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Sep 18 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
A major reason for this primitive manipulation of political labels -- calling people "far right" who plainly aren't -- is left politics long opposed an array of institutions (CIA, FBI, DHS, corporate media, state/corporate censors) that, since 2016, left-liberals see as allies:
Mainstream "left" commentators in the US -- meaning the dominant DNC-loyal faction ("I'm literally a Socialist, dude, and vote for Gavin Newsom") barely ever speaks of these institutions.

Criticism of CIA, FBI, Big Tech censorship, NATO wars thus now codes as right-wing.
The more important point: old concepts of "left v. right" still may define where one falls on culture wars, but "pro-establishment v. anti-establishment" is the far bigger metric beyond it.

Since the establishment despises Trump, left-liberals became more pro-establishment.🤷‍♂️

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Sep 18
One of the most repellent things I've seen in US politics is how Dems and media allies made such a flamboyant, melodramatic display of feigning concern about the border, then just stopped soon as Biden became president, even though little changed:

nationalreview.com/news/border-pa…
Whenever I'd ask left-liberal colleagues and friends what Trump did worse than Bush/Cheney or justified Nazi claims, they'd say: treatment of migrants at the border.

That AOC did this, then never once bothered even to pretend by visiting the border under Biden, is gross: Image
And now you have all kinds of blue-city Mayors -- who constantly denounced those concerned about mass migration in their communities of being white nationalists -- screaming loudly about how they can't support immigrants and how the US Govt must stop it immediately.
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Sep 18
Twitter's former chief censor, Yoel Roth, has a NYT op-ed today lamenting the major backlash against the censorship regime that was installed after the 2016 election, when Dems and establishment institutions decided a free internet was too dangerous:

nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opi…
Some of the attacks on Roth, and violent threats, were wrong. Too much was personalized on him. The villain is the censorship regime Dems and other institutions of power imposed after 2016.

But when you prohibit people from speaking, you force them outside democratic processes. Image
The backlash against this systemic online censorship regime is long overdue and still too timid. It's genuine despotism.

But it's happening. Tech executives feel pressured to reject Dems' demands. Free speech platforms are thriving.

And the appellate court ruling is crucial.👇 Image
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Sep 15
If you thought the tens of billions of US dollars unaccountably flying around Ukraine was as a huge boondoggle to Raytheon, Boeing, CIA and Kiev oligarchs and politicians, wait until to you see what the vultures of BlackRock and JP Morgan do with Ukraine's reconstruction:🤑🤑🤑
Irrelevant coincidence

abc.net.au/news/2023-01-2…
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One more boring and irrelevant coincidence
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Sep 10
I was unaware of the legal obligation which requires all private citizens and businesses to act in immediate, complete and unthinking alignment with the US Govt's foreign policy goals, and to immediately obey all war requests from US "allies."

That sounds rather...

fascist.
If all Americans are duty-bound to give Ukraine whatever it wants, what to make of citizens who rejected Zelensky's pleas to go to Ukraine, pick up arms, and help them fight the Russian Army?

Lack of soldiers is a major reason Ukraine isn't winning:

theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…
It's also genuinely alarming how little value Western elites now assign to the possibility of a major escalation of this war in Ukraine to other parts of Europe and/or the possibility of nuclear weapons being used.

They're acting like children playing war games online.
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Sep 9
In one of the most significant 1st Amendment victories in years, a 5th Circuit panel (only one of whom is a Trump appointee) rules that the Biden WH, the FBI, CDC, and Surgeon General violated Americans' core free speech rights by coercing Big Tech to censor on their command. Image
The appellate court largely upheld a court ruling from June. In doing so, it explained: courts have "rarely been faced with a coordinated campaign" of censorship "of this magnitude orchestrated by federal officials." The result was "suppressing millions of free speech postings." Image
The court barred the agencies it found to have threatened and "commandeered" Big Tech censorship -- the WH, the FBI, the CDC, and the Surgeon General -- from further coercion of this type.

It was particularly scathing about the FBI's censorship of domestic political speech.
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Sep 8
Self-identified Communists for the ADL.❤️

These soft DNC leftists spent the whole week insisting that their support for the ADL in its censorship campaign against Musk didn't mean they actually like the ADL.

This new candor should be cathartic and make them feel better.
It might seem surprising that this crowd of DNC leftists would align themselves with *ADL*, including many who ADL called anti-Semites.

But as I've been saying, they have *no higher priority* than censoring the internet, and thus see ADL - like the CIA/DHS - as their key ally.
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I can't stress this enough:

After Brexit and Trump, the neoliberal establishment in the West was genuinely traumatized.

Their main conclusion: it's too dangerous to allow the internet to be free. It leads to outcomes we can't control. And the *mainstream* left fully agrees.
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