Pretty rich, coming from the guy who is heavily financed by influential @Facebook board member Peter Thiel
Pun intended
Citation, because I always come with em vox.com/recode/2233204…
He's like Dwight Schrute, but gone horribly wrong

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5 May
This is a good thread. I talk about my own inheritance of institutional knowledge a lot - I'm at least a third-gen journo - and how what I know has been forgotten by so many that I often sound radical to others when what I say is actually just historically accurate common sense
My criticisms may often be political, but they are never partisan. I dig in my heels because I know my history, and thus I know theirs as well. The technology may change, the speed and scale may change, but the fascist conspiracy theories all stay the same at their core.
This would not have been forgotten had it not been for wave after wave of layoffs and buyouts that have absolutely decimated my industry since the 1990s. The agitators, the annoyances, the ones who don't play well with others - all characteristics that make bad "team players" but
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4 May
This is a reminder to me as well, since I've shared his shit in the recent past. Actually, this is relevant to a point I've been trying to make to people lately, let me see if I can make it make sense.

So, disinfo purveyors rely on emotions to bypass rational thought, and it
has to be a powerful and atavistic enough emotion to short-circuit rationality. Usually that is something like invoking rage or fear, hence all that bullshit scarelore about the border to get the marks all in a lather about "mass migration" or other white supremacist fantasies
But it's not always rage or fear. I'm mad all the time and always have been so I know how to deal with that, and after years of covering breaking news in Los Angeles and postconflict work at the border nothing on the planet frightens me.
Read 10 tweets
4 May
It's run by Brad Parscale. Hahahaha @parscale I knew you'd go back to lick his boots the moment you could

foxnews.com/politics/trump… #FoxNews
Parscale's Nucleus is also part of the Jenner campaign for governor of California, as one might expect to find riding the coattails of an astroturfed recall campaign relying on white supremacists and anti-vaxxers to launder their bullshit.
But enough about that, remember when @Parscale got arrested in his underwear and cried like a chickenshit lmao
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4 May
Weird, because I saw him claiming that he was the person behind the account just the other day
Oh and Ken -- don't worry. If you delete this, I've gone ahead and archived it
Read 5 tweets
4 May
This doesn't work. They don't engage in good faith. Bring out the trombones and sousaphones and dance around them mockingly (safely) or something similar. Mock them. Laugh at them. Insult them. They can't stand it.
This emboldens and normalizes them. What they need is public humiliation, a powerful social control.
Like this, en masse and every single time. This is legitimate counterdisinfo/proactive measures

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3 May
Because his frivolous and race-baiting lawsuits make him a crucial node in the #TantonNetwork
Not an exaggeration. Check this out (from 2012; like I said, I've been watching these people for a long time.) motherjones.com/politics/2012/…
You may recognize some of the other names from their racist antics in last few years also!
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