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Feb 10 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
the US press is going to fail so hard when the astroturfed super patriot freedom trucker convoy inevitably comes to the U.S.

it's just going to be wall to wall NYT/Politico puff pieces that somehow forget to mention this is all theatrical and unpopular partisan ratfucking
"we're not part of a highly coordinated, internationally funded, billionaire-backed effort to sow division, we're just good faith, red blooded american men who are super concerned about inflation"
it's just gobsmacking how bad the mainstream U.S. press (which is purportedly tasked with unearthing and disseminating truth) is at decoding and candidly debunking this kind of performative partisan astroturfing bullshit

it's going to get so stupid and I may have to tap out
in case you missed it, the Australian version of this dumb phony trucker convoy gibberish was "organized" through AI-generated fake Facebook profiles, which seems like a pretty obvious red fucking flag to me:

crikey.com.au/2022/02/10/fak…
And the Canadian one was being funded by roger stone esque right wing shitlords coordinated through all kinds of dodgy nonsense and hacked Facebook accounts:

grid.news/story/misinfor…
but when this same dumb shit comes to the U.S. in a few weeks or months this context is going to be completely absent from most coverage, which will trip over itself to portray all of this as genuine, good faith activism by doe-eyed, patriotic truckers
the press (and everybody) has GOT to get better at identifying and clearly calling out propaganda and farmed, astroturfed, right wing bullshit or it's going to be an extremely long decade
we JUST got done watching them create a massive manufactured nationwide hysteria over "critical race theory" that the press repeatedly framed as genuine, serious policy

the resulting chaos is profitable to the ad-based press so it's incentivized to NOT learn from experience
lol, didn't even have to wait a day for this media fail to come true

"The doe-eyed, good faith, patriotic red blooded American truckers begin their earnest and legitimate (not at all covertly coordinated and funded by right wing shitlords, ratfuckers, and billionaires) protest against tryranny and inflation"

actually the trucker "protests" are a test of shitty U.S. he said, she said journalism, and it's gonna get an F

because the U.S. press is so shitty at calling a duck a duck, the truth (that this is a billionaire-backed white supremacist/authoritarian theater performance seeking to sow division) has to be buried over at teen fucking vogue under the editorial section

teenvogue.com/story/canada-f…
well wouldya look at that

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Feb 10
hey just a heads up that out of financial necessity I'm pivoting from the consumer protection and tech/telecom policy beat to race-baiting contrarian trolling on substack and incoherent babbling about the NFT space I hope you'll all understand and please click to subscribe
I'm thinking maybe a combination of adorable kitten photos and blatant racism dressed up under the thin veneer of dudebro pseudo-intellectualism? I hear that's hot right now. I'm open to ideas.
I mean I don't want to wade TOO deeply into ONLY blatant contrarian pseudo-intellectual substack racism, as I don't want to scare off too many big corporations looking to leverage my reach to spread disinformation designed to crush reform and stall human progress
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Feb 10
I guess people still don't know this despite 40 years of historical record, but the GOP is never going to vote when it matters in favor of meaningful antitrust reform. Not without dumb caveats that undermine the effort.

protocol.com/policy/antitru…
Like the idea that ted cruz and Marsha Blackburn in particular could give the slightest shit about antitrust reform and productively reining in corporate power is just absolute fantasy, and yet here we are
The only reason the GOP is even supporting these very narrow and problematic antitrust reform bills (that only focus on big tech and ignore telecom, banking, etc.) is they see it as a path toward some leverage in the quest to force them to carry race baiting propaganda
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Feb 9
I've been spending 2022 so far talking to local tribal and community leaders about community broadband efforts, and while a lot is going wrong in this country, I've never seen more productive momentum on this subject, ever
Covid (and photos of kids huddled outside of taco bell just to attend class), combined with the infrastructure bill funding, combined with some state efforts (CA) has just caused an absolute explosion in this space.

I'm not sure telecom monopolies fully understand what's coming
Every week this year I've spent on the phone talking with different local community leaders, tribal reps, and activists and the collective, bipartisan, grass roots momentum to finally fix our shitty broadband is like nothing I've ever seen in 20 years of covering telecom
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Feb 9
you can almost hear the russian mob state and their GOP allied shitmerchants cooking up the U.S. equivalent of this performative gibberish for the midterms
honestly if I had stayed in academia after undergrad I would have focused on studying propaganda, because I find this stuff absolutely fascinating

entirely phony movements built on nonsense, grift, and hot air
it's adorable that this story operates from the assumption that this is 100% originating from the U.S., and foreign intelligence agencies aren't also pouring money into this kind of divisive grievance porn

grid.news/story/misinfor…
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Feb 9
this whole bullshit shtick where rich substack dudes (with rich and famous dads) who haven't bought their own groceries in fifteen years whine about the "media class" not understanding "real america" can go die in a hole

performative grift
I actually grew up relatively poor in rural america and these two rich smug fucks wouldn't know real rural america if it fired a neon crossbow bolt at their noggin
Taibbi's a substack millionaire with a slipping grip on factual reality and his dad is a famous NBC reporter

and while NYT and Politico are equally out of touch, they now publish fifty interviews a year with MAGA yokels at small town diners
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Feb 9
yeah funny how that works
you can rush through the nomination of a goofy halfwit to the FCC if he's in line with AT&T's belief structure (government is always bad, mergers are always good), but try to nominate a real consumer protection ally and it's a 12 month process that moves at a snail's pace
the GOP loves to nit pick about competent consumer advocates (especially women) in positions of regulatory power, but will rubber stamp revolving door regulators with obvious financial conflicts of interest at a speed that rattles the windows

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