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Tankie Attack!

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Jim Stewartson
Jan 28, 2023
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Two of the most blatant and harmful Kremlin propagandists on the โ€œleftโ€ side of the horseshoe took shots at me over the last couple of days on Twitter. Both Matt Taibbi and Jimmy Dore thought they could own this particular lib. Iโ€™m not going to pretend I didnโ€™t enjoy it. Hereโ€™s some background on โ€œtankies.โ€

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a year ago ยท 41 likes ยท 7 comments ยท Jim Stewartson

The โ€œTwitter Filesโ€ is just Muskโ€™s psyop to distract people from what really happened on Twitter before he owned it, and to give himself an excuse to turn Twitter into 8chan.

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a year ago ยท 33 likes ยท 3 comments ยท Jim Stewartson

Matt Taibbi was in charge of โ€œTwitter Files #15โ€ for Elon Musk which was all about cherry-picking emails from Twitter executives to allege they were overzealous in their concerns about Russian interference and blames a data analysis tool called โ€œHamilton 68โ€ for a โ€œnew McCarthyism.โ€

So I did a counter-thread.

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๐Ÿงต THREAD: DEBUNKING MATT TAIBBIโ€™S KREMLIN BULLSHIT MOVE OVER 4CHAN, MATT TAIBBI DID A JOURNALISM AND TOTALLY OWNZ THE LIBZ WITH HIS HILARIOUS VID!!!!111
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1.THREAD: Twitter Files #15 MOVE OVER, JAYSON BLAIR: TWITTER FILES EXPOSE NEXT GREAT MEDIA FRAUD https://t.co/bLRpDpuWql
7:35 PM โˆ™ Jan 27, 2023
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Matt Taibbi objected with a classic straw man where he intentionally conflates โ€œRussian influenceโ€ and โ€œRussian propagandaโ€ with literal Russian citizens.

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โ€œOf course they werenโ€™t โ€˜Russian?โ€™โ€ The point of the site was to provide reporters with a tool to identify โ€œRussianโ€ influence activities. If you think I or any other American who promotes ideas you donโ€™t like should be on such a list, youโ€™re admitting the scam.
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โ€œIn laymanโ€™s termsโ€ means in Kremlin apologist terms. Of course they werenโ€™t โ€œRussian,โ€ Matt. Neither are you and all you do is Kremlin propaganda. Also โ€œordinaryโ€ is just a straight up lie and you know it. https://t.co/50IskLZ7WE
2:34 AM โˆ™ Jan 28, 2023
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The vast majority of Russian influence in America comes from compromised Americans, as Matt Taibbi knows because heโ€™s one of them.

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Stop deflecting, Matt. The way โ€œRussianโ€ influence happens is through Americans being compromised, not by Igor typing away in St. Petersburg. You know this because you are one of those compromised Americans.
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โ€œOf course they werenโ€™t โ€˜Russian?โ€™โ€ The point of the site was to provide reporters with a tool to identify โ€œRussianโ€ influence activities. If you think I or any other American who promotes ideas you donโ€™t like should be on such a list, youโ€™re admitting the scam. https://t.co/zdQOzQco6P
2:59 AM โˆ™ Jan 28, 2023
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Itโ€™s fascinating that Kremlin apologist Matt Taibbiโ€™s whole thread is based on emails collected from the guy who oversaw my illegitimate ban from Twitter, Yoel Roth. Taibbi is trying to spin Rothโ€™s comments to โ€œproveโ€ liberal bias, when, as I know from direct experience, the truth is quite the opposite.

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Yoel Roth was being overtly influenced by a bunch of leftist propagandists who accused anyone of pointing out Russian influence as โ€œBlueAnon.โ€ Yoel Roth also did nothing about 1/6.
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35.Again, even Roth, like most Twitter execs an ardent Democratic partisan, saw that the Hamilton scheme would lead people โ€œto assert that any right-leaning content is propagated by Russian bots.โ€ https://t.co/XqepteKMOg
8:50 PM โˆ™ Jan 27, 2023
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But the tankie attack didnโ€™t stop with Matt Taibbi. Horrific tankie propagandist Jimmy Dore got mad when I tagged him while tweeting about Nancy Pelosiโ€™s would-be hammer assassin David DePape and took the opportunity to spread more lies.

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Itโ€™s true, I brainwashed DePape into practicing gay hammer sex. Then I engineered a few mass shooting in California over the weekend. They got me.
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Itโ€™s important context that David DePape was not just radicalized by neo-fascists, which he was, but also by people like @joerogan, @TulsiGabbard and @jimmy_dore who gave his previously leftist brain a pathway to Nazism and murder. https://t.co/3y8qrlW7GE
2:10 AM โˆ™ Jan 26, 2023
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Jimmy was intentionally sending his cultish followers to try to intimidate or silence me. I got several hundred replies from his fans. These are mild ones.

You may be surprised to learn that I did not, in fact, back down from propagandist Jimmy Dore. When the video came out disproving Jimmyโ€™s lies about โ€œgay hammer sexโ€ I took the chance to ask him to make a correction. So far no luck.

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Hey @jimmy_dore now that the video of attempted hammer assassin David DePape attacking Paul Pelosi is out โ€” disproving all your conspiracy theories โ€” are you going to apologize to your tankie cult for lying to them for months?
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Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore
Itโ€™s true, I brainwashed DePape into practicing gay hammer sex. Then I engineered a few mass shooting in California over the weekend. They got me. https://t.co/jeCHXIwAtx
5:33 PM โˆ™ Jan 27, 2023
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For the record, I repeat: If you do not need to use Twitter, you should abandon it. There are still good people on Twitter and Iโ€™m grateful for my friends and followers there, but it is being turned into a neo-Nazi radicalization engine in front of us.

Please follow me on Mastodon.

#EvacuateTwitter

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Scarecrow
Feb 4

Jimmy Dore somehow brain wormed my brother. Hope he's not among those now attacking you over calling out that red-brown turd. I mean, if Dore's not being paid by the Kremlin, he should be. How to explain that since my bro started following Dore he thinks Hillary is Satan incarnate and Putin does bad stuff mainly because ...well...Hillary and the Dems pushed him into it...or something like that. I don't get the appeal of Dore. I found him obnoxious from the first time I ever saw him.

I did think it was kind of cool when he threw a drink at Alex Jones when Jones and Stone crashed the YT set at RNC '16 (I think it was). Now I wonder if that was all just staged, political theater.

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Beth Caruso
Jan 31

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mcgonigal-russian-oligarch-trump-2016-election-20230129.html?outputType=amp

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