The algorithm matching an article about police using facial recognition software with ads for face-obscuring bandanas: That’s Pretty Cyberpunk
The algorithm matching an article about police using facial recognition software with ads for face-obscuring bandanas that declare your support for the police: That’s Pretty 2017
Well this is interesting. So a big stretch of anarchist and left-radical energy in America is along I-5 in the Pacific Northwest, SF/Oakland up through Eugene, Portland, Olympia, Seattle. Part of that’s influence of the ILWU, possibly the most radical union in America with a real hold on the docks. Part of it’s as one of the whiter quarters of America, civil rights and identity idioms less displaced labor radicalism on the left.
Big flare-up with the late ‘90s antiglobalization/altermondialist movements, above all the ‘99 WTO Battle in Seattle, that was probably first national exposure for black bloc. Sure it was good for local morale.
So there’ve been big May Day marches in Seattle, occasionally some of the more enthusiastic do some skirmishing with cops in a spirit I’m guessing not far off from Korea vets towing artillery pieces down Main Street and reservists on Humvees come Veterans Day - “Look! It’s that thing we do!”
But now:
Traditionally every year May 1st is a day that Communist and Antifa run wild through downtown Seattle trying to intimidate police and intimidate freedom loving Americans. This year they will find people who have a different point of view. There will be a group of us who will be showing our support for the Police, Trump, Freedom, and AMERICA. Brave souls are welcome to join us. Bring your blue line, American, and Trump flags. This is a peaceful march. This is not a call to violence, but we will have people ready to protect anyone that wants to march with us for your free speech.
There will be two groups of people.
#1 Those who just want to show their support and march
#2 Those who will protect the group from any harassment from Antifa
Remember that fear is the main tactic that Antifa uses to keep people at home and out of the streets.
The page is being broadcast as a sponsored message on Facebook at least as far away as Portland.
(cute resonance: “Rock Against Communism” was a ‘70s-born UK movement/musical subculture that was basically a front for the National Front to recruit youth to white nationalism. It was a response to the earlier and more prominent “Rock Against Racism”, a Socialist Workers Party entryist project to recruit youth to communism)
In the contest of “who will be the 80s TNR/90s-00s Slate of the Trump era?” – i.e. the “with it enough to be liberal but white men enough to not be ridiculous” brand – I didn’t expect New York Magazine, but maybe I should’ve.
They were already running Chait about the illiberal campus left, now they’ve got Jesse Singal (pinned tweet: “Hey so I’m writing a book for Farrar, Straus & Giroux about social psychology, social justice, and the replication crisis. Fun!”) pushing back on trans ideologies, and I mean bringing back Andrew Sullivan on “yeah, but non-blacks can pull civilization off soooo…” is a little on the nose
It’s an open niche! They should try to poach Kevin Drum from Mother Jones next, doubt that guy respects the Clara Jeffery line much
“people who travel for work and are good at fucking people off tinder” is def. an interesting new yuppie tribe I’m seeing develop, distinct from “Instagram people who travel to fuck for work” which seems more a flash in the pan
More political streetfighting in Berkeley today, I’m hearing the rightists got reinforcements from all over the country, broke antifa lines, and routed them. Based Stickman has an army.
“Black brothers often travel in droves; they are out at night out on the streets, nightclubs, and remote areas. They engage in drug trafficking, harassment of women, and fighting, which seriously disturbs law and order in Guangzhou… Africans have a high rate of AIDS and the Ebola virus that can be transmitted via body fluids… If their population [keeps growing], China will change from a nation-state to an immigration country, from a yellow country to a black-and-yellow country.”
On social media, the Chinese response has been overwhelmingly supportive, with many commenters echoing Pan’s fears.
Last night, at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance leadership dinner, [FBI director James] Comey let slip that he has both a secret Twitter and an Instagram account in the course of relating a quick anecdote about one of his daughters…
Who am I to say no to a challenge?…
Among the various Comeys [suggested to someone who adds James Comey’s son on Instagram], only two of the suggested accounts lacked both real names and profile photos. And only one of these had anywhere near the “nine followers” that James Comey claimed to have. That account was reinholdniebuhr…
I still wasn’t sure that this was, in fact, James Comey. But a quick Google search turned up this article on Comey’s time at the College of William and Mary, and my doubts were assuaged:
By senior year, Comey was a double major in religion and chemistry, writing a senior thesis on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and televangelist Jerry Falwell and on his way to the University of Chicago Law School
With Instagram solved, it was time to move back to Twitter…
But fortunately for us, there are only seven accounts on Twitter currently using some variation of “Reinhold Niebuhr” as a user name.
And only one that seemed to be operating in stealth: @projectexile7.
But how to be sure? There is only one person currently following the account: Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare. Wittes is no Twitter neophyte. He is an active user with more than 25,000 followers, and he only follows 1,178 accounts—meaning he is not a subscriber to the “followback” philosophy. If he is following a random egg—and is the only account following it—there is probably a reason.
That reason could be the fact that, as Wittes wrote here, he is a personal friend of James Comey…
ProjectExile7 follows 27 other accounts, the majority of which are either reporters, news outlets, or official government and law enforcement accounts. The New York Times’ Adam Goldman and David Sanger and the Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima and David Ignatius, all of whom have been aggressively covering the FBI investigation into Trump’s contacts with Russian agents, made the list, as did Wittes and former Bush Administration colleague Jack Goldsmith. Donald Trump is on there, too, but @projectexile7 seems to have begun following him relatively recently (its first follow was @nytimes).
There are two outliers: William & Mary News (where Comey attended undergrad) and our colleagues at The Onion (everyone deserves to have fun)…
And of the 39 total tweets the account has liked thus far, eight refer directly to the FBI or James Comey himself… One deals with an active FBI investigation…
And four refer to the Trump administration in general.
Of course, none of this is definitive proof @projectexile7 is FBI Director James Comey, but it would take a nearly impossible confluence of coincidences for it to be anyone else. Take what you will from the fact that the director of the FBI appears to have liked a tweet from the New York Times about Mike Flynn and Jared Kushner meeting a Russian envoy in December.
We’ve reached out to the FBI for comment, and will update if and when we hear back…
Nothing quite demonstrates the generation divide like how both me and my dad are/were MMORPG players, both of us play lizardfolk monks, but in his case in Everquest the Iksar were legit humanoid lizards whereas mine is an Au Ra kawaii uguu anime girl with a few patches of scales and horns
To add to this, back in his day you had to join a guild to do content and his was a bunch of well-paid engineers and lawyers, who he knew and worked with IRL, whereas I just queue up the roulette and do stuff with randoms and never talk to anybody
Got the old login credentials so I could make the comparison
It was either in a P4k or Noisey interview when he was wildly rambling about the suffering neoliberalism afflicted the world with, as well as being the only musician to support Sam after he was thrown off of Adult Swim leads me to believe he is pilled. Also his lyrics are cryptic forays into political philosophy and pop-music, showing his knowledge of ideology, culture and power structures
So a rivalry of /pol/ vs. Shia LeBouef is gonna be hilarious from the concept alone.
But the fact that /pol/ can go from analysis to infiltration operations to counting coup anywhere in the Anglosphere within 48 hours… and remember thosetimes they were comparing subtle background details with satellite maps to target airstrikes in Syria? Plus their workaday schtick IS “conducting propaganda and provocation campaigns to increase unrest, influence elections, and congeal scattered resentments into an insurrectionary force”.
I mean, insert banepost here, but we should acknowledge they’re organically developing as a 3-letter intelligence agency.
