Panfilo posted:

The recent Eliza Bleu "scandal" is an interesting look at right wing group think. Many are focusing on how she herself was a charlatan and how people are finally realizing that. But more interestingly is the reactions themselves.

Eliza Bleu came into right wing discourse largely last year when Elon Musk bought Twitter. For a few years she had poised herself as an anti human trafficking/child abuse advocate. In order to suck up to Musk, she helped reinforce the claim that pre Musk, Twitter had a big problem with CSEC. But post takeover, all that magically went away. This was politically useful for Musk and a lot of conservatives on Twitter. For those that thought they were unfairly "censored", this was ammunition that Twitter and the government were perpetuating the problem of child porn on Twitter, and worked hard to merge both concepts.

Eliza Bleu was, of course, a fraud. But ironically being a fraud wasn't what brought her down! It was how she reacted to it. Years ago she had been in a World star music video, during the time she had claimed to have been trafficked. Up to this point she could have mimicked Amouranth's claims that while she was doing these things it was under duress and under the orders of an abusive controlling partner/pimp/trafficker/etc. People would still be sympathetic because they'd be focusing on what she's saying and doing now, not what she did.

But she made a critical mistake, which is to react angrily at people looking up the video and report them to YouTube (for copyright violation? Revenge porn rules? This is where it gets weird). A few right wing internet D listers got suspended/banned including the Quartering because they linked the music video.

And getting them banned is what did her in. Because now she's part of cancel culture. Now she's part of the growing skepticism reactionaries are having that New Twitter isn't all that great, what with the shadowbannings and anemic follower counts and whatnot. And this is where they turned on her, and also turned on anyone who tried to defend her. Anyone that backed her up was also part of the problem and could be blamed on letting it get to this point all along. Tim Pool had to issue a weird apology on Twitter for siding with Eliza and inviting her on his podcast, and now the inner misogyny of the right is open full blast as they've concluded that she's not an advocate, she's not helping Twitter be better and more free-to them she's nothing but a clout chasing whore.

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Weka posted:

nice username 'studs n chuds'.

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i think it’s myopic and ineffectual to lump both american parties together

the bush years woulda been vastly different if the supreme court ruled different in bush v. gore, added bonus of shaping policy that accepted anthropocentric climate change 23 years ago

friends of mine have been shot at in their homes by these people

Panfilo posted:

Pretty good breakdown of those statue pfp accounts on Twitter
https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1780170180045254908?t=jqcDcuLlvtzWoLqLFS-DuA&s=19
Culture critic has a million followers and regularly laments the current state of art and architecture. Stuff like this seems to give reactionaries a cover for their terrible views, which I assume is intentional. Make reactionary right wing content coded to benign things, point and laugh when people call the "OK" hand sign 'fascist'.