I'll be straight up with y'all, #NAFO, since you stood up by me with Kim Dotcom, Parmesan & Andy K:
You know why I'm so contemptuous of an "attack" from a few #MAGA idiots?
Because that's not a credible attack on NAFO.
This is.
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You know why I'm so contemptuous of an "attack" from a few #MAGA idiots?
Because that's not a credible attack on NAFO.
This is.
(🧵)
https://twitter.com/JoohnChoe/status/1582890043961548800?s=20
The most recurrent attacks on NAFO, the really strategic ones, aren't randos insulting us or claiming we're CIA bots.
They're strategic disinfo adversaries who try to paint us as racists or Nazis, because they appreciate the danger we pose.
They're strategic disinfo adversaries who try to paint us as racists or Nazis, because they appreciate the danger we pose.
https://twitter.com/JoohnChoe/status/1582320491984846848?s=20
This form of attack has historically come from leftists.
Again, I'd bring up the way that #Brie went about it.
Not only would, say, an Ann Coulter probably be too stupid to think of that, they wouldn't be positioned to do that.
Again, I'd bring up the way that #Brie went about it.
Not only would, say, an Ann Coulter probably be too stupid to think of that, they wouldn't be positioned to do that.
https://twitter.com/JoohnChoe/status/1630333095114321921?s=20
This form of attack is also why I've taken pains to emphasize some of the innately positive things that NAFO does, not just in terms of its core missions of bonking disinfo and fundraising for Ukraine, but also in the way that members support each other.
https://twitter.com/JoohnChoe/status/1625936314414821377?s=20
The biggest danger we face is not direct attack as a leaderless oppositional movement.
It's co-optation; it's people distracting the movement, or turning it away from its core missions, or making it discredit itself and push people away.
This is probably happening already.
It's co-optation; it's people distracting the movement, or turning it away from its core missions, or making it discredit itself and push people away.
This is probably happening already.
However, while co-opting a movement is historically one of the best solutions for an entrenched powerful entity to oppose it... NAFO isn't exactly any kind of typical movement, not by a long shot.
There are aspects of identity, and play, that make it unique for starters.
There are aspects of identity, and play, that make it unique for starters.
The playful yet immensely serious way that NAFO acts makes it hard to co-opt.
Remember, this is all in a paradigm of positional attack and defense, where adversaries try to position us as racist or warmongers, and themselves as righteously sanctimonious voices in the wilderness.
Remember, this is all in a paradigm of positional attack and defense, where adversaries try to position us as racist or warmongers, and themselves as righteously sanctimonious voices in the wilderness.
And the whole time this is happening, like... #megathread is still going. Those "Vatnik Soup" threads are still going; so are those *amazing* Gruby the cat memes. And people are still supporting each other, and Ukraine.
Community health is the metric that matters, not agreement.
Community health is the metric that matters, not agreement.
When our current "f**k with MAGA idiots" fad has passed, and we're onto our next thing, and the next thing...
That's what's going to keep NAFO a force to be reckoned with.
Not the things we say or the enemies we choose; how we help each other.
That's what's going to keep NAFO a force to be reckoned with.
Not the things we say or the enemies we choose; how we help each other.
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