Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

The left invented memes. And there are no funny Trumpist comedians. All the best comedians—in fact all the best artists of any stripe—are on the left. So it’s not that I fail to see the humor in your memes or the creativity in your doctored media. I just find it—and you—pathetic. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

What’s frustrating—and what I was responding to, here—is that those of us who read news must daily come across journos wasting time fact-checking idiocy. The memes and disinformation kibbles are sad; their makers are sad; those who believe them or are entertained by them are sad. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Truth be told, I think it’s a sign of the decay of our culture that we can’t help these lost losers do something productive and interesting and generatively artistic or political relevant with their energy, creativity, and pent-up sexual frustration. Instead, we get passé memes. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I’ve spent a lot of time on 4chan and 8chan and far-right fake “news” sites doing academic research. These are literally the saddest places on the internet—filled with the saddest and most hopeless people. There is nothing joyful about exposing these gaping spiritual black holes. — PolitiTweet.org

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Is some of it coming from overseas intelligence operatives? Sure. Intel reports from the federal government have confirmed this. But *much* comes from young white men who just feel they have nothing to look forward to, nothing interesting to say, and no real contribution to make. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

So I think all this manipulated Joe Biden media is not just bad for the Democratic Party, it is bad for America, bad for political discourse, and bad for the very depressed creators who are behind it—who live for the thrill of YouTube views and major-media fact-checker attention. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

They have a captive audience in middle-aged, middle-class, digitally-illiterate Trumpist fan-slaves, so they simp for the Orange God-Emperor because it gets them clicks and attention—if not the love they actually want and need. It’s a transient, wasted life, but it *feels* real. — PolitiTweet.org

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Having said that, some of these children are creative. They understand digital culture. If they showered and climbed up out of the basement and put their minds to creating things that matter—say, music, visual art, video games, actual activism—I bet they could make contributions. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Most of these incels don’t care about Trump. They just know that they’re bored, angry, sexually frustrated, average-to-below-average in intelligence, broke and ennui-filled and that the left has no use for them. So they seek love and attention where they can get it—from *morons*. — PolitiTweet.org

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Look, if you catch flack for daily posting juvenile memes about a man whose policies you aren’t smart enough to talk about like a grown-up, and can only say in response that the left—which invented memes—“can’t meme” or “take a joke,” don’t take your sexual frustration out on me. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

From the death threats I’m getting backchannel, I just realized that the triggered Christofascist snowflakes reading this thread think I *watched* the Biden “ice cream truck” vid. Why would I do that? The *point* of this thread is that I’m *over* moronic daily incel 4chan spooge. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@Ellico2020 And did I share or endorse that nonsense? No. I am a strong believer that when you find insurrectionists on video confirming exactly what they are, you do not add humorous music to it—you report it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GriftingProject *So* weird to lie about a story you’re linking to Go touch some grass — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

While it *could* be the case that the words were first inserted as part of an earlier draft, and while it *could* be that a member of the senator’s staff—aware of Scott’s lied-about presidential pretensions—authorized the language, it *absolutely* did not come from the publisher. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

“The description on the copyright page was our error and is not accurate. It was not done at the direction or approval of the Senator or his team.” Nope—sorry. That’s not how it works. Someone on Sen. Scott’s end inserted the words—*period*. No publisher would insert such words. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I’ve published 18 books. This wasn’t put in as an error—it was *forgetting to take it out* that was the error. And taking it out was clearly a political decision, as a) its inclusion means Scott thinks Trump will be indicted, b) Scott is running for POTUS. https://t.co/PAt3pYZ1QU — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Blistering 🧵: — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

So when you see manipulated media regarding Biden being called out by fact-checkers daily, take it as a sign that the far-right puppeteers have no idea how to criticize this man or his successes as POTUS in the reality we all inhabit—they must run off to a *fantasyland* to do so. — PolitiTweet.org

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Related observation: the reason manipulated media almost always comes from the right is because far-right trolls believe Republican voters are stupid. And the reason Republican voters repeatedly *fall* for manipulated media is that the overwhelming majority are—apparently—stupid. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

The simple fact is, if you’re using manipulated media to make any sort of “point,” it’s the loudest imaginable acknowledgment that you’ve no point to make that can be validly made. Manipulated media is a confession of political weakness and desperation shouted into a loudspeaker. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

How do I know Republicans have nothing on Biden? Because every day their pimple-faced, basement-dwelling trolls vomit up some fake media to try to establish a narrative of foolishness and incompetence that reality doesn’t bear out. If they had *anything*, they’d stick to reality. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @ProjectLincoln: There are #100Days until the November midterm elections. We have a choice to make: America or Trump. https://t.co/CAi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @washingtonpost: Meanwhile, the donations are continuing to roll in, and the hashtag “#ThanksMattGaetz” was trending on Twitter. https:… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @washingtonpost: Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: An unhappy country that might otherwise punish the incumbent party really doesn’t like the… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@CProtopapas Funny how the political party that tried to kill our democracy in an event you consider unimportant is the very same party that is keeping us from putting money into roads and bridges and housing or getting timely justice. It’s almost like there’s a connection you refuse to see. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Major article arriving at PROOF this coming week about the future of the congressional January 6 investigation in 2023 an… — PolitiTweet.org

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A *282-page* filing. He makes this feed seem minimalist. https://t.co/X8772426qh — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: (📢) According to the fully sourced evidence in NYT bestseller Proof of Conspiracy (Macmillan 2019), the Kingdom of Saudi… — PolitiTweet.org

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(MORE) https://t.co/dv1HAgUasj — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(MORE) It appears that Attorney Halligan entered law school—in Florida—immediately after finishing in the Top 5 in the Floridian Trump’s Miss Colorado USA pageant. At the time she had an interest in broadcast media. Now she’s a) Trump’s lawyer, b) featured on Bannon’s “War Room.” — PolitiTweet.org