Dan Collen

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Works in research and digital media in Canada. Sometimes-journalist. Co-creator Hatepedia.ca. Words for gnet-research.org, antihate.ca, insightthreatintel.com, Vice.com, dancollen.medium.com, and elsewhere. Affililiate member cifrs.org.

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In a normal campaign, this would have dominated the weekend’s news. I wrote about @gregsargent.bsky.social’s scoop about the Christian nationalist GOP nominee for NC Gov calling for murder of his political enemies: ‘Some folks need killing’: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

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When your schtick is "I'm a leftist who hates Democrats and wants to destroy them," you soon find that the people who want to fund you destroying them are conservatives.

Not enough people understand this. The left doesn't have funding to force an icon. Billionaire RWers do and don't care if they had a few left-wing ideas in the past, so long as they help.

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isla

Between one and two of these examples are reporters depending on how much someone could stretch that definition. The rest are not.

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this isn’t horseshoe theory but rather an internet era phenomenon i call the “Grifter Ouroboros”

Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

In a heartbeat

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮

It will get me yelled at to state, but after two plus decades of seeing this trend play out again and again, I simply don’t trust the left not to fall for this over and over again.

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Idk, maybe listening to folks who said we shouldn’t support people who defend Assad or dismiss women in pink hats out of hand instead of viciously attacking them as tools of imperialism or centrists is instructive here

YEAH!

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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

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Absolutely surreal watching them end American democracy, just six dipshits in a room turning us into a monarchy and legally entrenched oligarchy, incredibly hard to parse this is as reality right now

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the debate’s a lot better if you don’t watch it but follow all The Onion posts instead

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tweeted this four years ago and it pretty much sums up my feelings on this shit

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My Julian Assange story is that we got him to walk back support for Gamergate by threatening to cancel his book launch party, and then after the party he walked back his walk back. I have never forgotten the flexibility of his convictions outside the public eye.

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Twenty Thousand Thorns

The opposite is certainly needed

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Twenty Thousand Thorns

I agree with that i just also think that portion of the left has been overly visible and represents the political left to people inside that bubble

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Peter Labuza

It does not help because it's obvious, there's no one saying otherwise, and you could be making one of a hundred fair points or none at all by emphasizing it

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WolfLawyer

Entirely wrong. Only one of the people mentioned in that post was put into the spotlight by the right and it's because she was legitimately harassed.

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Twenty Thousand Thorns

None of these people on their own are broadly representative of the left. Doesn't mean they don't have influence over people as talking heads.

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"Reichsbürger übernehmen einen Hof in der Uckermark und Neonazi-Label vertreiben aus ihren Geschäften heraus Hass-Musik und Szenekleidung: Verfassungsschutzbehörden in ganz Ostdeutschland sind alarmiert." #rechtsrocktsnicht

Rechtsextremisten nutzen immer mehr Immobilien: Dies sind die Brennpunkte in Brandenburgwww.maz-online.de Reichsbürger übernehmen einen Hof in der Uckermark und Neonazi-Label vertreiben aus ihren Geschäften heraus Hass-Musik und Szenekleidung: Verfassungsschutzbehörden in ganz Ostdeutschland sind alarmier...

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One of my best friends is Jewish, and -- quite rationally -- wary of hard-leftist spaces for reasons such as these. For me, these people are dire embarrassments. For her, they're dangerous. Just fundamentally unreliable people who can't tell triangulation from reaching fascism by a stack overflow.

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there really is a painful cycle of newly politically engaged people getting excited about revolutionary thinking, realizing it doesn’t work like that, and then either becoming cranks or normal liberals. while a lot of the annoying twitter libs were wrong about dirtbag leftists, plenty were right.

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Gluten-free Seitan

I think theres problems with how these people are championed and the values we look for in public voices but i also agree with this. Political celebritydom is a bad bet.

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chbarts

Our only criteria for platforming people is having one or two left wing opinions, hating liberals, being a little savvy with marketing in the age of the internet, and wanting to be famous

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There were 16 trans youth suicides after gender affirming care restrictions were implemented in the UK in 2020 compared with only 1 in the 7 years prior. Staff at the NHS attempted to cover it up. Hilary Cass knew but minimized what was happening. This is a massive scandal. Cass lied, kids died.

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some things we, as a society, have recently done to teens: -traumatized them with gun violence -vastly reduced their rights to reproductive healthcare -had a moral panic about their genders -abandoned them to the ravages of covid, destroying their immune systems it's not tiktok that fucked em up

New York bans ‘addictive feeds’ for teens - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/20/24182396/new-york-governor-social-media-law-parental-consent-algorithms

New York bans “addictive feeds” for teenswww.theverge.com States have been taking the lead on kids online safety.

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Force companies to build their own renewable power sources for AI, then when the industry collapses, nationalize the power sources

Oh hey tech firms what’s up, I found the miracle solution: throw this unwanted AI shit into the fucking trash where it belongs

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Oh hey tech firms what’s up, I found the miracle solution: throw this unwanted AI shit into the fucking trash where it belongs

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It is shocking to me that I can’t find a single outlet interested in a story about people in the GOP, involved with TPUSA, and/or with direct access to Trump going to a “f off Jew, I love H*tl*r” rally.

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During #Pride Month there has been threats of violence, incidents of vandalism, and protests targeting LGBTIQ events: -6 bomb threats -Dozens of protests -Hundreds of Pride flags vandalized -Numerous examples of hateful and violent anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric online More info below 👇🏼