How to become a beloved mainstream liberal politician:
1. Smile no matter what you're saying 2. Embrace Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, & every other war criminal you meet 3. Secretly facilitate US-led drone bombing "missions" & kill POC daily
4. Use "diversity" as a cover for reinforcing the military industrial complex & your business-as-usual (ie. killing for $$) stance 5. Spend tens of millions of dollars of public money on PR campaigns to teach people how great you are, then celebrate your greatness at every chance
6. Advance "total awareness" intelligence agency agendas, violating your citizen's homes, schools, workplaces, vehicles, streets with ubiquitous spying hardware & software at a level that would put China to shame 7. Make your citizenry a police force, turning them upon each other
8. Celebrate "our freedoms" while attacking, undermining & withdrawing them on every front 9. Otherise your nationality "we are special/different/a team" while globalising your economics (yup this is the woman who shoved through the TPP directly against the will of the NZ people)
Only 4 weeks on, we've had a 50% increase in donations, a 30% increase in donors, 4 new campaign updates posted, 6 new media appearances and some very dodgy and untrustworthy new follow stats from big tech that may or may not be accurate!
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Second: more techy geeky stuff
You may remember from last month, we'd completed our use cases, workflows, & mockups.
This month we've been mapping our application properties: the objects, methods & data structures that our code will reference & which define our application
BIG THREAD: When a self-professed "disinformation specialist" turns out to in fact be a specialist in circulating disinformation.
I was surprised at how many people failed to scratch below the surface of @davetroy's semi-recent yet widely circulated pontificating about QAnon
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Many people know that I was among the first people in the world to call out QAnon for the giant scam/psyop that it is.
I called it out in a now famous & epically long thread that I wrote in May 2018.
That thread was picked up & amplified by Julian Assange & WikiLeaks.
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My thread calling out QAnon for a psyop and warning people not to fall for it was not only written while I was living in Russia, but was widely circulated by many Occupy-related activists & WikiLeaks supporters.
Why? Because we knew QAnon was bullshit & were warning people
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Multiple times now, my account or my organisational accounts have been locked out or suspended & I've been able to get others to make enough noise about it to get it fixed in a day
That's a privilege. Millions don't have it. Millions are locked out permanently & lose everything
I actually lost a ton of my photojournalism & event coverage (years worth) when @OccupyNZ was arbitrarily suspended without reason. Likewise, we lost a huge piece of activism history when @OccupyAuckland was suspended years earlier.
Arbitrary suspensions really are book burning
It's the digital equivalent of someone saying "I didn't like your behaviour today so I'm going to set all of your personal photo albums and your home movie collection on fire and I'm not actually going to tell you what you did that made me do this to you. Don't like it? Too bad."
THREAD: What did the @Pan_Quake community learn at tonight's public delivery meeting?
Spoiler alert! Only scroll down if you don't want to spoil the surprises in the full video (which you can find here: vimeo.com/517657255 or at talkliberation.com)
PanQuake - which is probably the most transparent business ever - has released a set of campaign metrics and statistics. It has only been 6 weeks since we launched our campaign, yet our stats are phenomenal.
ZERO corporate backing. ZERO MSM coverage. Yet look what you've done :)
We also released the full breakdown of web traffic to PanQuake.com
These numbers are through the roof, for a grassroots project with a $0 marketing and $0 advertising budget and with no corporate PR or media support.