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Mar 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The phrase "free speech" -- and, increasingly, the values it represents -- absolutely now codes as a right-wing marker in US politics.

At every relevant Congressional hearing I watched over the last 3 years, Dems explicitly defended various regimes of censorship.
Under Trump, when Dems controlled Congress, they repeatedly summoned tech CEOs and threatened them with reprisals if they don't censor more.

At the #TwitterFiles hearings, virtually every Dem --explicitly - defended Big Tech's collaboration with CIA/FBI:

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In the Cold War, the US Security State went around implanting right-wing regimes in the name of stopping the USSR, so the left hated it.

Now CIA's ideology is neoliberalism. John Kirby said LBTG is a key prong of US foreign policy. CIA hated Trump. Thus:

For decades, CIA has been hated by the Brazilian left, for good reason: it toppled their democratically elected center-left President in 1964 and imposed a 21-year military regime.

Now, a liberal magazine celebrates how Biden and CIA helped Lula win:

prospect.org/world/how-joe-…

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Mar 23
The main wish inserted each morning into the prayers of every CNN and MSNBC host, and every NYT and WPost shareholder, is that Trump remain as prominent as possible.

Having him as the GOP nominee, then President again, is the jackpot. He saved their jobs and then made them rich:
Listen to @megynkelly on the absolutely vital role that @JoeNBC and @morningmika -- along with all other liberal cable hosts -- played in helping Trump win the GOP nomination. Their motives were highly self-interested and thus will repeat:

Obviously these people did everything possible to sabotage Trump while in office and then prayed he lost. That's all part of the drama. The point is they can't afford to have him go away.

Look every day at the headlines of these sites and shows. It's all Trump.
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Mar 22
The small problem with what @RepAuchincloss is saying here - China wants a system based on force, while the US wants one based on rules and democracy, and needs Brazil and other Global South countries to join - is that nobody outside a CNN studio believes this about the US:
The "emerging Global South countries" @RepAuchincloss names as ones that must join the US against China - given the US believes only in universal rules and democracy - is that (like Ukraine) most have had their democracies toppled by the US and thus view this claim as a joke.🤷‍♂️
I know that in the op-pages of the NYT and the Green Rooms of network and cable shows, the US is regarded all over the world as a beacon of democracy and "rules-based international order," but we have to confront the actual reality in the world:

nypost.com/2014/01/05/us-…
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Mar 21
Like most Dems, John Cornyn (R-TX) is accusing everyone opposed to the US proxy war in Ukraine of being Neville Chamberlain.

This was always a core neocon tactic: make sure Americans only know one historical event (WW2) and filter everything through it: Churchill or Chamberlain?
Every US enemy is Hitler. Every country neocons in both parties want to go to war with is Nazi Germany. There are no other historical events that exist.

Thus, you either support every new bipartisan war and be Glorious Churchill, or oppose it and get condemned as Chamberlain.
The fact that supporters of the US proxy war in Ukraine are the ones arming and funding literal Nazi militas such as Azov -- while accusing opponents of this policy of being Nazi appeasers -- is just one of those insane prongs of war propaganda too twisted to even dissect.
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Mar 21
Yesterday we sent a series of questions to this shady new Omidyar-funded group @resetdottech -- whose report AP blindly swallowed to claim "pro-Russia accounts" were behind concerns over the Biden Admin's response in East Palestine. They're the most basic questions. No answers:
Since employees of media corporations instructed their small but loyal herds to ignore the #TwitterFiles, they may not know that Bill Kristol already pulled this scam with "Hamilton68": what he claimed was a secret list of "pro-Kremlin accounts" that shaped countless headlines.
When Omidyar funded the Intercept at the height of our Snowden reporting, his main cause was press freedom. He did it to empower our reporting (and others) free of state persecution.

Since 2016, his obsession became Russiagate, so he funds a "disinformation" industry about that.
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Mar 20
I don't know what gay and lesbian movements others found, but the one that inspired me in the early 90s was based in core values of individual autonomy and the right to self-actualize.

*Forcing* others to wear flags and affirm slogans was not part of that, but on assault on it.
Americans over the past 2 decades reached a rough Culture War consensus based in the decisively US values of live-and-let-live. Your neighbor's choices aren't your business provided it's consensual.

That core consensus is unravelling and - yes - both sides are responsible.
It's about humiliation and power. Obviously, if a hockey player is treating LGBT colleagues or anyone in an abusive way, that's a legitimate matter for public debate. But trying to *force* people to wear your flags and utter your slogans is despotic:

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Mar 20
Please look at how well-trained @jrpsaki is for spewing outright lies with a straight face and authoritative tone.

Imagine how rotted and empty your soul has to be to say stuff like this just for careerist advancement.

These are the people who lecture you on "disinformation."👇
Years of literally studying to be a careerist liar - as that clip above plainly demonstrates - produces a lifetime of doing things like this.👇

Good luck on your new MSNBC show, Jen, where you'll undoubtedly spend your time lecturing everyone on the dangers of "disinformation":
By the way, do any NBC News reporters or MSNBC hosts stop for even one second and ask what it says about them that Jen Psaki can go from lying to serve the US Security State and the Biden WH to doing their jobs, without having to change a single thing? She just fits right in:
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