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29 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Even beyond the momentous election that is now underway, if the American Right does not create uncancellable media ASAP it does not have long to live.
Citizen app gives a peek but this is now full media blackout on Twitter and Twitch:

Explosive Devices Found in Vehicle (Logan Square, Philadelphia) 📲 Live on @CitizenBreakingPHL go.citizen.com/V9lp2SXjYab
This was last night. But live feeds now being banned are cutting off our view of what has, is, and will happen:
Without live feeds how will we see the full extent of what happens tonight in places like DC? Who will report it tomorrow except for the brave independent journalists on Twatter? And how long before they are banned too?
How many cities will see such activity increase in coming days as mainstream social media and publication go dark?
What is now happening is happening to an extent that is unprecedented in American history...

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Matthew J. Peterson Profile picture
28 Oct
Look, if someone said to me "Matt, I'll pay you to make a last stand in California", I'd be all about it. There's always a play—no matter how likely the chance of success, there's always a possible gambit. But there's no infrastructure/powerful enough forces willing to even try.
Which is why CA is, practically speaking, hopeless. The only hope here is the cleansing power of collapse. The purifying results of the death spiral.
And I don't blame anyone for not even wanting to try to save the state. You'd run up against some of the most powerful political cartels in the world and there is no political or cultural infrastructure with which to start. You'd have to build it all from scratch. Why bother?
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14 Oct
THREAD-O on the dictionary...

The Modern Nightmare: where all words and meaning expressed by the individual, no matter how jarring or contrary, are absorbed or deconstructed and inexorably incorporated into The Narrative.
The Hyperreal Nightmare: The Narrative is that there is no narrative, as each individual produces his own #fakenews, and no matter how common or harmonious, their words and meaning vanish into the winds of Babel.
Either way, the self is the most secure of prisons, and to be trapped within it the most torturous form of isolation.
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13 Oct
THREAD. One of most frequent & ridiculous responses to my complaint that WE ARE NOW LED BY OCTOGENARIANS DYING IN OFFICE is some variation on “age doesn’t matter”, proud pronouncements about how “their age doesn’t bother me”, & accusation that my tweets were “ageist.”

Bullshit.
1) If you think that (outside of some outlying exceptions) it’s good & normal to work in a demanding & important position of authority until you die you need to get examine yourself. This is a kind of sickness of soul—a repugnant, selfish grasping. These are gaping maws of ego.
What should happen is a conscious transition of power. You start to decline—part of the work of a great leader is to then prepare for exit from the stage. This means getting your things in order after training and mentoring those who can potentially take your place.
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25 Sep
Thread.

The new revelations this week—the FBI agent text messages, the fact that FBI knew Steele memo was based in large part on a suspected Russian spy—aren’t really new. They just document, in a more direct and detailed way, what was happening at the time.
Broad outline’s been clear for yrs. What’s wild is how successful the operation was w/half the nation, especially among professional classes & upper middles, many of whom still believe Trump was a Russian agent—& now believe he is prepping to refuse to transfer power if he loses.
I was leaving DC years ago when enough of the fact pattern had been revealed/I’d spoken w/enough people to make the reality clear to me—what the intelligence community had done for political reasons against a domestic political opponent, etc. As the plane took off I felt sick.
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25 Sep
The mind reels at how easy it would be for Trump and a Trump aligned deep state to gin up excuses for using national security powers to spy on Biden and cook up a “Chinese collision” narrative using the same techniques Obama’s crew used to create the Russian collusion narrative.
Would not be a good thing, obviously. & not possible given the still entrenched bureaucracy & media, etc. But it wld be far, far easier in principle. China wields exponentially more power over our elections than Russia. Bidens, like everyone else, have way more China connections.
There is far more actual justification one could bring out. Lots of $ flow. And China is a far greater threat and Biden has been an advocate for China on free trade, etc. for decades. Their influence on US elections makes Russian ops look like a joke...
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24 Sep
You should talk to all those in your party who are telling Biden not to concede even if he loses, @JillFilipovic.
"While the sheer number of groups and volunteers involved in the effort has given organizers hope...Inside the coalition, there is dispute over whether Biden should even concede if he wins the popular vote but loses the Electoral College, à la Clinton in 2016 and Gore in 2000."
"But the Transition Integrity Project noted that there would be immense pressure on Biden to fight it out if, for the third time in 20 years, the Democratic candidate won the popular vote but didn’t take office."
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