsa is 400K and the city has 17K hotel rooms. Even if every adult in the Tulsa metro area showed up, and every hotel room was booked for the rally, the math still wouldn't add up.

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Jun 3, 2023
From The Atlantic's profile of Licht comes this gem, one screamed at us by pundits and media executives since the Tea Party uprising of 2009. It seems impossible to explain to them that we heard all these views a million times and simply do not like them. Yes. As a country. 🧵 Image
Like the annoying devil's advocate at a dinner party, they keep telling us "no, see, if you really heard them, then you'd understand." Well, we did hear them. We are force fed right wing outrage, temper tantrums, and increasingly histrionic, nihilistic GOP talking heads 27/7/365.
It is impossible to live in America and not have to hear right wing views or get 10K word, soft focus profiles of rural Republicans. And here's the kicker. Their views are statistically despised by between 2 in 3 and 3 in 4 of us, according to numerous public opinion polls.
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Mar 28, 2023
Because Matt is an Extremely Online Centrist Opinion-Haver, he raises an interesting question and answers it with the equivalent of a wet fart. But there is a good reason why Millennials are a bit better adjusted: our lives weren’t dominated by social media and culture wars.
Let’s make no mistake, the current coterie of vile monsters like Gingrich, McConnell, and Hastert were turning national politics into an absolute shitshow and culture wars were well underway. But they weren’t front and center in literally everything on the news. Politics were …
… still pretty damn boring, and the GOP still hadn’t completely lost their minds and descended into retrograde reactionary insanity. Social media was just starting out and you frequently talked to and met people in your age group, with no one caring about what you did online.
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Nov 14, 2022
Microservices are a critical for scaling any cloud native platform. Turning off almost all of them means you're either shutting off actual features or redundancy and failover capabilities which allow Twitter to handle billions of requests per hour. This is a very stupid idea. 🧵
If all of Twitter was one service, it would have horrific memory and CPU needs, costing absurd sums to set up and maintain. Breaking it up into logical modules that can run independently, or microservices, means you can automatically spin up enough instances to handle requests.
So I'm thinking that Elon was looking at a diagram, saw a bunch of services he didn't understand, decided they were unnecessary because he assumes Twitter's employees are incompetent and make mostly useless crap, and gave the order to start shutting them off "to speed things up."
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Apr 4, 2022
Ah, the Russian trolls found this tweet. You can tell it’s a troll farm from the lazy drive-by rehashes of the same two of talking points from Channel One: any critic of Putin’s little empire of fascist thugs is a Nazi, and everything bad is a false flag by Ukrainians and Jews.
If they sound an awful lot like the Trumpglodytes who want to know where Obama was during 9/11 and that Trump actually took out bin Laden, it's because they are. They're allowed to wallow in their rage and fear without learning, without growing, without having to adapt to change.
Russia is what happens when they have unlimited and unrestrained power. You get a nation with no values or morals or goals beyond satiating the greed of its elites and the bloodlust of its worst citizens. A nation where cheating is expected and genocide is totally justified.
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Mar 3, 2022
THREAD: It physically pains me to say this, but your least favorite neoliberal pundit is right. NATO can’t get directly involved in Ukraine baring a direct attack on a member state. It's not even about nukes, it's about not protracting and escalating the war globally. Here's why.
Russia has labeled any anti-war sentiment treason, is jailing children for laying flowers for killed Ukrainians in public, and using the FSB to harass "foreign sympathizers," the final step in becoming a textbook fascist dictatorship. This is deeply disturbing to may Russians.
Putin has effectively made their country exactly what they were always taught to fear and hate, given that he supported numerous neo-Nazis and far right groups across the world, becoming 21st century fascism's and right wing terrorism's top sugar daddy. news.yahoo.com/us-intelligenc…
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Mar 1, 2022
Why does Ukraine matter? If Russia is allowed to violently annex Ukraine, it means big nuclear states can now simply decide another country should not exist and invade it without consequences. Cue runaway nuclear proliferation and MAD that will make the Cold War look like a joke.
Everyone will want nukes now that they're less of an insurance policy but a basic requirement for your state to exist. Nuclear armed Canada, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Turkey, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia will suddenly become inevitable, and every skirmish means nukes could be fired.
And remember, this is not the 1950s, when nuclear weapons were too complex and obscure for anyone but a superpower. They're so well understood, you can learn about every facet of a thermonuclear warhead's design on Wikipedia. Canada and Germany could have nukes in six months.
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