It's wild how twitter has become a full blown propaganda machine for the conservatives in the same way it did for the AfD and Donald Trump. Yet the people who fear mongered so much about the "twitter files" are eerily silent (Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Jimmy Dore etc) - ThreadSky

theserfstv.bsky.social • 1 day ago

It's wild how twitter has become a full blown propaganda machine for the conservatives in the same way it did for the AfD and Donald Trump.

Yet the people who fear mongered so much about the "twitter files" are eerily silent (Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Jimmy Dore etc)

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oneradlad.bsky.social•1 day ago

Turns out no one likes the taste of humble pie.

doogie2k.bsky.social•1 day ago

No points for working out why (they agree with it)

okgrown.bsky.social•1 day ago

Their checks cleared….so they don’t have shit to say.

jeffie1000.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk bought it to ensure the Arab spring could never happen again. It being able to be used as a right wing propaganda outlet like all of mainstream media demonstrates right wing intolerance in a vacuum. It isn't enough for a dissenting space to not exist they want complete monopolies on thought.

echo-of-savages.bsky.social•20 hours ago

they are cowards. easily intimidated by beer-gut, white-hair goatee oakley sunglasses wearers

bajmihal.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I bet if I had $10M I could make the all care again.

onclejef.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm glad I dont go there anymore, but I did notice a couple of very vocal commenters with names I never seen before spitting all kinds of nonsense in the Radio-Canada website comments...

They're not making friends, and even the usual reactionaries avoided them...

maaaatttt.bsky.social•1 day ago

I remember when Matt taibbi was a serious journalist and not a credulous dupe.

919billsfan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, wtf happened to him. I used to read him years ago.

grantmillar.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Look at his history. He spent his early years raping his way through Moscow.

It's not that crazy to assume his sudden shift in favour of Oligarchy might have something to do with (at least a fear of) kompromat.

keithjpowell.com•1 day ago

Almost like it was manufactured bullshit.

lordmimey.bsky.social•1 day ago

T'was never about reality but about a narrative of a (false) anti-RW "bias" (that never existed) on Twitter in order to justify making it a total RW shithole.

Same reason why the Right constantly screeches about "Liberal media! Fake news!", because it justifies those becoming more right-wing too.

timeskipper1.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's like, the main playbook of every fascist. Make up fake threats to justify a real crackdown.

lordmimey.bsky.social•1 day ago

And the GOP have been using it for decades. Sadly they only do it cuz people are fooled/tricked/lied into believing that there must be something there, because "Why would the GOP lie to us, unlike *those* darn libs/Leftists."

Unfortunately it works time after time after time and how Trump even won.

timeskipper1.bsky.social•1 day ago

The right starts a narrative and keeps repeating it, the centrists with their finger to the wind hear "oh people are saying it, it must be popular, let's run on this".

timeskipper1.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's also imo worked because centrists were always eager to throw marginalized groups under the bus for the illusion of appealing to the right. Think of Gavin Newsom's appalling treatment of the homeless, the calls to ditch trans people, and how Kamala said she was tougher than Trump on immigrants.

cognitivedissident.bsky.social•1 day ago

Funny, that…

jambruce.bsky.social•1 day ago

Those names have all made the decision to appeal to the fascist for monetary reasons. They grift for cash and nobody knows if they even have a moral compass anymore. They are just eating off, and creating for the same slop pile the fascists are now.

grippysockgoblin.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have wondered what Jimmy Dore is up to these days. But I have not found the courage to tune in.

gario.bsky.social•1 day ago

every once in a while i see a greenwald post, and it's a 50/50 chance he's either siding with the administration or getting dogpiled for posting mild criticism

those people are fucking cooked

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