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16 Oct, 4 tweets, 4 min read
This grotesque far-right account pumps out divisive, inaccurate, deliberately inflammatory anti-"illegal immigrant" bile 24/7, yet I have my suspicions about whether the account holder is who they claim to be, & despite being a "proud patriot", if the account is even based here.
Like many unhinged populist nationalists who subscribe to a far-right ideology, it does a popular line in saying "anti-racists are the most racist" while regularly insulting Greta Thunberg.

And of course it LOVES 'strong men' Xi Jinping, Putin, Modi & Andrew Neil, AND GB "News".
The insidious & disingenuous nature of its tweets follow a rhetorical style you can see here - it's the equivalent of the "I'm not racist but",

It often mocks concern for & trivialises racism, & throws in a lot of 'law & order' rhetoric too.

academic.oup.com/bjc/article/58…
My concern is with the cumulative radicalising effects of anonymous troll accounts lawfully pumping out deliberately divisive & inflammatory far-right rhetoric all day every day, usually without challenge, in a context of rising UK far-right terrorism.

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17 Oct
A #THREAD on polarisation.

Imho, we've arrived at a curious historical juncture, wherein the strategy adopted by either 'side' of *any* issue now follows a familiar format, regardless of what the issue is (I'm NOT claiming "both sides" of a debate have equally valid arguments):
1) delegitimise opposing organisations/beliefs/groups by claiming they're funded by anti-democratic individuals/organisations with a sinister ulterior/ideological motive

2) flood social/print/online media with divisive rhetoric demonising & negatively stereotyping the other side
3) claim supporters of a particular view have been brainwashed/radicalised by sinister anti-democratic forces

4) claim THE TRUTH is being deliberately suppressed

5) claim sections of the media are pushing a grotesquely distorted view

6) exclude non-partisan voices from debate
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17 Oct
Obviously it's exclusively the hateful Lefties who are too loose with their 'dangerous rhetoric'.
And of course the hateful Leftist "scum media" played its role in amplifying dangerously irresponsible rhetoric too.
And as for those awful Lefty MPs saying all sorts of terrible things...
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17 Oct
Ages ago I replied to a tweet with some duff info about the Mont Pelerin Society, which I quickly deleted.

This person from the weirdo CATO institute dug up a screenshot of the deleted tweet & tweeted it out - I assume because I'm very critical of the Koch-funded CATO Institute.
This is the deleted tweet he's obsessed with - which was, as I say, duff information - & he's now smearing me by making spurious claims about the tweet.

It was seen by just TWO people before it was deleted (not sure what the foreign language is at the bottom).
This is the thread that seems to have so rattled him (or perhaps his bosses at the CATO Institute).

The exchange that upset him is at the end.

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16 Oct
Stephen Colbert: "Why did you go from acting into politics?"

Glenda Jackson: "Because my country was being destroyed by Margaret Thatcher. Anything that I could have done that was legal to get her & her Govt out of office, I was prepared to have a go at"

"The clincher for me was when she said 'there's no such thing as society', & even though I'd seen my country being destroyed, everything I'd been taught as a child to regard as vices, she told me were virtues: greed wasn't greed it was 'independence'..."
"selfishness wasn't selfishness, it was 'taking care of yourself & your family'; & a friend of mine, an artist, came back from the centre of London & said 'London is now a city that Hogarth would recognise' - & he would have recognised it, because..."
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16 Oct
The Adam Curtis documentary #HyperNormalisation argued that governments, financiers, & technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex "real world" & built a simpler "fake world" run by corporations & kept stable by politicians.

theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…
In relation to #COVID19, the UK Govt has been “systematically #normalising” the UK’s current rate of infections.

“They’ve been acting like this is inevitable, seeming relaxed about infections going up".

The UK has suffered twice as many COVID deaths as civilian deaths in WWII.
“People often want a generic psychological explanation (for the perceived lack of concern), but we mustn’t ignore the political & ideological context in which this is happening. We’re looking at a phenomenon of #normalisation.”
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15 Oct
Essex police have just issued a press release declaring "a terrorist incident, with a potential link to Islamist extremism" - @BBCNews
There are hundreds if not thousands of these despicable far-right accounts who have spent the day demonising or blaming Angela Raynor for the death of David Amess.

Police have now confirmed it's 'being treated as a terrorist incident with potential link to Islamist extremism'.
David Amess killing declared a terrorist incident.

Man, 25, in custody as police investigate ‘potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism’.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/o…
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