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31 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Check out the production on this clip. It's just as WTF as the manic words Peter Navarro is spewing. He literally looks like some sort of cross between WWE and Infowars.

The exaggerated hand jestures, the wide-angle standup shot with stars.
Peter Navarro in his stand up studio doing one of several over-the-top double-finger pointing gestures just exactly like a WWE monologue. This dude was one of Trump's top presidential advisers. Wow.
Yes exactly. The only thing Peter Navarro is missing is Mean Gene standing next to him holding the microphone
Apparently fake wrestlers are literally running in Republican primaries now. Maybe this is what Peter Navarro is aspiring to. The accent and bull riding are all fake but the message just might work in Texas
This video is LOL worthy as well since the alleged rodeo hand calls a bull "she" in an ad that promotes bigotry against trans people. No person actually familiar with rodeos would ever say something so ill-informed. Right-wing city-slicker fail.
I suppose this was all inevitable though

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In case you missed it, Gab got hacked again, by the same intruder after it failed to revoke admin session tokens.

More proof that the faulty cognitive processes that lead to belief in illogical ideas also makes it harder for them to spread w/o help
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Deplatforming works as a societal protection mechanism because extremists cannot disseminate their views effectively unless others build the platforms for them.

Their broken-brain understanding of reality also means that they can't build propaganda infrastructure.
You can't effectively change reality unless you actually understand it. But if competent and normal people make giant social networks and then let you use them for free and without consequence, you don't have to learn a thing. They've subsidized your insanity.
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9 Mar
The entire concept and history of the word "RINOs" is about silencing dissent. Conservatives invented "cancel culture."

The whining about it today is only because it happens to them sometimes now. They think only others should be canceled.
Don't be surprised also if Trump's tantrum about "RINOs" and the GOP turns out to be nothing more than a ploy to force the RNC to pay him money to use his name.
The cash for Trump angle is very important here. He has millions of dollars in debt coming due but no banks want to loan him money to refinance it.

While Trump did con supporters into giving "election defense" millions, he can't legally use it since it was PAC donations.
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After months of work, @DiscoverFlux is now live. Please check it out: flux.community

We're taking a different approach to news, one that's community-driven, non-profit, and designed to open the national conversation to people who have been ignored...
Everyone's always saying that we live in the "Information Age" which means information is our society's most valuable commodity. So why have we entrusted it primarily to companies whose sole motive is profit? We need more non-profit news operations.
At the same time, because of economies of scale, national media executives have overwhelmingly concentrated jobs in Manhattan and DC, leaving the vast majority of America utterly ignored.

Over the decades, this has engendered apathy, hatred, and harmed social knowledge.
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