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I think this co-optational pivot will be when other cities model their own "Wall of X" blocs and is inevitable, but we'll see. Hoping Portland's militancy can prevail.
Of course, significant media attention tends to make opportunistic shit float to the top. Critical support... https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1286023812031684610
Of course, significant media attention tends to make opportunistic shit float to the top. Critical support... https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1286023812031684610
That's clearly Potash's angle, anyway. Flatten and defang to "anti-corruption/anti-Trump" rhetoric...
Speak of the devil https://twitter.com/gatzby_/status/1286340547012067334?s=20
The opposite of detournement is recuperation.
Potash has been responsive to criticism about how he built his platform embedding videos without credit. He still does it, of course, but now makes a big show about crediting select sources. The fact that he is adaptive only makes me more wary; a more effective evil.
Potash is a homegrown, gringo Thomas V. Linge; a "pro-democracy" protest flattening tourist who regularly aligns himself with US objectives. https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1167893516715872259?s=20
Probably related | https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1286182572523794432?s=20
Imagine writing effusive praise about a formation coming emerging without provenance and based solely on liberal identity - entirely devoid of ideology - and not finding fit to mention such a formation's obvious susceptibility to co-optation. https://twitter.com/BigMeanInternet/status/1285365862329913344?s=20
I wouldn't assume a preformed, organized group that shows up - without ideology - in a particularly timely fashion to help direct attention to " #TrumpGestapo" (instead of police violence ongoing for a month+) is necessarily "autonomous" like this blue check.
Critical support...
Critical support...
Nobody remembers the "Veterans Stand" grift, I guess?
"Within one year, Wood helped create Veterans Stand and raise more than $1.4 million in online donations. But that money remains largely unaccounted for — and the organization has since collapsed." https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.6/tribal-affairs-cashing-in-on-standing-rock
Related, Like I said | https://twitter.com/VetsWall/status/1286586858932060160?s=20
It's one thing to mobilize to support ongoing protest, but quite another to assume tactical leadership 55+ days in and only because you finally recognize how protest relates to your nemesis, Donald Trump. https://twitter.com/TheWayWithAnoa/status/1287203096469352448?s=19
You don't have to crown a tactic, no matter how much liberals and their social media insist you do so. Welcome to the struggle, follow the people who have been doing it. https://twitter.com/IronProle/status/1287483249992667136?s=19
Not saying anything...
It's hard to believe people are so bad at spotting these "civil society" co-optations in the USA, but many of you fall for this shit every time, from Nicaragua to Bolivia to Parkland to Occupy and on and on. https://twitter.com/RiotDoge/status/1290094847752318976?s=19
without trump, wall of moms becomes the cops. https://twitter.com/GothBotAlice/status/1359186371190087680?s=20
