There’s a ferocious propaganda war happening on Twitter at the moment.
Fake accounts, honeypots, false flags, sockpuppets, etc. It’ll spill into other media; triple check everything before you trust it.
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If it’s collecting data, it’s dodgy.
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https://harpers.org/blog/2017/08/weekly-review-28/
Days before the Mexican government offered to send aid for the victims of a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in eastern Texas and caused catastrophic flooding in up to 50 counties and drove an estimated 30,000 people from their homes, one-time pornographic-film extra and current U.S. president Donald Trump issued a pardon for Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County who, during his 24-year tenure, held inmates in Korean War tents that reached temperatures of 141 degrees; referred to those tents as a “concentration camp” and the place “where all the Mexicans are”; called complaints from Latinos “civil rights crap”; said it costs more to “feed the dogs than it does the inmates,” whom he fed rotten green bologna; ran on his office’s website a “Mugshot of the Day” contest inviting visitors to vote for their favorite inmate images; shot footage of female inmates that could be viewed online; forced hundreds of inmates not yet convicted of any crime to march from one jail to another in pink underwear; oversaw guards who referred to Latino inmates as “wetbacks” and “Mexican bitches,” strapped to a chair a paraplegic inmate and then tightened the restraints until his neck broke, and forced a female inmate to give birth in shackles; said he was the “first in the world” to put women in a “chain gang”; admitted that his counsel had hired a private agent to investigate the wife of a judge who ordered him to stop racially profiling Latinos, a ruling he was later found in contempt of court for ignoring; claimed that all people crossing the Mexican border had swine flu; said he was “doing something good” because the Latino community was “leaving town”; asked a Latino waitress if it was “safe” to drink a glass of iced tea she had given him; was found to have inadequately investigated or ignored hundreds of sex crimes; opened a rape investigation into a political opponent and investigated for child molestation a former Phoenix mayor who disagreed with his treatment of Latinos; oversaw deputies who threatened to arrest a reporter for viewing public records and forced a man’s dog back into a burning house that they had set on fire; ran a jail with four times the suicide rate of county jails for Chicago or Miami; banned his inmates from drinking coffee and possessing pornographic magazines, and created an in-house radio station that broadcasted songs by Frank Sinatra; referred to his Italian-American bodyguards as his “mafia”; and chained together teenage inmates and forced them to bury the corpses of poor people. “More rain coming,” tweeted Trump.
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“I’ve never liked using Discord or things like that anyway,”
White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before Charlottesville -Propublica.org
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Fucking Idiots.
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https://twitter.com/lanadelraytheon/status/902710417625038848
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He is charged with firing a gun within 1,000 feet of a school.
Only that? Oh, FFS.
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Well, ok then.
“The statements was made by an individual, and they’re not indicative of the values and the facts that surround the Cobb County Police Department and this county in general.”
Yeah, right.
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Well, fuck.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump himself opposed this because it would mean displacing his hero Andrew Jackson.
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I would not feel the least bit sad if Arpaio were kidnapped and taken south of the border to be dealt with in a rude and hostile manner.
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Totally not racist, though. It’s just a common expression. Context be damned.
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And they wonder why I really don’t want to move back to Missouri.
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It’s racist and grammatically incorrect.
He should be hanged, by his balls. ‘Tall tree’ optional.
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Best thread I can think of for this:
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Hebdo, as usual, managing to simultaneously claim allegiance to the side of the good guys while also being stupid, destructive arseholes.
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