Everything is Political

[rischka]

i don't think that's why he was locked up, more like if trump had hillary clinton locked up (he tried)

now we somehow can't lock trump up altho he should be locked up because he'll say it's political

i think he's hoping a civil war puts an end to the question

[rischka]

trump liked to call bolsonaro 'tropical trump' he must be bitterly disappointed he can't claim this win

let's hope it's a good omen

[pabs]

Michael Moore still reckons there's a blue wave coming, despite the polls (which he says are mostly inaccurate, republican-sponsored polls) so there's some hope for us to cling to.

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/statu ... 13WtptemYQ

good lord are they pissed. bannon is saying bolsonaro can't concede he has to fight

biden already congratulated lula. snide leftists on twitter saying he must be senile, we support right wing coups in latin america

see i'm a twitter addict, it's no use. i am using film hashtags on mastodon - maybe someone will show up

[pabs]

https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status ... 5516243973

[rischka]

that just isn't true i'm sorry to say. there absolutely is a master plan. the plan is to kill democracy. that's why lula's win is huge


https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/statu ... AaG7GXpI5Q

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1587 ... zX7lSb5a5A

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/ ... zX7lSb5a5A

same shit different decade. i'm gonna try to stop thinking about this for a week or so i've done all i can

[sally]

So lovely to see the complete joy from all the Brazilians in my twitter feed

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/158 ... NxYUdNF7hQ

[pabs]

He didn't want to buy it.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/11/03/e ... -marriage/

[rischka]

yes but look at who DID want him to buy it

the new blue check plan goes into effect next week. no one will be verified so anyone who wants to pay 8 dollars can get one. elon doesn't understand twitter.

content creators don't pay; they are paid. it's the trolls who all want a blue check. and now they'll have one. just in time for midterms

[rischka]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... -violence/




behold the power of right wing media. how many antifa terror attacks have we seen???

[rischka]

trump has been convinced to hold off on announcing his election campaign til after the midterm. so we have that to look forward to

yesterday a new york judge appointed oversight of his business to stop ongoing fraud which decision trump refers to as 'communism'


LOL elon update. activists are destroying free speech

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/158 ... fh8-PibYmA

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/sta ... Vn2sD9kXGQ

it looks like elon will destroy twitter to own the libs

[Lencho of the Apes]

It occurs to me this morning that Musk has been looking at Trump's career arc and wants to emulate it by being something "more than" one of the biggest business magnates; he wanted to buy an influential position within the culture. I assume his own politics are straight-down-the-line libertarianism, which is not a good thing...

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/15 ... 4hQEsK8tfg

when GOP takes the house they will investigate fleeing advertisers (along with biden, biden jr and whoever else trump is mad at)

so if this happens we're moving away from the free market and towards something like -- national socialism ? desantis style

brands are too 'woke' for trying to please everyone. only white straight christian people should be appeased. we've got a hell of a fight ahead

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1588 ... -7kLYi7gMQ

https://twitter.com/reckless/status/158 ... -7kLYi7gMQ

we need to lock up the billionaires til we figure out what's going on

[rischka]

WAIT -the capitalist system is BREAKING oooohhhhhhhh

[sally]

why does he think twitter is only in america tho

[rischka]

yep he's told the EU he'll comply with the new digital services act - then fired all the staff that would oversee something like that

on one hand there's germany with very strict rules around fascist content - on the other hand texas has outlawed any 'censorship' at all

it's absurd and he seems incredibly irresponsible. should be the ultimate proof that rich people are not smarter or better than anyone else lol - and that's their position - that voters should butt out and let them run things how they please without regulation

not shocked that someone raised in apartheid south africa would decide to aid the fascist takeover

[rischka]

obtw! msnbc fired tiffany cross yesterday after tucker carlson accused of her of inciting a race war like rwandan genocide

i'm not even joking. megyn kelly called her 'the most racist person on tv.' the cross connection was msnbc's highest rated weekend show

we're in the bad place

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyell ... 35d1532008

https://twitter.com/TiffanyDCross/statu ... GIVJztl9JA

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/tzimmer_history/sta ... 0FPPPXIAOw

our senate candidate. at least this one should lose. he's so creepy even Rs don't like him

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/mguariglia/status/1 ... 1j0Vy_nDfA

[Lencho of the Apes]

Manufacturing fake terrorists was going on long before Trump, Matt Taibbi wrote about it in Rolling Stone in I think the late oughts.

[rischka]

yeah mentioned in the tweet. what groups exactly were fake? ahh perhaps you mean this

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... es-881179/

trump was barely hiding it. taibbi got metoo'd awhile ago and is now an anti-cancel culture warrior. he was a good writer. i read RS for years

now he defends tucker carlson. he's a contrarian like greenwald. all voices welcome ofc! but i hate to see these guys defending fascists

and yes i get that they don't believe they ARE fascists and that russiagate was fake news etc. blah blah blah. they see IDPOL as the enemy

and scoffed at the idea that russia would invade ukraine etc. to my mind they are part of the red/brown alliance

edit: also the hunter's laptop story and this is why kanafani and i fought. we'll be hearing much more about that if GOP takes the house

[Lencho of the Apes]

The article I remember went into great detail to narrate the experience of a midwestern Muslim shmuck with no history of radicalism who responded favorably when government agents started feeding him a jihadi agenda

[rischka]

yeah i don't doubt many were entrapped in the 'war on terror'

i read those articles too. https://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/go ... rists.html

here's a whole book about it from 2013

Aaronson reports that through these elaborate and expensive sting operations involving informants and undercover agents posing as terrorists, the FBI has arrested—and the U.S. Justice Department has prosecuted—dozens of men who government officials say posed terrorist threats. He says evidence suggests, however, that some of those under FBI scrutiny did not have the capacity for terrorism were it not for FBI undercover agents providing the means, including weapons and logistical support.

Of these defendants caught up in FBI terrorism sting operations, an FBI informant was the person who led one of every three terrorist plots, and the FBI also provided all of the necessary weapons, money, and transportation.

Some of the FBI’s informants have strong financial incentives to find alleged terrorists, with the FBI rewarding them with $100,000 or more per case. Other informants are coerced into cooperating with the FBI for fear of deportation or criminal prosecution, records show.

wonder how many of these people are still at guantanamo. i really wanna get an ANTIFA tattoo now lol

[rischka]

i feel like we might got this? i dunno. i feel kind of good about it

edit: might delete this later

[nrh]

https://twitter.com/okbutstill/status/1 ... bm9Y0UelhA

[rischka]

he's telling everyone to vote republican now. and got all pissy about mastodon (which he calls masturbatedon) what a snowflake

https://twitter.com/RSPolitics/status/1 ... uSO2duNE-g