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Feb 4 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Trump wants extremist Joe Kent to head the National Counter Terrorism Center which is tantamount to legalizing right wing domestic terror: apnews.com/article/2022-m…
"Republican Joe Kent [...] has also courted prominent white nationalists and posed recently for a photograph with a media personality who has previously described Adolf Hitler as a “complicated historical figure” who “many people misunderstand.” [AP]
"Kent is also a close political ally of Joey Gibson, the founder of the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer." Kent paid a self-admitted Proud Boy with a restraining order for alleged DV over $10,000 for "consulting."

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Lindsay Beyerstein Profile picture
Nov 6, 2024
It all comes down to the information environment. Inflation is down, growth is up, border interceptions are down, crime is down, vaccines work great--and none of it matters. Trump created a conspiracist permission structure to ignore or deny all the facts and focus on hate.
Tariffs are taxes on imports and China's not going to pay for them. Trump lost in 2020. Trump ran a campaign diametrically opposed to consensual reality.
Schools are not performing sex change operations, migrants with super-weapons have not taken over Times Square or the third-largest city in Colorado, migrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans. Fluoride prevents tooth decay.
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Oct 13, 2024
Warzel doesn't single out social media as the primary cause of the information crisis. His main point is that there's an assault on all forms of legitimate expertise, which is platform neutral.
A lot of Warzel's examples are from social media, because that's where so much of the most extreme discourse is playing out. But he also talks about TV and newspapers. A lot of the victims get their death threats by old fashioned phone calls and emails.
There are structural reasons why social media is contributing--starting with ability to build a large audience without gatekeeping and monetize it, and algorithms that reward engagement (positive and negative) creating incentives to spread more extreme messages.
Read 8 tweets
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Jul 31, 2024
JD Vance blurbed Jack Posobiec's book "Unhumans" which argues that Democrats have forfeited their human rights because they are part of a communist conspiracy to destroy America. It's hard to overstate how extreme this argument is.
Even the John Birch Society, bugfuck anticommunist conspiracy theorists though they were, did not deny that Democrats were human beings.
I wish I could tell you that Unhumans is fringe but it's currently #12 on the Amazon bestseller list.
Read 12 tweets
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Jul 30, 2024
The weird attack works against MAGA because it's true. Their entire worldview is a set of interlocking conspiracy theories. They can't control their emotions. They're obsessed with other people's sex lives. They worship a 78-year-old felon as God's anointed messenger.
During Trump's trial, his acolytes showed up dressed like him. When Trump's ear got shot, they started wearing gauze on their ears to emulate their Orange Idol. They call him the God Emperor. It's all weird.
You don't think MAGA's weird? Two Words: My Pillow.
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Apr 5, 2024
So white rural voters aren’t mad, they just vote disproportionately for the candidate whose slogan is “I am your retribution.” Got it. politico.com/news/magazine/…
Nobody is claiming that geography is destiny. There are all kinds of people to be found across the country—but it’s daft to argue that Trump supporters aren’t mad.
As the Politico author suggests, there are millions of white rural Democrats. And who knows how many white rural socialists? They exist and we shouldn’t stereotype. But the author ties himself in knots to explain why the Trumpists don’t qualify as mad.
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Feb 11, 2024
It's fashionable to say Hofstadter was wrong and the paranoid style has always been central to American politics. But you can't read this and deny that there has been a sea change. Trump is promising to lead the Battle of Armageddon. Image
When Hofstadter wrote the paranoid style, huge swathes of American public, including much of the GOP was scandalized and shaken when Goldwater said extremism in defense of liberty was no vice.
People incorrectly conflate the paranoid style with conspiracy theories. The paranoid style is often associated with conspiracy theories, but there's more to it than that. It's a behavior pattern marked by overheated suspicion and hostility.
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