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Lindsay Beyerstein
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She's an award-winning documentary filmmaker & investigative journalist. Sidney Judge for @SidneyHillman. (inglés y español) Profile pic by @cab1998
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Nov 6, 2024 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Oct 13, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jul 31, 2024 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Jul 30, 2024 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Apr 5, 2024 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Feb 11, 2024 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Jul 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There's. Video.
politico.com/news/2023/07/1… Watch for yourself what that lying piece of shit RFKjr said about the covid virus supposedly being genetically engineered to spare Chinese people and Ashkenazi Jews:
May 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There's a glimmer of sense in this observation amid all the moralizing bullshit. We are more aware of depression today because we can name it, discuss it, and there's an incentive to be open about it because there are effective treatments. So, yes, we do have to be careful about what conclusions we draw from statistics about mental illness today compared to even a generation or two ago, let alone a century.
May 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is really bad. Not only did Diane Feinstein get a heretofore undisclosed case of brain shingles, she ghosted the Democratic Party during her recovery: nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/… "At home in San Franci... That's in addition to the worrying exchange Feinstein had with a Slate reporter in which she didn't seem to know that she'd been absent from the Senate for months.
May 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Putting the call out to historians and anyone else who might have known Norm Cohn of the University of Sussex. If you have memories, I'd like to hear them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Co… Because wishing is free: I'd especially like to know about the period of his life when he worked for the intelligence service and personally interviewed SS men about their motives for engaging in genocide.
May 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The whole "AI could cause harm to the world" spiel from CEOs who stand to profit from AI harming the world is nauseating: washingtonpost.com/technology/202… This is like drug dealers who take credit for overdoses because it means their product is strong. Except fentanyl is real and artificial intelligence is an illusion.
May 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Who is this CEO, Elizabeth Holmes? Why do they care whether their employees eat sweets? And if they really want to know, why not just ask outright instead of pretending they want another kind of answer? Even people who rarely eat sweets probably have a favorite.
May 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Hasn't Simone Gold been evicted from the AFLDS house? This year, the AFLDS board announced its intent to initiate eviction proceedings against her with a view to selling the house. The house was purchased with AFLDS funds, and it was purchased in AFLDS' name. All sides agree on that. The question was whether Gold got approval from the board to buy it.
May 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Gatekeeping? I don't think that word means what you think it means. I'm glad you're not keeping secret the default diet culture advice for the last fifteen years?
May 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The current headline for this op/ed is even more fashy than what they dared to put on twitter: "When the rule of Law Fails Us." The rule of law didn't fail us. We have a legal right to defense, but if we go and kill someone based purely on vibes, we'll catch a homicide charge. Image At least, we'll catch a homicide charge if the rule of law is working correctly. It's not open season out there. The fact that it's not open season is evidence that the rule of law holds, not that it has failed anyone.
May 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
That's two public urination cases in the last three months that have ended in a fatal shooting. The guy in Florida who shot a public urinator and pled Stand Your Ground and the underage urinator with the AR-15. Two that we know of. Add this to whatever the right column is for the dude who allegedly shot a smalltime parking scammer dead through the back over $40 and returned to his dinner date.
May 15, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
The funniest allegation against Rudy Giuliani in the new lawsuit is the claim that it's time to “get over the Passover” because “it was like 3,000 years ago." thedailybeast.com/noelle-dunphys… A lot of the allegations in this lawsuit seem difficult to believe, even of Rudy Giuliani. It reads like fanservice.
May 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Format and tone. If this is really about holding Trump's feet to the fire, reporters need to get a lot more adversarial. Like BBC-level scorched earth. Obviously, Trump won't agree to those terms, but who cares? If he won't submit to a sufficiently rigorous interview there's no point in platforming him. He's obviously there to lie and repeat the same nonsense he spews everywhere else.
May 14, 2023 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
Today is Protocols of the Elders of Zion day in book proposal land. One of the most depressing days for combination of venality, stupidity, and popularity of the damned thing. You run most of the world and own all the money but you're meeting in a cemetery?
May 13, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
Every conspiracy theory has looped back to antisemitism since Barruel blamed the Illuminati for the French Revolution. At least. Soon after Barruel published his magnum opus blaming the Illuminati, the Masons, and the French enlightenment philosophers for the French Revolution, he got an pseudonymous letter purporting to hip him to the fact that the Jews were in on it.
May 13, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Seems way more likely that AI will be used to spark low-tech pogroms than that it's going to fool the people with the launch codes, who already have elaborate protocols and procedures for authenticating who they're talking to. The people who gatekeep launch codes are already acutely aware that impersonation is an issue and technology is evolving rapidly.