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Dec 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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It appears that Donald Trump's NFT image of himself as a cowboy comes from an Amazon image that was slightly altered. amazon.com/Scully-Rangewe…
The Trump astronaut NFT image appears to have been a recolored image that was stolen from @benedictredgrov wired.co.uk/article/nasa-a…
The Trump fighter jet pilot NFT seems to be a Shutterstock image. Did they license it? shutterstock.com/image-photo/us…
Here is the image from which the Trump tuxedo NFT seems to have been created.

It's fitting that a fake billionaire would put himself in a tuxedo from Men's Wearhouse. The white bowtie is pitifully constructed. menswearhouse.com/p/pronto-uomo-…
Trump's NFT of him pretending to be a hunter (something he would not be caught dead doing in real life) seems to be derived from this wader set dnwoutdoors.com/banded-aspire-…
There are slight differences with some of the above images and their sources, meaning that it is very possible that the NFT collection is derived from unlicensed images as well as AI-generated copyright infringements. Getty banned AI images for this reason artnews.com/art-news/news/…
Here's my even more detailed writeup about how these crudely made memes managed to sell out, plus some more details on the shady company behind the operation: tyt.com/reports/7015be…

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Oct 3
🧵 Libertarian economist Tyler Cowen is making headlines for an extremely creepy post at Bari Weiss's blog fantasizing about robot virgins and the AI character Tilly Norwood.

Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse than this.... Image
As many know, there are basically no libertarian women.

This is largely a function of that women who are right wing tend to be religious. Only godly delusion can make someone voluntarily give up her rights.

But it's also that libertarian men are notoriously strange.
Side note: Their famous propensity toward creepy and offensive opinions is a big reason that I refused to identify as a libertarian back when I had socially liberal but economically conservative opinions.
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Sep 14
Remember when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed for unspecified crimes? This was literally last year.
Here is Charlie Kirk fantasizing about having children watch public executions and having them be turned into something like sporting events
Republican leaders spew violent rhetoric that is nothing remotely close to what their Democratic counterparts say.

Right-wingers have to resort to posting of rando leftwingers calling for violence. Meanwhile, Trump's top advisors like Steve Bannon call for political executions.
Read 9 tweets
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Sep 11
During the George Floyd protest, a Minneapolis police station that was shot at. Left leaning demonstrators were blamed for it, but the actual shooter was a right wing extremist. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
The Charlie Kirk shooting person of interest sure looks like a far right person.

It's irresponsible for Republicans to make explicit claims about the shooter until he is apprehended and his background information is released. Image
Steven Carrillo, another boogaloo boi, pleaded guilty to murdering a San Francisco police officer at a BLM protest in 2020.

He had posted on Facebook about wanting to start an anti-government revolution. The right loves pretending to be the left.
apnews.com/article/us-air…
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Aug 7
🧵Right-wing extremists like Libs of Tiktok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney "outrage."

The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney never happened. Republicans made it up.

Republicans have been inventing people to rage against for decades… Image
As @kenbensinger and Stuart A. Thompson report, the actual numbers show that almost no one was criticizing Sydney Sweeney for her American Eagle ad.

But Libs of TikTok decided to pretend that lefties were angry. A story that was nothing became huge. nytimes.com/2025/08/07/bus…Image
This tactic, often called nutpicking, is a go-to strategy for RW media. I know this because I was in it for 15 years.

Highlighting random people as supposed representatives of evilness or stupidity is the bit.

Jesse Watters built his career on ridiculing bikini-clad women.
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Jul 19
1/ Donald Trump's obsessive defensiveness about Jeffrey Epstein is causing a deep rupture within his far-right base.

It's an echo of the last time this happened, when he tried to tell MAGA to get vaccinated. They didn't listen.

Link in next post🧵
2/ This episode is also related to Elon Musk's chatbot Grok going into a "MechaHitler" rant.

Reactionaries have built an anti-epistemology and the leaders sometimes can't control it. plus.flux.community/p/epstein-grok…
3/ For years, QAnon and its spinoffs have painted Democrats as part of a secret pedophile cabal. Yet the most documented religious abuse scandals happen within conservative religious denominations.

Data shows 67% of politicians accused of child sex crimes are Republicans.
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Jun 22
🧵 Donald Trump has never been "anti-war."

He supported George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq until it became an overwhelming disaster. Then hey pretended to have always opposed it.

One of only a few things Trump has ever been consistent on was wanting to bomb Iran.
Trump often criticized other presidents' foreign wars, but this was not because he opposes war and wants diplomacy.

The fact that Trump was willing to criticize other presidents for getting into ill-fated foreign wars confused some people....
Donald Trump is not smart enough to have an ideology. His mind is a fetid rat's nest of conspiracy theories, hairspray, and stimulants.

When he criticized Obama or Bush for engaging in wars, he did so because he knew that's what a lot of people wanted to hear.
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