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Sep 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My #twitter feed has become utterly weird. For some reason I’m seeing ton of folks I don’t follow. And what folks 😬

Ted Cruz, Jake Tapper, CNN, Stephen Miller, Tom Cotton, and tons of twisted accounts best described as pseudo-religious and “power of maybe” funnel types.
My lists are even weirder. Barely any activity of tweets in them, but when I look at individual accounts in the lists there’s a lot more tweets going on.

Starting to feel like Facebook tactics like this.
What the heck, how is this in my feed?
And this 😬

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Sep 11
Most of us have no real idea of what it means to live under an authoritarian regime.

But because no matter the variant it always ends the same, we can look back through history.

1/ Thread. What was life like under Mussolini?
2/ Getting Detained Was Common.

No exceptions, it didn't matter if you were a banker, a well connected political lobbyist, a butcher, a soldier or a student. It wasn't pretty either, though Italian prisons at the time were slightly better than our modern day privatised prisons.
3/ Leadership was simply eliminated.

It didn't matter if you had been or were a captain of industry, media figure, union man, local civic leader, student council member - any type of leadership other than the tiny party core was removed.
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Sep 6
There's something bugging me in our #media narratives, but I'm not referring to the #bothsideism pitfall or the problem of normalcy bias.

Something more dangerous.

1/ It's the reductionism: presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple.
2/ Reductionism in our media can be a good thing. For example, simplicity is complexity resolved.

Thing is, our media are narrative engines, we have very little of a Fourth Estate - explanatory #Journalism is rare. Preemptive journalism almost nonexistant.
3/ When reductionism is a component of narrative, a problem surfaces.

Every narrative needs a focal point, and if that narrative has to sell or influence, it requires a focal point which triggers.
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Sep 5
A lot has happened in the past week or so. From speeches to decisions, there’s something which has become a sensitive, inconvenient yet inescapable topic.

1/ America’s establishment is trying to stop Biden.
2/ None of the major networks even carried his speech - they knew in advance what he was going to talk about.

Think about that - not carrying a President’s most historic speech. I wonder why?
3/ Meanwhile, journalists - at CNN, NYT, WP, WSJ & others - decided that what mattered most about the speech was … the backdrop.

It’s an immediate confrontation with our own normalcy bias.

It’s normal neutral if combative journalism, right?
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Sep 4
What we call “Trumpism” was created to use Trump as a mechanism of accelerationist narratives through his behavioural profile. Bannon’s work, from the original MAGA3X design by Thiel.

1/3 It was never designed to make the chaos actor a ruler. But as a lever to force a catalyst.
2/3 MAGA is applied accelerationism. As a networked phenomenon it is a lever. Threatening, distracting.

We tend to forget that Trump was given tools by folks well versed in playbooks like revolutionary warfare.

The post-Trump GOP is far more dangerous than ever.
3/3 In our focus on accountability for Trump, we’re forgetting the big picture.

He inserted himself into an active agenda.
They hated him, but used him.
In the end, the original architects were smarter than him.
No longer a chaos actor, but a symbol, he distracts from them.
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Sep 3
Currently reading this book, by @Notorious_RSG

1/3 As someone of my age, living amidst the culminating turmoil of toxic agenda decades old, and older, whose family came to this country from Weimar Germany as it became Nazi Germany, it’s not an easy book to read. Image
2/3 The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945” is a book which examines the way that Christianity functioned within the Nazi party itself.

A bridge, with ample traffic in both directions. With synergistic effects of common themes.
3/3 As I see neighbours and churches raise black flags, I have to say that the book provides ample insights providing reasons to think further than the past, and further ahead of just here & now. goodreads.com/en/book/show/1…
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Aug 19
At the eve of make-or-break midterms, it's still mostly about Trump in our #media narratives. Understandable, but it is not in line with how a Fourth Estate is required to function.

1/12 The problem is not Trump. The problem was always the GOP.
2/12 The more media fixate on Trump, the higher the probability of an authoritarian GOP being able to complete their current self-coup.

Too many of us still do not realize that the GOP is authoritarian, and that all this was always their plan for power.
3/12 Let's take a look at Fox News.

Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a "fair and balanced" counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media.
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