Share this page!

Bob From Brockley 🥤 Profile picture
Twitter logo
9 Feb, 5 tweets, 4 min read
So many bad “anti-imperialist” takes on here on Ecuador’s elections, esp’y on indigenous anti-extractivist Yaku Peréz. For good English-language counterpoints try: @triofrancos @neogaia @lilithxrmx @Itmechr3 @db_beaulieu @pauloCanning @InvisiblesMuros @anarchist_h0e @BrazilBrian
This tweet is the clearest summary of the faultlines:
Apparently, the accounts I recommend should be judged in the basis of breast size
The Grayzone: Yaku Peréz is a US stooge

Yaku Peréz: The Americans are trying to hack the election to stop me standing

eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/elecc… Image
The Grayzone: Yaku Peréz is the candidate of the bankers and neoliberals
Bankers and neoliberals: Let’s disinvest from Ecuador as Yaku Peréz is worse for our interests than the ruling party

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… ImageImage

• • •

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

Keep Current with Bob From Brockley 🥤

Bob From Brockley 🥤 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 @bobfrombrockley

Bob From Brockley 🥤 Profile picture
29 Jan
One thing about COVID is that it's brought to view the growing culture of denialism & conspiracism in the social media age. Again & again, COVID "skepticism" links to other denialisms, e.g. Holocaust negation, 9/11 Truth & Syrian chemical weapons denialism.

Two new examples:
1/ Desmond Swayne is the "COVID-skeptic" Tory MP in the news this week for telling anti-vaxx activists to persist and for associating with Del Bigtree and Richie Allen. Bigtree & Allen are both major figures in a range of conspiracy theory scenes...
inews.co.uk/news/uk/sir-de…
Del Bigtree was producer of Andrew "MMR" Wakefield's anti-vaccine film," Vaxxed", & dabbled in softcore Holocaust negation with his yellow star stunt. He's a good example of how the anti-vaxx movement formed the foundation for the COVID denial scene.

jta.org/quick-reads/an…
Read 21 tweets
Bob From Brockley 🥤 Profile picture
28 Jan
I see Angry Twitter Male is piling into @AngelaRayner because of her insistence teachers are at high risk of Covid, a claim the government denies based on data from September & early October. If you’re interested in the actual facts this is useful: schoolsweek.co.uk/fact-check-are…
The fact that these people are more angry about Angela Rayner’s accent than at the issue she was asked to talk about – the fact that a government MP encouraged anti-vaxx activists and lied about death stats — speaks volumes news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
This is who Sir Desmond Swayne is, by the way:
Read 4 tweets
Bob From Brockley 🥤 Profile picture
20 Jan
As Trump time comes to an end, a disturbing section of the left is thinking about reaching out to the hard right to try and make itself relevant with his angry, bigoted followers... [a short thread]
...Some of the Extremely Online Left in the US has deluded itself into thinking that the far right insurgency is a bluecollar movement (a bit like how both Blue Labour centrists and the Trot/Stalinist left in the UK persuaded itself Brexit is a working class victory)...
(of course, we know now the 6 January rioters were CEOs, lawyers, cops and whitecollar GOP activists refinery29.com/en-us/2021/01/… HT @FFRAFAction )
Read 17 tweets
Bob From Brockley 🥤 Profile picture
7 Jan
If I had time today, I’d do a thread of all the Emberies and Garyzoners and Greenwalds who, as armed goons stormed America’s capital, decided that it’s really Trump and his followers who need our sympathy and that anyone alarmed at fascist violence is a liberal snowflake....
And I haven’t even dared check if Brendan O’Neill has weighed in yet to say that Twitter/the Democrats/liberals are “the real fascists”
So I see O’Neill has called it. HT @InTheLionsDen_ @LiberalElite10
Read 12 tweets
Bob From Brockley 🥤 Profile picture
19 Sep 20
Antisemitic wingnut Kate Shemirani was the main speaker at today’s “Resist And Act For Freedom” protest in central London ImageImage
Looking at the rest of the speakers at yesterday’s anti-lockdown rally: Doloros Cahill is the chair of the hard right Irish Freedom Party, and believes in hydroxychloroquine as a COVID cure

irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i…
Cahill was launched to alt-right fame after being interviewed by Irish YouTuber Dave Cullen, who is so right-wing he thinks Sargon of Akkad is a Marxist

thejournal.ie/dolores-cahill…

rationalwiki.org/wiki/Computing…
Read 16 tweets
Bob From Brockley 🥤 Profile picture
25 Aug 20
🦠 Starting a new thread on COVID conspiracy theories and denialism.🦠

The virus has created an opportunity for far right groups to get purchase in the mainstream...
An anti-mask rally in Ireland this week was organised by an anti-vaxx group Health Freedom Ireland, the hard right UKIP-style Irish Freedom Party, & Yellow Vests Ireland. It was attended by several neo-Nazi activists, many armed. the-beacon.ie/2020/08/22/arr… socialistparty.ie/2020/08/report…
The rally was organised with support from the German fascist group Querdenken-711, which has links to the AfD and Holocaust denial. See @TheBeaconIrl: the-beacon.ie/2020/08/22/iri…
Read 44 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 emails when @bobfrombrockley has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @bobfrombrockley!

Read all threads by @bobfrombrockley