Quick … someone give me a valid binary choice. I've been getting so many of the invalid variety shoved down my throat that I am starting to forget what they look like.
Whataboutism … that's what woke Twitter has been flooding my timeline with in order to avoid the discomfort one feels when realizing someone you respect f$&ked up.
From six days ago, Matt Zeller fully explaining my Afghan frustration
No idea who Cloudflare is picking up … the Plausible Analytics number is likely the accurate number.
I could tell you 9 nine false things and 1 true thing in the same breath. That I lied 9 times makes the 1 true thing I said no less true. Who I am, what motivated me, my aim in telling you these 10 things … entirely irrelevant … that 1 thing remains true.
Wish I could force all my Twitter followers to read a thread, just once, so I could go ahead and filter out all the folks that are bound to disappoint. (In this case, obviously, it would be the Afghanistan triplet).
Folks that didn't f$&king anticipate something sure seem to think themselves entitled to claim there wasn't anyone else that happened to anticipate that which they could not.
FFS Oxford Dictionary of English, is there a non-ignoramus setting for your word of the day?
Alrighty … think I just got my Afghanistan art concept.
The official Matt Zeller segment I recorded this morning (complete with Andrea Mitchell really trying to figure out how to tow the line in the middle).
Way to go American journalists, John Oliver's Afghanistan coverage secures his position as head of class.
Here's Matt Zeller this morning.
(Y'all just set the Kool-Aid down, listen to our veterans like they might be correct, then use your processor to discern wherein lay the propagandic spin … it's the swallowing w/o thinking that bothers me).
And … I mean … why listen to the man with the Harvard education, that did four tours in Iraq, when you can pass the buck tow the tribal line … am I right? #Aghanistan
A little more Crow … this time in print #Afghanistan
Tell me woke Twitter … do we still like Rep. Jason Crow? #Afghanistan
Uploading another Matt Zeller segment to YouTube (which takes f$&king forever) … he is spot on … speaking truth to power … and to the gaslit tribal demagoguery corrupting my Twitter timeline.
I remain unconvinced that civil disobedience can build up the requisite pressure necessary to move the needle within a bifurcated information ecosystem that has segregated the two party bases into dual reality bubbles. Yet another thing I hope that I'm wrong about.
I still can't square all the "nobody could've seen it coming" spin against the fact that with the first report of Afghan soldiers abandoning their posts (late April/May?) this situation is all I saw coming … which is why I wanted our allies evacuated … like right f$&king then.
Well … at least I know I am not feeding Facebook's algorithm enough data to be manipulated.
Am I the only one taking the word of Afghan veterans over administration PR? 'Cause that is what it has felt like.
Kind of annoying that only new posts are having their Twitter card images fetched.
For anyone confused by whether propaganda is inherently good or bad, it is both. It is a neutral science no different ethically speaking than genetic engineering. Is your aim to eugenically cleanse a population or to protect a population amidst a global pandemic?
Demonstrably false
The filter we lost when social media supplanted print media within the information ecosystem.
The plan presented to the administration in February lives here