Share this page!

Respectable Lawyer Profile picture
Twitter logo
16 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Being Twitter famous has given me the opportunity to have private conservations with some of the smartest people in the world about this problem, and not one of them has a single coherent idea of what to do.

Most seem to agree the current public vulnerability to misinformation stems from a series of material and psychological deprivations combined with the sudden democratization of information. Too many want to hinder the latter rather than solving the former.
There will be no top-down solution to this problem. You will not legislate your way out. You will not litigate your way out. You will not censor you way out. And any attempt to arbitrate the truth will fail unless you remove those material and psychological deprivations.
So what do you do in a world that appears 100% committed to continuing those deprivations into the foreseeable future? I have no idea. And they don't either.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Respectable Lawyer

Respectable Lawyer Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @RespectableLaw

Respectable Lawyer Profile picture
27 Oct
You could not be more wrong (which is fine) but your lazy attempt to smear people like me as anti-gay misogynists is just sad at this point. "Libs going to brunch" is quite obviously code for affluent detachment from the life and death politics of the marginalized.
"Back to bunch" describes for how certain segments of the Democratic party are ready to ignore politics completely once Trump is gone, as he is primarily a personal irritant. If they can just reset the clock to 2013, they will be happy.
People who had problems in 2013 and will continue to have problems after 2020 rightly ridicule this attitude. And brunch is a convenient cultural shorthand because it has always been connected to wealth and gentrification. So when these signs became common, it was a natural link.
Read 7 tweets
Respectable Lawyer Profile picture
12 Oct
Tim Pool saw Shell Oil post a black square on Instagram and now he thinks they actually give a fuck about racial justice because he is waaaaaay dumber than you.
Being punk is about respecting the cops and absolutely never throwing a brick through a window under any circumstances.
Being punk is about getting on a bus with a bunch of militia freaks in Call of Duty costumes, driving to a city you don't live in, attacking someone with mace, and getting shot in the face.
Read 4 tweets
Respectable Lawyer Profile picture
2 Oct
THREAD: If you are one of these hand-wringing intellectuals who believe Gavin McInnes' attempts to distance the Proud Boys from Unite the Right, Richard Spencer, VDARE, etc., was based on ideology rather than aesthetics and strategy, then you are a sucker.
Gavin McInnes, a smart man, understood that a successful American white supremacist organization cannot have an all-white membership and cannot be overt about being a white supremacist organization. It sure as hell can't march around chanting blood and soil.
So like a lot of white nationalists in the wake of Heather Heyer's death, McInnes dressed up his bigotry in the fancy clothes of "Western Chauvinism." For example, McInnes said: Image
Read 6 tweets
Respectable Lawyer Profile picture
8 Sep
Hey @RexChapman, can you do us a favor and not use your million-follower account to promote one of the most vile, bigoted, and abusive trolls on this website? If you don’t know the story of Bianca Delarosa, aka Bravenak, I’ve got a few tweets to share with you in this thread...
Let’s start here:

Nazi-level anti-Semitism is a theme with Delarosa. This is the person you are promoting: “I did not know jews hated us blacks so much. Good to know. I will return it in kind. There are so few of them it’s a wonder they have the gall to think about being racist against blacks.” Image
Read 11 tweets
Respectable Lawyer Profile picture
31 Aug
Hey @ByMikeBaker, WTF is this? Do you want to take a crack at explaining at what you were thinking when you put this in a New York Times article?
And on top of everything in that thread, what is this? You’re not going to mention the video shows the Patriot Prayer member spraying mace at the person before he was shot?

Image
Ah yes, the conflict began because “the counterprotestors confronted a number of the vehicles” driven by these Christian small government advocates, recklessly plowing through intersections while indiscriminately shooting mace and paintballs. Good work enabling this nightmare. Image
Read 4 tweets
Respectable Lawyer Profile picture
27 Aug
Too bad the Lincoln Project ads are only seen by Twitter liberals who donate money which is spent on Lincoln Project board members and their associated companies instead of ad buys and voter contact.

The Lincoln Project is the theft of money which could be used to defeat Trump. Image
Some people worry the Lincoln Project folks would try to gain influence post-election in the Biden White House, and that's a legit concern, but it has always been about separating liberals from their money.

opensecrets.org/news/2020/05/l… Image
Under increased scrutiny, they have made some large ad buys recently, but their production costs and "operating expenditures" remain through the roof. And they use subcontractor relationships to hide a lot of these payments. Image
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get email notifications when new thread is out from this Author!

Check out other threads from this Author!

Read all threads by @RespectableLaw