Ah yes because we live in a post-consequences-for-assholes world apparently

Fun, thanks for sharing and good luck

I definitely didn’t intend to imply or accuse you of being astroturfey or anything else for that matter and I’m truly sorry it came off that way. It seems I should be much more careful in my wording. I did a bad job of paraphrasing something I heard about how the original Reddit accounts and lack of traditional organizers are a bit suspicious.

At the end of the day I think we’re all scared and trying to navigate a complex media ecosystem and it’s easy to make mistakes.

I genuinely have heard concerns from friends and was trying to check their veracity. It seems from what I’ve heard here that they are bogus and I’m grateful to the commenters who have pointed that out.

I added an edit to my original comment to try to make this clearer to anyone else who’s been fed the same misinformation as me and I’ll definitely share that with my community.

Ugh I hope not, if so it’s worked on at least a few people in my community and I apologize for helping it propagate with my comment here

I definitely will ask, that’s what I was trying to do with my original comment. It seems like it’s not a widely shared concern which I’m very glad to see.

I definitely don’t mean to discourage attendance or anything like that, I totally agree with you that as long as people are cautious about PII, etc. there shouldn’t be more risk here than at any other protest

I’m just echoing some suspicions I’ve heard from more knowledgeable friends and was asking, I don’t really know enough detail to have any opinion myself; sorry if it’s a silly question.

I’ve just heard that organizers coming out of it/ the Reddit accounts that originally elevated it seemed astroturfeyand there’s concern there, and I’ve seen some more paranoid ideas thrown around about it but idk

I’ve heard from some of my more active friends that none of the usual leaders or orgs they know of were a part of founding this and there’s some suspicion it was created by right wingers to collect data; can anyone speak to this?

Edit: It seems that this claim is likely being made (either maliciously or like in this case just stupidly :P) to suppress protest turnout.

Man fuck Reddit

You didn’t mention his girlfriend/ maybe future wife was on the plane he shot down, what a crazy story

And basing the character on their boss

“At press time, Butker’s wife admitted her girdle no longer fit because she was pregnant with Colin Kaepernick’s child“ sent me

I see perun I upvote perun, I’m a simple man

Russian military bases are visible on google maps and Ukrainian troops have been training in nato countries since close to the beginning of the war

Oh absolutely but they haven’t refined it quite far enough for their own nukes yet, never mind produced enough to sell to the nation with the most nukes on the planet

Russia has nukes, Iran doesn’t… (yet although trump may well have fucked that up)

I mean it’s getting under trumps skin because he isn’t interested in valid criticisms and only understands schoolyard level insults.

It’s working as a message on the general public even more so because Vance and Trump’s messaging has gotten further from the original populism and more focused on an in group or his qult or whatever.

I don’t think “weird” is working in the sense of having any marked impact on racism

I absolutely agree racism should be called out whenever and wherever possible, I’m just not sure calling it weird is the right way to do that.

Also most Americans may not be explicitly racist the way trump and right wingers are but the majority certainly have internal prejudices or biases. Many left leaning people I know have had to put work and intentionality into unlearning patterns of thought or biases

Let’s not overuse weird, a ton of what he does is super weird but this isn’t really; it’s just racist which is pretty in character for him and his base

You can’t take the sky from me

But America bad so clearly anyone opposed to America good… who cares how racist, authoritarian, or fascist they are