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Elon Musk drops new details on Twitter's suppression of Hunter Biden laptop
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/polic...den-laptop

INTRO: Twitter chief Elon Musk made good on his pledge to drop new information about the company's behind-the-scenes machinations about the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020. Musk retweeted a thread from journalist Matt Taibbi, who slowly rolled out information from the so-called Twitter files.

The thread revealed that Twitter mulled requests from political groups to suppress material.

The outspoken CEO had teased Friday that he would divulge the new information at 5 p.m. Eastern time but subsequently announced there would be a significant delay because the company was "double-checking some facts." (MORE -- details)


The alt-right are contrarian phonies
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-alt...n-phonies/

EXCERPTS: . . . Many have found themselves fascinated and revolted over Ye’s [Kanye West] strange new career as a high-profile antisemite. [...] not surprised to see white nationalist Nick Fuentes jumping onboard the Ye train...

[...] This all makes sense when you understand how these people think. So much focus has rightly been put on the shared antisemitic views of Ye and Fuentes that it’s obscured something that is just as key to their extremist thinking: plain old contrarianism.

Ye and Fuentes this week joined podcaster Tim Pool where the rapper jumped in to explain his negative views on Jews and their supposed societal power. When Pool mildly pushed back, Ye stormed off and Fuentes followed him.

So did their friend and fellow interviewee Milo Yiannopoulos...

Ye told Pool, “Have you ever heard the term ‘the black vote’? So it’s okay to put us in one net but it’s not okay for me to put them in one net?”

“Them” being Jewish people.

That’s when Yiannopoulos chimed in, “That’s the basis of the hypocrisy that people have been thinking about and been knowing about and realizing for decades. We were all wondering how this dam would break.”

Yiannopoulos continued, “Everyone in the country was wondering what was the root of this hypocrisy.”

“Why can people talk about why white people are a certain way?” he added. “Why can’t they talk about that group a certain way?”

Yiannopoulos then appeared to say that thanks to Ye, folks can now openly discuss Jews in negative and conspiratorial terms.

He said, “The wretched, wicked and oppressive prevailing orthodoxy of cancel culture, well it turned out that the one thing that was going to break the dam is the biggest star in the world and it took the biggest star in the world to do it.”

“And now the dam is broken,” he insisted.

[...] When the alt-right movement emerged during the 2016 presidential election, Yiannopoulos wrote a lengthy description and defense of the alt-right ... Alt-righters aren’t really racist, Yiannopoulos insisted at the time. They were inherently contrarian. They trolled. They were intentionally outlandish. He even compared them to heavy metal-loving teenagers in the 1980s pretending to be devil worshippers because it was edgy and dangerous.

[...] Yiannopoulos explained six years ago. “The alt-right is a movement born out of the youthful, subversive, underground edges of the internet… For years, members of these forums – political and non-political – have delighted in attention-grabbing, juvenile pranks.”

Fuentes is clearly a racist and antisemite and revels in it. But the reveling is also key. It’s what they do...

[...] In any context, the basic racism and antisemitism Ye and his new friends spew is bad. But when observers wonder why a white nationalist like Fuentes is in league with a famous black man, well, what could be more contrarian than that? His name and brand are being promoted more than ever...

[...] If you’re Yiannopoulos, and your last attention-hungry stunt involved being a gay man who declared that he had become “ex-gay,” “sodomy-free” and was now promoting gay conversation therapy, why wouldn’t someone question the legitimacy of your newfound devotion to Jew hate? (MORE - missing details)