Thread by @eugyppius1

rare strategy poast:

1) Critical (& investigative) journalism is dead. Everything put out by major broadcast & print media is low-effort narcicissm poasting masterminded by uni interns & racially/ sexually obsessed lunatics. Stop being mad about this. It is opportunity.

2) Longer form journalism is a field almost entirely open to us. There is no competition, people want to know what is happening, they want to have comment sections where they can discuss this insanity, and their heretofore trusted newspapers feed them nothing but agitprop garbage

3) I think Substack is interesting platform we should explore & consider colonising. The email subscriber lists make our accounts resilient to banning. Look at successful Substack authors: Many of them are writing precisely in areas ignored or sidelined by our broken press.

4) This isn’t paid promotion, the only money I collect for anything are my subscriptions there, and I have the whole subscriber list, I could in theory easily move to another platform. I’m not in touch with anyone at Substack, for all I know they’re minimally aware of me.

5) I simply think this can be an interesting medium for us. It hits the journalists we hate right in the balls, it’s why they’re so butthurt about it. I want more of us to write longform pieces over there, I want to bromote more interesting bloggers on that platform.

Fin.