I'm partway through an advance copy of this book, and I recommend it. Though if the named folks here make you sick to your stomach, then maybe you should avoid it. It's a good exploration of wtf has happened to these folks over the last few years. - ThreadSky

mmasnick.bsky.social • 80 days ago

I'm partway through an advance copy of this book, and I recommend it. Though if the named folks here make you sick to your stomach, then maybe you should avoid it. It's a good exploration of wtf has happened to these folks over the last few years.

Reposted from Eoin Higgins

My new book is about Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and more.

It comes out in February—preorder now

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riehledad.bsky.social•80 days ago

Probably not going to buy it but I'd love the Cliff notes version, how did taibbi turn into such a sucker?

helloandrew.bsky.social•80 days ago

I’ve been trying to figure this out for years as I have known many of these people personally, and I was shocked, but also intrigued by the fact that basically every single one of them had either a well-known drug addiction problem, or some other financial desperation in their lives before 2016.

mjharlen.bsky.social•80 days ago

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jcsalterego.bsky.social•80 days ago

was it this https://bsky.app/profile/jcsalterego.bsky.social/post/3l5wehpqabt2t

lauratrierweiler.bsky.social•80 days ago

They do indeed make me ill.

webrant.bsky.social•80 days ago

Oh, they've always been operatives. It was just harder to tell before someone started so obviously pulling their strings.

samsuth.bsky.social•79 days ago

Will check it out but Jonathan Taplin did a terrific job of identifying this cabal last year in The End of Reality - still timely, prescient, accurate and oh so relevant.

mmasnick.bsky.social•79 days ago

That's kind of funny given that Taplin spent the better part of the last decade living in an alternate reality as well, blaming everything he didn't like online on dark shadows controlling Google. He insisted repeatedly that I was controlled by Google when I called bullshit on him.

weedbay.net•80 days ago

Steal this book and can we expect an Audible?

johnfallot.bsky.social•80 days ago

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digiphile.bsky.social•80 days ago

The coda to this tonight is something

cypherreports.bsky.social•80 days ago

Is TYT mentioned at all?

sandy5.bsky.social•80 days ago

Darn, I had bet on Russia as their monetary influencers.

bikeengineer.bsky.social•80 days ago

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matttwomey.bsky.social•80 days ago

Compelling premise.

palafo.bsky.social•80 days ago

Very curious about Greenwald

wytch.bsky.social•79 days ago

Weirdo libertarian stumbled ass backwards into the scoop of the century.

He's honestly not that hard.

xvf17.bsky.social•80 days ago

Available on Barnes and Nobel as an eBook.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/owned-eoin-higgins/1145688413?ean=9781645030485

technursejon.bsky.social•80 days ago

And if you do buy the book, please buy it from a local book store and not Amazon.

theseer.bsky.social•80 days ago

for Greenwald I swear I always thought it must be some kompromat ... he fell soooo hard

cypherreports.bsky.social•80 days ago

He was a libertarian and that means always prone to anti establishment based fascism

theseer.bsky.social•79 days ago

true. I'm Italian... I always struggled to understand libertarians other than free-market capitalists... so yes his ideology has always been dubious but he used to have some journalistic skills... now he's just a pundit. as for Taibbi, he always was just a creep

wytch.bsky.social•79 days ago

He used to have people near him with journalistic skills he could take credit for. Important distinction.

xc90v8.bsky.social•80 days ago

I read the brazilian hustler, half his age, he married was much more venal and... entrepreneururial... when it came to making lots of money, which Greenwald then did....and they both got used to it.

theseer.bsky.social•79 days ago

I don't really understand how he makes money... from his rumble channel?

xc90v8.bsky.social•79 days ago

This was the tip of the iceberg in my opinion. They claim they were "duped." I have my doubts. The right is awash in such marginal characters living very large...

noteom.bsky.social•79 days ago

also I want to add that this is the pitfall of placing ppl on a linear political spectrum

noteom.bsky.social•79 days ago

nobody asked, but I first heard of + followed greenwald in 2016/17 when I didn't know who anyone was + was mass following journos + such
so I just had his tweets to go by, and they were always very suspect
tl;dr nothing happened to these ppl -- they were always bullsh*tters

mkultra3579.bsky.social•79 days ago

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akchick.bsky.social•79 days ago

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theericmcnulty.bsky.social•80 days ago

Might I suggest we all buy it through independent bookstores, not Amazon?

kneew.bsky.social•80 days ago

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eoinhiggins.bsky.social•80 days ago

🙏

jdsantos.com•80 days ago

10/10 title, I’m sold

imperiledreader.bsky.social•80 days ago

Is it the misogyny? It seems like it might be the misogyny.

noupside.bsky.social•80 days ago

What, is Matt Taibbi a grifter hack or something?

1loafofmeat.bsky.social•80 days ago

Or is he a narcissist?
I guess these things aren't mutually exclusive...

silentbob-x.bsky.social•77 days ago

He used to write good stuff for Rolling Stone then had a falling out and left when Jann Wenner didn't get on the Bernie bus with him when they didn't endorse him for president.

jokictripdoub.bsky.social•80 days ago

I think he’s a Russian asset personally.

jfive.bsky.social•80 days ago

I used to listen to his podcast, I liked the co-host. It was aptly named "Useful Idiots" that should have been a clue.

kevincarson1.bsky.social•80 days ago

He and Mark Ames bragged about rape back in their eXile days.
And he's been one of those Dirtbag Left types who hate "shitlibs" more than actual fascists -- if they even hate actual fascists at all -- for years.

luddwasright.bsky.social•80 days ago

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