Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 16:13

RT @nikadubrovsky: Dear friends, please, join us tomorrow: Join Zoom Meeting https://t.co/y6z06LR5DT Topic: Visual Assembly/Health Care…

Fri 3 Jul 2020 16:11

RT @CrustiniB: Little thread bitching about my job and my crappy business union: So 1 month ago we went down to 50% work capacity because…

Fri 3 Jul 2020 12:57

“Reflection. On Ranavalona why do we like playful violent rulers?” https://t.co/DvfPlLSqKD

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 12:55

Are Kings a little bit like children? Find out the amazing answer in this passage from the book: “Kings are a Little Bit Like Children.” Or, okay, technically the title is ‘Aren’t Kings…” #a4all .@nikadubrovsky https://t.co/Lka6dUDkT0

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 12:51

@ForosLucius I think the propaganda damage done by legitimating #BBCNews is more dangerous. First of all, far more people think BBC is non-propaganda. Second, BBC has done way more destructive things – viz the “Corbyn is an Antisemite” campaign

Fri 3 Jul 2020 12:47

@inside_lemon @nomthepom yeah he’s defining “mainstream” as “reflecting the interest or attitudes of SOME elite”. That’s a very unusual definition of “mainstream.” Pretty much no one else uses the word that way. If he’s trying to change the meaning of the term, he’s unlikely to get far.

Fri 3 Jul 2020 12:45

RT @davidgraeber: @dominichills5 actually RT has simply reversed the cold war tactic the US used successfully vs the USSR: rather than prom…

Fri 3 Jul 2020 11:03

@dominichills5 actually RT has simply reversed the cold war tactic the US used successfully vs the USSR: rather than promulgate a single line (which the USSR tried, unsuccessfully), just find homegrown dissidents on the other side and throw money and airtime at them.

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:58

@Jonatha05469026 maybe they have some cultural left stuff but that’s just cover. It’s like the Guardian. i’m considered extreme left. They’re always asking me to talk about cultural issues, NOT political ones. Then they just censor or ignore me.

Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:57

@Jonatha05469026 you think BBC is overtly on the left? Wow. Not the News! During the election when an impartial body found both the Labour & Tory platform economically unfeasible, BBC News mentioned it for the Tories once, for Labour, 37 times.

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:55

@nomthepom well different elites have different interests, and also, elites have to have a news source that’s reliable for themselves – which is why reading the financial papers will often get you the best information

Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:54

@PafkoBosh good example! Yes the Russians tend to be more free-form and improvisational, which is bad if you’re a spy (they have notoriously incompetent spies) but much better if you’re in the news business.

Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:32

@stumpygutbucket yeah they can be good; but before the Saudi regime told Qatar they’d basically invade unless AJ changed its editorial direction, they were so much better

Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:30

this actually does correspond with my experience, no one at RT ever asks me what I’m going to say before I go on air, but BBC & similar “mainstream” media invariably have a pre-interview where they go over your positions very carefully

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:28

she says she prefers RT because while it’s obviously propaganda, they never tell people what to say. They just choose people likely to say things they agree with & let them loose. BBC, CNN, etc, are actually much more directly controlled.

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:26

@SirPaulHartley @BBCNews oh. how recently? I did agree to do a spot on Radio 4 because I figured it was different management than BBCNews. Hope I didn’t make a mistake.

Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:25

@ubi_stories @BBCNews I suspect in this case it’s a little of both. I also noticed how only “free market advocates” are allowed to scream, take extreme positions, & openly mock others on mainstream US news shows.

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:24

@ubi_stories @BBCNews it’s like me when I go back to America. I remember even a few years ago turning on CNN a couple times at the gym, and there’d be some libertarian screaming or someone being wildly abusive & I was always, “has something changed or was it always like this & I didn’t notice?”

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:21

@WorbsIntoWords @SamuraiElf no just didn’t learn to suppress your enthusiasm, which often does makes people type too fast

Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:18

@alueda @SamuraiElf logically this would have to refer to some part of “our” (including your) brain other than that which was writing that tweet, which did seem to know the difference

Fri 3 Jul 2020 10:15

my wife grew up in the Soviet Union and when we tried to watch .@BBCNews for a while, we had to give up because it reminded her too much of Soviet newscasts: the cheesy clothes, postures, obvious propaganda… https://t.co/CBj9kcAIWt

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Fri 3 Jul 2020 00:52

@paniq what? expressed the facts in a way that shows I care deeply about the matter? Yeah. Guilty as charged. Or do you somehow think this is all about yourself, whoever you are.

Fri 3 Jul 2020 00:49

@bygeorgist @ExtroSpecteur it’s very hard to say. I suppose they could threaten her family. I don’t know much about her.

Thu 2 Jul 2020 23:33

@Timlagor @Exarchopou1os @rkhamsi thank you – yes exactly. I mean, I guess I thought the process of my first saying to myself “my god that’s so totally offensive, who is this person anyway… oh. Well, okay, maybe not AS totally offensive as I thought…” was slightly funny.