The late David Golumbia saw weev (real name: Andrew Auernheimer) as a linchpin in Silicon Valley's turn toward fascism. He spends nearly a whole chapter on weev in "Cyberlibertarianism: The Right Wing Politics of Digital Technology."

@ben Instances with maintainers and primary user base operating in other languages are not necessarily attuned to English-speaking political dynamics. Even if they were peripherally aware, the current fascist surge in the United States or Europe is not a priority over local political or cultural […]

@ben While it is important individuals control and personalize their information flow, applying this approach at the instance level fragments the network, penalizes users who have not violated rules, incentivizes closed or invite-only servers, and marginalizes international instances that are […]

you're to ignore that these basely claims of a "biased liberal media" run concurrently with concrete, broad efforts by the right wing to turn the entirety of corporate media into a right wing propaganda safe space

Kushner holds no official position yet travels around the world negotiating at the highest levels of foreign policy and supposedly representing US interests.

He was rejected for security clearance in Trump’s first term until Trump interceded and ordered he be granted permanent top secret clearance.