1/ Since you asked, and I love your work, I'll tell you.
This is a professional political attack. Three waves one right after the other is not a coincidence. Good spacing, good timing, so it's absolutely professional.
2/ The video compilation of Rogan saying the n-word was dropped by @patriottakes 6 days ago. You see the video in the tweet in pic 1, and patriottakes takes credit for "republishing" the information in pic 2.
That they take credit is important and you'll see why shortly...
Well, they are a professional political organization. In fact, they are a Democrat "Super PAC" (more on that in a moment) run by 3 brothers
4/ Ben, Brett, and Jordan Meisales.
All of them have worked in media and have expertise in understanding and manipulating Media.
The most important thing for us is that Brett was a social media manager for Ellen Degeneres, and is an expert editor. Which matter because...
6/ @patriottakes works with @MeidasTouch, and I'd say it's a safe bet that given their expertise in social media management that the n-word video was created by Meidastouch.
BUT WE ARE NOT DONE.
MeidasTouch is a Super PAC.
Well, what's a super PAC you ask?
Well....
7/ A Super PAC is political advocacy group with a special twist: "super PACs may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, associations and individuals, then spend unlimited sums to overtly advocate for or against political candidates." (opensecrets.org)
8/ This means that a Super PAC can take in unlimited amounts of money, and then spend however they want politically.
Meidastouch is a SuperPAC. They can take in as much cash as theg want. 4.7 million for the 2020 cycle and 1.5 Million for the 2022 cycle to be exact.
Now....
9/ To recap: Meidastouch, a SuperPAC which can collect as much cash as it wants from pretty well anywhere, and is a professional strategy and media firm run by people with deep ties in entertainment, likely had a hand in the n-word video @patriottakes used to attack Joe Rogan...
10/ So the question is....why?
Why are they doing this, and what do they have to gain?
I think a clue can be found in the letter @patriottakes wrote about all of this.
Look at that highlighted part. What does that tell you??? What does that look like to you????
11/ Patriottakes is bragging about their millions of views and how they made the video the center of the national conversation.
They are bragging about their CLOUT
Rogan is the one guy the leftists can't cancel. If a group could cancel Rogan it would be a MASSIVE show of power
12/ Woke people and legacy media groups have been trying to cancel Rogan for ages because he steals their audience and doesn't play by their rules.
Rogan also offers his enormous platform to people like Jordan Peterson that woke progressives in media circles really don't like...
13/ The group that takes out Rogan would gain a lot of clout and a **lot** of power.
The group that can say "we cancelled Rogan. If we can get him, we can get you too," would be able to swing a very large stick.
And that's what this is ultimately about, it's a play for power.
14/ In short, Meidastouch is a political SuperPAC that is very likely behind the @patriottakes account. They're attempting a viral hit on Joe Rogan so they can take him out both because they don't like him and because they want monetizeable clout for having done so...
If every person who Joe helped lut said "we are with him and we will tell our audiences to cancel spotify if they cancel Joe" this would be over in a day.
The next thing...
16/ If everyone won't stand up, we need brave leople to lead organic pushback.
@BretWeinstein has been doing this with his "thanks Joe Rogan" hashtage
17/ It needs to be made clear to slotify that if they cave they will pay a significant cost.
We have to make that clear.
They need to pay a cost for this.
If we can do those things I think we can protect a guy who has done so much for so many.
/fin
PS/
Just in case anyone still thinks the attack on Rogan was organic, we have pre-made scripts out there about cancelling Rogan, and they're the same word for word. That ain't organic 👇👇👇
PPS/
Meidastouch absolutely advises and works with Patriottakes, and by their own admission meidastouch helps patriottakes with strategy, building and boosting their fundraising profile.
This is all professional, and so was the hit on Rogan.
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I think Critical Theory is a lot like what Robert Nozick called Normative Sociology: "The study of what the causes of things *ought* to be"
Critical Theorists analyze problems in terms of what they *want* the cause to be, rather then what the cause of that problem actually is.
The result is that there are large number of errors because rather then dealing with the thing that is actually creating the problem, they end of trying to solve the problem by analyzing the thing that they were hoping was the cause of the problem.
A problem occurs when Critical Theorists doing "Normative Sociology" think everyone is obligated to agree that the cause of the problem is whatever the Critical Theorists say it is; and then go about morally shaming and scolding anyone who disagrees about the cause of the problem
1/ The attack on Winston Churchill and the revisionist WWII history is a the right wing version of the "everything is problematic" move the woke have been using for years.
It's a right wing 1619 project that wants to destroy the "Post-war consensus" by making America look bad.
2/ This is a right-wing "Critical Theory" of America's involvement in WWII.
The goal is to delegitimize the American order that emerged in the wake of WWII, and so the people doing this magnify America's mistakes during WWII and minimize the horror of what the Nazi's did.
3/ Doing this allows them sow doubt as to who was really responsible for WWII and this then allows them to go about undercutting and subverting the moral authority that America gained by helping to defeat the Nazi's.
They want to drain the moral authority of post-war America.
1/ Darryl Cooper is to WWII what Norman Finklestein is to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Cooper buries people in historical minutia knowing the average person isn't equipped with a deep enough understanding of WWII to properly contextualize the historical points Cooper uses.
2/ The average persons understanding of WWII does not have a high enough resolution to historically locate and properly contextualize the points Cooper brings up, so they aren't properly equipped to determine the relevance, importance, or implications of the facts Cooper presents
3/ When someone can't integrate a set of facts into their understanding of something, they can become intellectually disoriented and begin looking for a way to make sense of the new facts.
This disorientation is what Cooper is trying to create with his deluge of minutia.
1/ Critical Theory gets almost everything wrong. Here's Why:🧵
There is a certain type of argument one often hears coming from the “woke” Social Justice left (often associated with Critical Theory), which claims that quite literally everything is political.
2/ The argument is that the intellectual force of every justification depends on accepting the value structure that is assumed by whatever it is one is defending. The defense of anything relies on values pre-supposed by what one is trying to defend.
3/ This argument is taken by Critical Theorists to be proof that rational justifications merely assume the values and validity of the very thing they are justifying, and so the justifications only work if you already accept the validity of the thing in question.
Imagine how bewildering the world must seem to 10 year old boys:
Boys shirts are about being lazy and playing video games while Girls shirts are about being future CEO'S and leaders.
They call masculinity toxic and say boys are privileged while also saying the future is female
On the one hand if all the boys win, thats very bad cause boys winning is not fair to girls, but girls only like the boys who win.
And also, all girls winning is good, all boys winning is oppression.
How are 10 year old boys supposed to make sense of this?
I'm genuinely asking this because the male S U I C I D E epidemic is at an all time hight, and the rates of men offing thenselves starts to take off at 15.
1/ One reason Gender Ideologues hijacked our institutions is that woke activists don't understand how *LEGITIMACY* works
I'll explain:
The woke think legitimacy is a matter of power and authority: A thing is legitimate when people with power and authority say it's legitimate...
2/ As such, they think that the legitimacy of various types of medical interventions (IE: puberty blockers, mastectomies, and cross sex hormones for 15 year olds) depends entirely on whether or not the people with the power and authority in the medical system say it is.
Now...
3/ Most of us believe that the legitimacy of medical treatments rest on a foundation of objective truth, objective standards of quality, rigorous criteria for safety, attention to detail, and careful application of sturdy medical ethics.