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pecosbob's JournalAlt-Right Trolls Are Trying to Sabotage Black Lives Matter Chatrooms
https://www.motherjones.com/anti-racism-police-protest/2020/06/black-lives-matter-4chan-telegram/On Sunday night, users of 4chan made several highly trafficked posts with links to dozens of Black Lives Matter channels on Telegram, a privacy-oriented, encrypted messaging app that has been used for organizing protests across the country. Users on 4chan encouraged others to post disinformation in the groups, find incriminating information that they can pass to law enforcement, and trawl the channels for as much personal, identifying, and organizational information as they can about people in the groups.
Some have already posted the phone numbers of volunteers organizing food and water for protesters, and phone numbers for jail support for arrested protesters. The 4chan posts didnt include instructions for what to do with the numbers, but based on 4channers normal behavior, its possible that the implication is to harass the person on the other end of the line. In some cases, users in the threads are also doxxing what they believe to be Antifa safehouses by posting addresses of these homes.
read more at https://www.motherjones.com/anti-racism-police-protest/2020/06/black-lives-matter-4chan-telegram/
A modest proposal (sophomoric humor alert)
Thirty percent of Americans believe day is night and night is day.
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Buy Fox 'News' and seed the conspiracy theory at OAN and Drudge that Obama-era deep-state discovered that a meteor is hurtling toward earth (substitute Enormous Mutant Space Goat here if you wish) and is hiding the planet's imminent destruction from all us good 'muricans. Obama and Bill Gates and Hillary and George Soros and the Chinese and NATO and MoveOn.org and the EU and the WHO are secretly building a spaceship to fly the Illuminati-la-de-dah to a new home on Proxima Dumbassii.
The hook: Elon Musk is rumoured to be secretly building a space-port on Matagorda Island Texas to construct...wait for it...'Ark B'...a first-class only, no libtards allowed, Trump's Space Force's most bestest rocket-ship in the world to Make the Universe Great Again. Only the most rigidly-screened patriotic red-blooded Americans will be accepted. All the best conservatives minds will have design input during the process based on their loyalty to Orange Mousseolini. The ship unfortunately will crash into the Atlantic off the Jersey coast shortly after takeoff.
Unemployment goes down, wages go up, the one percent all perish...a win-win.
Jonathan Swift's sense of humor updated to reconcile that of Douglas Adams.
The economic development crowd is going about this all wrong
https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2020/05/13/the-economic-development-crowd-is-going-about-this-all-wrong/For all the hand-wringing over Nevadas failure to diversify its economy because uh-oh now look where we are, well, here we are. Nevadas economy hasnt diversified in a statistically meaningful way, it isnt going to anytime soon, and we shouldnt pretend otherwise.
Despite the earnest efforts of the states growing economic development industrial complex over the last few years, battery factories and data centers and all the other ventures Nevada has attracted by doling out publicly subsidized handouts even the holy sacred football field amen have created a workforce that is still dwarfed by the number of people directly and indirectly employed in what is or was the states primary industry.
And now, in Nevadas greatest economic crisis ever, the economic development crowd is saying what we need is more financial enticements to lure new firms to come to Nevada.As one economic development official explained to business allies last week, The strategy is to push and push hard for new job creation.
With incentives.
In other words, more of the same.
Those barriers to prosperity and well-being also block performance in one area that every economic development organization in Nevada and the nation unanimously agrees is a tip top priority, education.
Amazon, Tesla, Google, Apple, Switch and yes, even the football team dont need the goodies Nevada has given them. But the state does.
The chambers of commerce, higher education institutions, and politicians have all been staunch allies of the economic development set. And they all know prosperity isnt shared in Nevada. They shouldnt be whining for tax breaks and pining for deals, begging for grants, and smiling at ribbon-cuttings.
They should be pushing economic development policy that helps people who work in the jobs Nevada has (or had, but will someday have again), not cheering on economic development agencies as they muse about how wonderful it will be when every Nevada child learns to code or whatever.
