Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/11/16/pentagon-retweeted-donald-tr.html
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That was MY pentagon that retweeted it.
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Sentiment aside, you would think the solution to potentially embarrassing Twitter flubs would be to stop using Twitter already.
Why does the Pentagon even have a Twitter account?
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Yup. A social media presence is highly valuable if your place of work manufactures gaming keyboards.
Not so much if your place of work bombs foreign entities.
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Everyone I knew, assumed Trump would not be elected president because it was such a manifestly Bad Idea. We weren’t wrong that it would be a Bad Idea, we were wrong that it couldn’t happen for that reason.
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So that’s how the Deep State is resisting Trump. Very subtle!
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Because public endorsement of violence is necessary to legitimise it…
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Why is this worth mentioning? It’s either a mistake, or a piece of culture jamming indistinguishable from a mistake. There is literally nothing to see here.
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Too true. We are tasked with pattern matching a billion sources of input in a new virtual world whose ultimate agency is so utterly baffling that in the past handful of months we’ve all sat back on a primeval granite rock in the foggy woods, scratched our heads, and contemplated “what does it all mean?”
But, at the end of the day, you know what? Go and re-watch the film “All the President’s Men” and recite the crucial mantra: “Follow the Money”…
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Because Twitter is a highly effective distributor of propaganda.
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Because it is amusing, unlike when the US military make equally stupid mistakes with some of their lethal equipment.
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Sokath, his eyes still covered.
Temba, his arms open.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
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