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Also, "I'll check this out and include it in my citations" is a much much much different reaction than Gil has taken. Blocking everyone and leaning heavily on misogynistic character assaults while absolutely refusing to acknowledge the network of research he claims to be a part of.

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It is not entirely different. Read it for yourself and see. Or post both into AI and ask it what the differences are if you're curious but not curious enough to read it yourself.

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Because if you read his work and her work, his is a subversion of the root cause of the rot, which misleads us in correcting it. But it's more shock and awe and supervillain-ish. Which sells and is cool.

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Plagiarism is bad. Plagiarizing and then refocusing our attention to a powerful Boogeyman we can't Touch or change instead of simple honest things like financial reform which we can literally change, especially once we win back Congress and senate, is a bigger problem.

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The conversation isn't new. Focusing explicitly on Peter Theil misses the actual point. Even then, as I circled, it was venture capital that built the fascist machine.

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Rather than the systemic structures that are building modern tech fascism. His approach undermines the relevance of you linking the past more than it connects the dots. The structures that build tech fascism are venture capital and US business laws. And government contracts awarding fascists.

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Neither of their work is about 1930's US tech fascism. This is not a gotcha. Also my main real concern with Gil isn't the plagiarism as much as it is the conclusions he draws about the roots of the problems. He focused mostly on the bad character and ideologies of tech elites,

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IBM is the OG American tech fascism.

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He mentions nothing of the venture capital that's building the tech fascism he claims to criticize. That's either negligent or intentional. I don't know which. I don't claim to know his motives. But that's the primary difference in his and Shanley's work. And that hers is older.

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Gil already blocked me. You win. Keep believing Gil's narrative that the root cause of techno-fascism is a few bad apples with sociopathic ideologies, and not a financial and economic structure that is systematically building a fascist country and world. Good luck with that.

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I bought multiple copies of his book and gave them to people I know needed to learn. I am only speaking up because of the nature of the attacks he and people like you make that focus on how "she's a crazy lady" as evidence for something it isnt.

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Attempting to beat people you disagree with into submission with insults and zero credible discussion or evidence is the thing you just described. Stanley has proof of all of her work. Gil doesn't. That's the conversation if you'd like to prove Gil's sources, please do!

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You're proving Shanley's case. And so is Gil when he engages in character assassination rather than showing his work and sources like a journalist does.

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You're half right. It's more of an ad hominem fallacy. Though I could argue it's both.

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Nobody cares about this character assassination drama. Everyone cares about the authenticity of work being published. Because that's how we make change. Honest reporting and information.

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A straw man argument does not answer the questions many people have of the sources of this research.

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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 12/10/2026

The question at hand is not whether we "know who this person is" or that "she's a lunatic". The question is: Why is her research that does appear to be demonstrably older and more in depth than yours not receiving credit and citations? This conversation can't be washed away with a straw man fallacy

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Captain Coal @coalj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I finally broke through to some older family members about David Brooks being a right wing paid influencer paid by billionaires to lie to them. It took years of work.

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Captain Coal @coalj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There appears to be a conflict of information sourcing here that needs sorted out honestly. Vcinfodocs is older than Gil's work and more in depth and includes sources. www.vcinfodocs.com

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

S-400 are indeed more difficult to detect than Iskanders. I am usually not into conspiracy theories, but I'd well see this as a russian-American joint message to Ukraine that if you don't coerce, this is how you'll be seeing all of ballistic missiles soon.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Paging David Brooks

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Captain Coal @coalj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He's a right wing controlled opposition ring leader. NYT pays him to tell Democrats to be Republicans. And some of the dumbest ones listen.

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Hell yes! It's vital to our existence to recognize the atrocities of the past and to do better in the present!

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David Brooks is a well paid conservative political influencer whose target audience is the educated, quasi-intellectual opposition to the fascists he serves. He's the very definition of controlled opposition. Well, he and Ezra Klein can fight over this title.

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Krasnov holds no cards. Sold out the USA's credibility to protect Putin, and can't.

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