"Old Hippie" Got Accused of Astroturfing the Right-Wing Campaign to Reopen the Economy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/reopen-liberate-urls/I realized all these fringe guys are gonna get a hold of these websites, So I went out and bought em up that night, he told me. The financial burden of thwarting fringe-right groups? It cost me about four grand, Murphy said. I dont have the money quite frankly. I was just trying to do something good. Im in massive credit debt to do this.
Murphy said that he recognized that his plan isnt foolproof. While similar domains have already been obtained and still remain up for purchase, he thinks keeping fringe-right wingers from the ones he purchased has made a difference. He said he believes such short concise domain names are important in search rankings. Names are really powerful. Thats why people pay millions for certain domains, he said.
After buying the URLs, things were initially quiet. But on Saturday night a Reddit post detailing information about the domain registrations went viral. While the message didnt directly identify Murphy, it gave instructions on how to find his name alongside speculation that he must be running an anti-lockdown astroturf campaigneven though Murphys intentions were the exact opposite. On Twitter, people doxxed him, posting his address and home number.
Check your targets, folks...
How Fox News Is Supercharging the Coronavirus Protests
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/how-fox-news-is-supercharging-the-coronavirus-protests/In recent days, thousands of people have protested against coronavirus lockdowns in states across the country. The demonstratorsoften wearing MAGA gear and directing their ire at Democratic governorsstill represent a small minority; polls show that most Americans are actually worried the shutdowns will be ended too soon. But according to Matt Gertz, that could change quickly. Gertz, a senior fellow at the liberal group Media Matters for America, points out that Fox News has thrown its full weight behind the protests and that Donald Trump has followed the right-wing networks lead. Once you have Fox News and President Trump championing these protests for a while, Gertz predicts, youll see polarization kick in, I think, and Republicans begin to support them in larger numbers.
Between April 13 and April 19, Fox devoted a whopping 4 hours and 23 minutesacross 69 separate segmentsto covering the protests, a Media Matters report found. All this is eerily reminiscent of 2009, when Fox helped turn the nascent tea party movement into a powerful anti-Obama political force by relentlessly promoting its rallies. (Disclosure: I worked with Gertz at Media Matters back then.) On Monday, I spoke with Gertz about Foxs coverage of the anti-social distancing demonstrations, its impact on Trump, and the striking similarities to what happened a decade ago. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.
I have run out of expletives...
A life raft lost at sea - a short rant
If stranded in a life raft at sea with a companion that insists on bailing water into the life raft instead of out of the life raft the boat's passengers would simply throw the obstructionist into the sea and be done with it.
What is to be done with the saboteurs? The Interior Dept. wants to sell off the Grand Canyon to mining companies, Repubs in Florida designed their unemployment system to fail, DeVos dismantles the Education Department as we watch in real time, Erik Prince doing his best to start a new modern-day Holy War or Crusade in the Middle East and Asia, Repub state and federal officials continue to deliberately make it more difficult to vote...profiteers, disaster capitalists, idiots and fools all.
Today I heard some red-state governor's wife make another stupid claim about 5G and the virus being a hoax...
What can be done in the long term to exclude these modern-day monkey-wrenchers and fools from positions of authority?
Relevant then and now
Them sailing on their ego trip
Blast off in their spaceship
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me
Now they sitting on a time bomb
Now I know the time has come
What goes on up is coming on down
Goes around and comes around
Rant...When the workers have to stay home the world crashes
the tiny middle class shrinks a bit more and the ultra-wealthy demand handouts from the taxpayer. Oh, and that we return to work and get back to making money for them as quickly as possible.
At times I wonder why we support a system that doesn't support us?
Dispensaries closing tonight in Nevada for the duration per Governor's order
Get it while you can.
No related story other than the Governor's formalizing the temporary closure of non-essential businesses. I personally called the dispensaries to verify.
Keep your head down...things are getting weird.
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