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Last year I met with a source to learn more about how the alt-right was financed. What they explained was a shell game wherein Peter Theil would take a meeting and then later Jeff Giesea would work with them to set up an LLC "production company" that would receive Theil capital. pic.twitter.com/u1FgBgPNCf— The Sparrow Project (@sparrowmedia) September 11, 2020

Every one of these "production shell companies" that Thiel and them finance each have a marketing budget. That budget goes to click farms and they don't just promote the project, they drive engagement by pissing people off and everyone keeps falling for the fake negativity.

Ya'll don't have to be weird, aggressive and insincere anymore. Just say thinkgs that you really care about and we'll actually get workers rights reforms and honest management of public goods.

I left my wallet at my bodega. got it back with cash in it. I lady I never met before and never will kindly demanded I get rung out before her even though I got out of the line to find something at the grocery store. If you stop letting twitter set the tone for your life, you'll see how you're surrounded by kindness.

Stop getting angry over fake comments and start feeling optimist that most of us are actually nice people when we're not on the internet.

  • PopCultureIsTheCIA [he/him]
    7·
    4 years ago

    https://www.stratcomcoe.org/jeff-giesea-its-time-embrace-memetic-warfare

    This is the tactic. The optics are "lets make sure Joe Rogan is the loudest voice in podcasting because he's the only person dumb enough to believe every single thing we have Bret Weinstein tell him on air".

    You think you're taking in real information when you're on twitter but every dumb shit, self defeating comment on the internet is coming from marketing interns hired by Geisea. You still think there are meaningful numbers of trolls just because you take "like counts" and "shitty comments" at face value.

    • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Stop pigeonholing me dingus. You're having an argument with some person in your head who isn't actually replying to you right now. Reply to me, not a strawman. Either quote where I said anything you just accused me of believing or shut the fuck up.

          • PopCultureIsTheCIA [he/him]
            8·
            4 years ago

            I have never once called you an idiot and I'm sorry you read it that way. I guess I don't understand why the people here don't seem capable or interested in talking to someone they might disagree with. Why are you viewing my ideas as an attack?

            • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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              4 years ago

              The title of your thread implies we all have some sort of misunderstanding. So you start off with a critique. I argue back with a slight bit of sarcasm to point out how your solution to the problem we all have is to commit the same error in logic, but on the other side. Then I explain why your views on posting are contradictory. Next you start telling me everything I believe and think about posting, which isn't based on anything but your own prejudices. You didn't even read what I said you just pressed on with your own argument. That's not talking. Now you're trying to frame it as we're too sensitive to entertain contrary ideas? Pathetic.

              Looking through your history there's a lot of idealism there. Your politics just don't seem developed enough. That's okay, we were all there, but you need to work on that shit dude. Just some examples:

              Vote for Biden and then lets impeach him for voter suppression. Thats the most optimal strategy for workers rights going forward

              ???

              I completely agree. I just think it actually matters if we’re going for “positive influence” or “negative influence”. I dont think activism needs leadership, it just needs to be positive. Good ideas spread for free and bad ideas need money and authority behind them.

              Pure idealism.

              The tumor isn’t trump, its Manafort, Black and Stone and lobbying in general.

              lib shit. as if lobbying not existing would fix things.

              I kinda think nearly all of us are here because we want to help workers but that we’ve all been tricked into never caring, never trying and just being sarcastic edge lords.

              13 days ago. This is what I mean by having an argument in your head.

              Vote for the least destructive person and then engage in direct action on behalf of good people. There isn’t one election. We have a whole life’s worth of voting ahead of us. Think about what it would mean for 10 million young voters to say “I will only ever vote for the furthest left candidate”. Well if your job is being in office, your job becomes “moving to the left”.

              Kindness + Market Principles = Shrinking Capitalism until its a safe mini-game in a healthy society.

              Absolute insanity. No material basis in the slightest. Liberalism. Kindness + market principles = shrinking capitalism. What the fuck? That's not how capitalism works. That's not how math works. None of this makes sense. Please, and I hate to pull this card, read theory.

              • PopCultureIsTheCIA [he/him]
                7·
                4 years ago

                Why not just ignore the negative parts and appreciate the positive? I am actively trying to shake my own internal negativity. You realize the algorithms DO work. They change out how we feel based on the input material we take in. But what if we don't have to take EVERY piece of it in the same way?

                Do you think I'm being funded by a rightwing influence peddling, money laundering conservative think take? If not, there's no reason to pretend any of the bad parts of what I'm saying are actually going to matter.

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            That comment didn't even come across as angry, just calling him a silly name for getting worked up over stuff that actually doesn't matter enough to be angry about.

            Edit: I knew I recognized this name, this is the "vote Biden or else" guy. Glad there are still libs to dunk on here.