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Nov 1 7 tweets 5 min read
Dying from sarin is incredibly painful.

Technically, sarin interferes with ACh breakdown in synapses; it makes parts of the autonomic nervous system that control your breathing stop working.

I've read it described as drowning on air.

That's what #ParmesanGirl was lying about.
#ParmesanGirl, aka Maram Susli, uses ethno-nationalist rhetoric to support Syria using chemical weapons to defend its borders, supports Hezbollah, and recycles conspiracy theories about Jewish people.

The word for that is "Nazi".
Ahmed Kousay al-Taie's was an Iraqi-American who enlisted during the war in Iraq.

His mother says that she wants to emphasize her son was of mixed Sunni and Shia heritage.

He was executed by a Shiite militant group in Iraq.

This is #parmesanGirl calling for his death.
Sources:

NYT on Ssgt. Ahmed Kousay al-Taie
nytimes.com/2006/11/03/wor…

Second source on Ssgt. Ahmed Kousay al-Taie
nbcnews.com/id/wbna46540294

State Department on Ghouta
state.gov/ninth-annivers…
Al-Arabiya on Susli: english.alarabiya.net/variety/2014/1…

Daily Beast on Susli:
thedailybeast.com/the-kardashian…

Forum link with Susli statement as "Syrian Sister", identified by Daily Beast:
abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread26…
This is why #NAFOFellas are making #parmesanGirl trend.

Because she's so afraid of having any of this brought up, she mass-blocked everyone on my follow list and tried to make an example of me and NAFO.

Next time you troll her, tell her Ssgt. Ahmed Kousay al-Taie says hello.
If you ever, for one moment, feel bad, or feel like pulling back on #parmesanGirl - it's natural, I've felt that - I want you to remember two things:

1. humor is not only a way of disrupting authoritarianism, it's also a survival tool at times

2. Ssgt. Ahmed Kousay al-Taie

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Nov 3
Max Blumenthal, Briahna Joy Gray, Michael Tracey, and none other than Stephen F**king Miller himself all have something in common.

They were recruited to join this podcasting company.

It was founded by David Sacks.
Dilutive financing via series A round with Sequoia, Goldcrest and Sack's incubator called Craft Ventures

axios.com/2021/09/02/cal…
Craft Ventures active investments per Pitchbook
pitchbook.com/profiles/inves…
Read 9 tweets
Nov 2
Let's look at some Russian ads.

So, I look to @LaurenUnderwood as a role model for navigating spaces of power & disinfo as a non-white person. Underwood is, briefly:

- an insanely well-educated former HHS official
- House rep for IL-14
- a hitter

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I started clocking Underwood in '18 when she defeated Hultgren.

With Hultgren, you're looking at a dude that literally let bankers write finance legislation for him. Underwood's qualifications blew his out of the water.

What's interesting is how Russian ads targeted IL-14. Image
Someone at the Internet Research Agency in 2016 really wanted to make sure that they hit Lauren Underwood's home town (she wasn't running at the time) and IL-14 in general, with considerable specificity.

And they ran, of course, ads about race (again: America reasons). Image
Read 7 tweets
Nov 2
Let me show you a Nazi and make a point: the targets you take on, and how, matter.

Example: Suppose I suddenly started going at Caitlin Jenner (the lady who's a massive asshole conservative) about being trans.

There's no lack of awful things Jenner has said/done.

1/4
But choosing to pick on her would say something.

It's not much different than if I start attacking Lebron James for a tweet about hate speech on Twitter.

So, meet @TheIllegit.

This is the #1 account harassing Lebron James yesterday by number of tweets.

2/4
As you can see, @TheIllegit thinks everything is run by Jewish people.

He argues a lot about hate speech on Twitter in surprisingly reasonable () terms considering he's a fucking Nazi piece of shit.

Do report him of course, but here's the point:
3/4 ImageImageImageImage
Read 5 tweets
Nov 2
There's no official NAFO meme "brand".

So, racist, misogynist or plain bad content can be planted or used to discredit the movement; both are probably already true.

I'd like to think being exemplary is enough, but let's be clear:

If you're going there, you ain't NAFO to me.
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It'd be hubris in the extreme to speak for the movement or tell people how to make art.

Let me say, then, to me, at least, from experience, there's a few really easy way to tell what the lines are.

One, are you punching up or down - going with or against social hierarchy?
Examples help illustrate. We just did this with #parmesanGirl & #crayZone.

There is a male-female social hierarchy in a lot of societies, mine (America) included; we're working on it, but it's there.

Going at Alex Rubinstein pretty hard is pretty OK. With Susli, you need lines.
Read 15 tweets
Nov 2
OK, let's refute this.

In the favorable phrasing, she's saying:

Given lack of articulable standards for U.S. military intervention, intervening in Ukraine is unjustifiable in the face of global challenges facing the world.

It's a soundbite.

Every clause in it is wrong.

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To start with, it's not a military intervention.

The White House has repeatedly made this clear.

If anything, it's a sanctions "war", but BJG ignores the innocent people who will starve, become impoverished, and potentially die because of our sanctions.
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
The standards for both military intervention and what we're doing in Ukraine are extremely well-established; further, the escalating stakes obviate those standards.

I remind you of an international hunger crisis sparked and exploited by Russia.
forbes.com/sites/brianbus…
Read 12 tweets
Nov 1
So I think there's a way to change the outcome of a Senate race with #NAFO.

Consider Ohio.

These are the largest populations of Ukrainian-Americans in the U.S.
axios.com/local/chicago/…

IL, NY and PA are all important races (PA especially).

Ohio is special though.

1/5
You've got to understand, American politics are in a *bad* place right now. It's not, like, us vs. them; it's more like ethno-fascist minoritarians pretending to be a majority versus literally everyone else.

The result is a kind of hyper-polarization.
cnbc.com/2022/10/23/nbc…
2/5
If everyone is whipping up a frenzy in their own base to turn out, and not making a play for moderates (there aren't many) then even 20k-50k voters can be the margin in a statewide race.

This is something I learned in Alabama in '17.

See that? That's an expensive 20k votes.
3/5
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