Gwen Snyder is uncivilDec 17, 2022

Elon is dismantling Twitter.

Thiel killed Gawker, and seems to be behind a lot of the funding of the tankie/dirtbag "left" elements that fractured & gaslit the popular left.

Whatever we do next, the left needs better eyes on these longtermist Silicon Valley dingbats.

Show threadGwen Snyder is uncivilDec 17, 2022

That's really my takeaway on all of this.

Journalists and antifascists got too good at what we were doing, especially accountability and deplatforming.

Thiel in particular figured this out and set out to destroy journalistic and then antifascist platforms and community.

Show threadGwen Snyder is uncivilDec 17, 2022
After six years of antifascist research and left organizing work where most "what the fuck, this came out of nowhere and screwed us" curveballs can be traced back to or at least linked to Thiel, I feel like I have clarity on who is doing this stuff and doing it effectively.
Show threadGwen Snyder is uncivilDec 17, 2022

Bannon and Thiel are the best manipulators of information culture I've ever seen.

Bannon's moment at the top may be over, but Thiel is just as dangerous, in other ways.

Elon's the face of these attacks on journalism right now, but it's pretty obvious that Thiel is the brains.

Show threadIt's Going DownDec 17, 2022
@gwensnyder Has there been anything written documenting Thiel's funding of the dirtbag left?
Show threadHegelian Princess
@igd_news @gwensnyder red scare and the whole dimes square scene but they're not really dirt bag left anymore
Dec 17, 2022 at 1:05amWeb