Yep! I can no longer remember this guy's name but I can tell you that during a brief stay in San Diego he did try to stick his gross and much older than me tongue in my mouth when I was just a lil wee one going by "Producer Brooke" at the rock radio cluster in 97 or so
Story from 2003. And now that we know how dramatic an effect mass communication has on our culture and society, perhaps it's time to look at changing a few fundamental things about it. washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…
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What's especially great about this video is that because they are always so inauthentic anyway it's impossible to tell whether this is a poorly acted bit
Which is setting the stage for the far right to steal all future elections and accuse Democrats of any number of weaponized and outlandish things to befuddle reporters and cover their tracks. It's obvious by now, no?
Step 1: Flood social media with astroturfed bullshit
Step 2: Tap a few dozen useful idiots to show up at events and harass Dems
Step 3: Harass journos who accurately report facts by accusing them of political bias and worse
Step 4: Wildly accuse everyone else of what you're doing
So the tactics you can identify here are: Firehosing, Gaslighting, and Distraction. There's a fourth disinfo tactic that's starting in again today, which is Disheartenment ("it's too late to do anything.") Don't listen to those assholes, either.
You all ready to acknowledge the role of disinformation in swaying elections yet?
For those of you thinking you're informing me that the media was in on it, this tweet is actually intended for the people who have the nerve to call themselves my colleagues in journalism and who repeatedly keep shitting the bed when disinformation campaigns present themselves
(And blocking me when I call them out, not that I blame them for that, I am fully aware I have a terrible personality and do not give a fuck any more)
When Identity Evropa was "auditing" University of California classes in 2018, they were harassing students in ethnic studies courses in exactly the same way the "anti-CRT" astroturfing is playing out today