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10 Mar, 8 tweets, 2 min read
ANNOUNCEMENT! I have officially joined the land of Substack. It was probably inevitable. But I'm very excited about the opportunities the platform affords. And most of all, looking forward to making insufferable people's heads explode mtracey.substack.com/p/officially-d…
I am following the laissez faire Substack model where for the first little while, everything published will be freely available to everybody. However, you can still sign up for the paid version right away. Eventually some kind of regulatory schema will kick in though so ACT FAST!
^Clarification, there's no paywall or anything for at least the first month or so. "Paid version" just means that you choose to pay for a subscription, which for now offers the exact same stuff as a free subscription
The content *is* free to everyone, I don’t know how many times I need to clarify this. You have the option of paying voluntarily
No need to imagine, lots of people have done just that for years now. Sorry if it triggers you 😂
One reason why Substack is so necessary right now: because at virtually every other contemporary media institution, this is the prevailing mentality, and it’s totally antithetical to producing anything of value 👇
Perhaps it's just a coincidence that the launch of my Substack has coincided with the first major drive by journalists and tech officials to censor Substack. Perhaps not
Thanks a lot to everyone who’s signed up so far! The response has been great. Vive La Substack

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9 Mar
1) Become professional adult journalist
2) Opine/report on controversial subjects
3) Receive criticism online
4) Claim your "life has been destroyed" by this criticism despite the institutional backing of your employer, the New York Times
Taylor Lorenz is circulating the manifesto of a new group called "Coalition Against Online Violence" which defines "violence" as harsh criticism online. This is becoming the new standard in the media industry, and its intended effect is to stifle criticism against public figures
If you are this traumatized and disconsolate from your adult professional choices, that's unfortunate and hopefully you have mental health resources available. But using it as a battering-ram to stigmatize as "violence" all criticism of you, a public figure, is totally absurd
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26 Feb
Recurring issue with Clubhouse chats is that they almost inevitably evolve into a discussion of "woke-ism" (understandably so given the ideology's cultural/political ascendance) but there's seldom anyone in the room who identifies enough with the ideology to give a defense of it
I actually started a new room trying to remedy this very issue, and sure enough it's expanded into a large multi-racial discussion of "Wokism." Pretty fascinating
It's international too which is doubly interesting: US, Egypt, UK, Jamaica, Sweden
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22 Feb
Marijuana is legal in New Jersey as of today. Massive blow to suburban police forces who I can personally attest often had nothing better to do than strenuously investigate petty marijuana offenses
NJ has an absurd glut of police jurisdictions, so in many areas police were notorious for filling their time with vigorous pursuit of marijuana-related "crime" -- legalization really does upend the entire enforcement and revenue-generation model for a large number of departments
It boggles the mind how heavily certain municipal police departments / courts relied on marijuana enforcement for generating revenue. Corrupt to the core. Not long ago they never could've imagined legalization was even possible. Keep them in your thoughts & prayers
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20 Feb
Federal officials leak that Roger Stone, Alex Jones, and Ali Alexander are being criminally investigated for the "influence" they "may have" exerted on the Capitol mob. Looks like prosecutors are toying with how far they can go with "sedition" charges washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
"Creative" would be one word for it
Again -- the reason the term "insurrection" has been pushed so relentlessly is that it connotes temporal continuity of the alleged "threat," justifying everything under the sun in perpetuity, including constitutionally-dubious federal sedition investigations
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19 Feb
Rush Limbaugh was a pioneer in that he correctly identified a vast untapped audience for news analysis that ran counter to hegemonic liberal consensus: but instead of using that as leverage to challenge the system, he became a prong of one political party

unherd.com/2021/02/how-ru…
One working thesis: the Limbaugh model is gradually becoming obsolete, in the sense that funneling cultural discontent strictly into the power centers of one political party is becoming less and less viable
Of course you'll still have podcast bros and such who are proudly arch-partisans -- but none of them are going to ever have the kind of medium-specific dominance that Limbaugh had
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10 Feb
Bill Clinton once famously exhorted, "I feel your pain." The rising breed of politician increasingly exhorts to the public to instead feel THEIR pain, and if you don't, you are maliciously victimizing THEM

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Because the "emoting" is always ultimately a power play, even if unconsciously. It's intended to place primacy on their "experience" for the purpose of demanding compensation, whether it be via cultural cache or various political outcomes

It's thus appropriate that the impeachment trial currently underway is mainly predicated on the "lived experience" of members of Congress who claim they were so profoundly victimized by the MAGA goofball riot
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