So here’s what I find nuts about this post:
You are upset about the reaction you got after calling for a collaborative mindset from the left towards the right, but completely fail to see all the ways in which the right (alt and not so alt) flatly refused to do business with the left.
Multiple examples can easily be found of GOP / right obstructionism politics. Your call for collaboration feels disingenuous, uninformed and lazy as fuck. You aren’t credible when you blatantly ignore, justify and dismiss all the bullshit Obama dealt with as our President.
He managed to collaborate and get shit done despite the right’s undermining of every effort he attempted. You not crediting him as collaborative anyway when credit is clearly due makes you seem shady and ignorant to boot.
Maybe you don’t understand the massive amounts of ‘I’m taking my ball and going home bullshit’ the GOP has been spewing since Obama was elected in 2008 because you are not a US citizen?
The world is absolutely affected by US politics and has a stake in the game to be sure, but the fact that you choose willful ignorance and blatant lies to get your point across rubs me the wrong way.
Your complete lack of self awareness or research into the NON difference between Hillary Clinton’s ‘no fly zone’ idea and Trump’s ‘safe zone’ idea was the first post I read of yours which made me see you for what you really are — a lying propagandist for the GOP and their insane clown posse, led by President Dumple Thinskin.
It was all down hill from there as far as I am concerned. Including (but not limited to):
Your bazaar crap posts about us not having time to review our election to understand who infiltrated our systems.
Your claim that Trump’s insane idea to partner with Russia to deal with Cyber Security Issues is not woefully misguided at best and traitorous at worst.
Your wholly and completely uninformed perspective on our info systems’ security and forensic capabilities.
Your citations of the damn underbelly of YouTube as your ‘experts’ in proclaiming our national security apparatus doesn’t know it’s asshole from a Russian mail order bride.
Your insistence that our security assets’ lock step agreement after deep forensic investigation that the Russians absolutely interfered in our election by both hacking our systems and engaging in a misinformation campaign is some weird conspiracy made up by the left (BYC)
Your ‘dear McCain, please die already’ post was not cute and even though I am crazy angry with that man right now, I am not ok with a foreigner insulting a Vietnam POW.
Given all the above, no, I don’t believe anything you say about your motives and/or your connections. I don’t believe for a second that it is outside the realm of possibility that you could be collaborating with white nationalists. I also don’t believe for a second you’d know how to spot one if they took a frying pan to your forehead.
The bottom line is that words are weapons and what I’ve seen coming from your account over the past few months indicates that you don’t know a machete from a machine gun.
Who the fuck even are you? Why are you interjecting yourself in matters of which you have literal ZERO expertise? Who the fuck even asked you? At what point did your fat head swell enough to think you are smarter than the NSA, FBI, NIST and DHS combined (because some guy on YouTube)…
Caitlin Johnstone, my advice is that you shut the fuck up and read for a while. There is no shortage of intelligent analyst work on Medium. the grugq is a good account to start with. His writing is approachable for technical and non technical people alike and he often points out resources you could leverage in educating yourself before opening your mouth and showing us all how ignorant you truly are again.
Or don’t.
Just understand that your credibility is in the fucking toilet and if the only thing you can think to do about that is write a sob story, pity me post, it ain’t gonna get any better.
Grow up. Thanks.
(CC: Jaden Violet Meg)
