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24 Nov, 8 tweets, 3 min read
There is massive overlap between the people identified here (Diamond + Silk, Presler, Straka, Bongino) and the “Charter Class” of Parler users from Oct-Dec 2018.

We need to stop taking these people at face value and look at their funding and origins.

nytimes.com/2020/11/23/tec…
These are the accounts that joined Parler prior to February 2019; just a few thousand, but note you see these same people in this cohort.

Who pays someone like Scott Presler to stir things up? How about “Jim Jones Lite” Brandon Straka and his silly WalkAway campaign?
Here is Straka at his lightly attended rally in Baltimore in July. Who paid for all this? Who paid for Joy Villa to fly in from Los Angeles so she could wear a vinyl Trump dress in the 100 degree heat? Straka is a former hairdresser, from Nebraska.
He lived in NYC and organized a couple of odd “resistance” events before pivoting to running the #WalkAway campaign, which would seem to cost far more to execute than it likely takes in.

The pattern with these LARPs is they engage marginal characters who can build audiences.
The fact that these characters consistently spout rhetoric aligned with Russian interests suggests that Russia benefits from their existence.

That doesn’t mean Russia is funding them directly; it’s just as likely a web of connected US interests and self-funding.
But we MUST stop assuming that people who seek to be identified as “far right” actually believe what they say.

They adopt these roles for the EFFECTS they are trying to have on society.

Cassandra Fairbanks is the prime example of this; she flipped from left to right in 2016.
Lisa Clapier is another. She ran comms at Occupy LA and was at Standing Rock praying for water keepers. Now?

She is @SnowWhite7IAM and a major character and leader inside QAnon, pushing all manner of right wing new age Q woo.

She, like all these critters, is playing a ROLE.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. If one is encountering these characters for the first time without knowledge of their history, it’s hard to understand their motivations. Disinformation and division is their goal and they are very effective at it. Platforms should take note.

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I will be adding illustrative commentary here around our current media moment once this poll closes, so please check back tomorrow for some discussion. Thanks!
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The technically correct answer to the question is that Hiss was found guilty of perjury, for lying under oath.
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It would be harder to understand what #StupidCoup was about if they weren’t telegraphing their moves.

Here’s a quick look at who’s involved, and what they are telling us their intentions are (thread)...
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nytimes.com/2020/11/11/bus…
And here is Hannity pushing the #StupidCoup “fire Haspel” line just a couple hours after Sputnik. How did I know yesterday they would lead with this today? #RIPQ
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This is ECW, part of Q operation, which is morphing to center on “E.” Image
Here is a sample of the “devastating” changes afoot. If we succeed in disrupting this, exposing this may seem like overreaction. If we do nothing, we may be unable to recover.

politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
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