Post AUcFa2kXs6rhHzgCDA by biobrain@newsie.social
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 (DIR) Post #AUcCWaQYPxbeiXzNIW by mmasnick@mastodon.social
       2023-04-13T16:40:01Z
       
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       If you predicted this, you win one internet point.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcCWayaNQpQQ5uYLI by wjmaggos@liberal.city
       2023-04-13T16:45:03Z
       
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       @mmasnickI bet you could get a hold of him...
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcFa2kXs6rhHzgCDA by biobrain@newsie.social
       2023-04-13T16:46:42Z
       
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       @mmasnick Yes, because if you're really worried about the government and political candidates having too much power over social media it just makes sense to go to a social media site controlled by a former president and current political candidate who is a strong believer in censorship.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcFa5xPwhwbEmj1Bw by noiseician@mastodon.world
       2023-04-13T16:47:01Z
       
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       @mmasnick he's *right* where he belongs...
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcFaQRDnbfUl0p6QK by ML2@akkoma.sandhill.social
       2023-04-13T17:17:47.423773Z
       
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       @mmasnick So Matt Taibbi went from calling Goldman Sachs a "vampire squid" to posting on Trump's social network...which underscores a general lack of moral principles on his part.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcHf5WLCGYbEtZKO8 by Jillyvstheworld@geekdom.social
       2023-04-13T16:57:56Z
       
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       @mmasnick just when we thought this saga couldn’t get any dumber
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcHf67uwYcB7R9KxU by mmasnick@mastodon.social
       2023-04-13T17:15:28Z
       
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       @Jillyvstheworld taps the sign...
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcHf6cP7D08dzPgTg by Jillyvstheworld@geekdom.social
       2023-04-13T17:22:14Z
       
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       @mmasnick next volume of “the Twitter files” will be written by Nick Fuentes and Catturd
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcHf7919x5aH8fjJQ by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
       2023-04-13T17:42:43.908012Z
       
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       @Jillyvstheworld @mmasnick So typical for an African to cause so much chaos and distress
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcK3EUThLdJuwL2BM by ech@qoto.org
       2023-04-13T18:01:04Z
       
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       @ML2 Sort of similar in that they're both about tearing down institutions that he sees as defective. He talks a lot about authoritarianism, right – he's against over-powered govt'-propped financial institutions (as is Elizabeth Warren... and Tucker Carlson...) and also against the authoritarianism of the identity-left (i.e. what you see on mainline mastodon instances, so obviously he isn't popular here).See also Justine Tunney. She's a populist, so simultaneously a hero of OWS and also a neo-reactionary Trump ~supporter.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcK8rDt7SjTUYGDHE by voron@mstdn.party
       2023-04-13T18:07:38Z
       
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       @mmasnick So I’d like all the folks who called Taibbi a leftist or a progressive to now slap themselves
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcLDa6UIPwhnbcDbM by ML2@akkoma.sandhill.social
       2023-04-13T18:22:24.650875Z
       
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       @echI would be way more charitable to Taibbi (I myself have deep reservations about aspects of idpol, particularly in the form it takes among some social media users) if it weren't for the fact that, in his criticism of it, he's gone against his previously anti-corporate stance.To be very honest I have never heard of Justine Tunney. I was still in high school during OWS, and while I remember Taibbi I don't remember Tunney.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcLEhLQrLtmXw8cyW by Nadinabbott@mstdn.social
       2023-04-13T18:15:25Z
       
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       @mmasnick @monatemchin honest, shocked he did not go to gab, 4chan or telegram.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcMGTYFDJXqIgXgtk by scheidegger@mastodon.social
       2023-04-13T16:47:45Z
       
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       @mmasnick taibbi is a dumb sycophantic piece of shit, but this was still literally jawdropping.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcMkHXQRWwHjIN8Bk by alfredo_liberal@qoto.org
       2023-04-13T18:39:20Z
       
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       @mmasnick 😄😄 wait til truth social goes down where will he go
       
 (DIR) Post #AUcVRHF8DOhEtqpOFs by skroobler@universeodon.com
       2023-04-13T20:07:26Z
       
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       @ech @ML2 Everyone is for tearing down institutions they see as defective; it's a given person's analysis of which institutions they think those are, and how they arrived at that conclusion, that is of interest. Taibbi's analysis has gone off the rails, which happens a lot when someone gets comfortable.