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In reply to the discussion: Beware of Louise Mensch [View all]Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)68. Been following her since the elections. Saw & read IRT when she realized how awful Milo was.
The extreme blatant racism and the pedo speech video.
She herself was never a Trumper.
EXCERPT:
Milo Yiannopoulos, the provocateur journalist, and I, were once friendly. And then, due to the alt-right and his support for it, we were not. We were, however, still civil.
Before the recent revelations of Yiannopoulos position on child abuse, he had both a book deal, of some consequence, and was doing a tour of colleges. At Heat Street, we often covered the early stages of that tour, where liberal students would try to deny the conservative provocateur a platform by shouting him down. I was and am in favor of free speech.
However, in the period just before and after the election, those normal student protests suddenly became violent. And yet nobody could find the so-called students who were causing violent trouble. I started to suspect that Russian active measures were involved in funding these riots. The independent journalist Caroline @RVAwonk has a number of good threads on twitter about how Russian-Trump linked provocateurs like Baked Alaska will travel to places like Berkeley, looking to cause trouble.
However, I did not pursue this line of thought as I had other, bigger, fish to fry.
There was one thing on Twitter that caught my notice, however.
END OF EXCERPT.
LINK: https://patribotics.blog/2017/05/25/milo-yiannopoulus-has-an-account-with-a-fisa-targeted-russian-bank/
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SaschaHM
42. Umm... This photo was right after the election
Milo was a known alt-right super trumper well before that.
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Are you known for politics on Twitter? I tweet but those two do the self promoting Twitter bullshit
bettyellen
May 2017
#10
Well rumours discussed AS rumours are pretty harmless. It's phony to say that's the same as
bettyellen
May 2017
#18
There are a number of her stories that have been picked up by actual journalists
bathroommonkey76
May 2017
#41
This is *exactly* why I take her with a grain of salt...Milo the pediphilo, and the "DeVos is
LaydeeBug
May 2017
#39
Antonin Scalia and Ruth Ginsberg were good friends. Do you condemn her for that?
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#71
Yes, you are being cute by making heavy insinuations without drawing conclusions.
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#81
Then I'd be grateful for you to stop muddying the waters in this thread with your non-arguments. .nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#84
She was friends with him till he came out as ALT-Right, Racist Super-Trumper & Pedo
Madam45for2923
May 2017
#25
Been following her since the elections. Saw & read IRT when she realized how awful Milo was.
Madam45for2923
May 2017
#68
Wow! and well meaning Milo came to the rescue-- or something! Woah! Sarcasm
Madam45for2923
May 2017
#29
Milo is lashing out at her due to her latest article linking him to Russian SVB Bank(FISA warrant)
wishstar
May 2017
#19
She was friends with him till he came out as ALT-Right, Racist Super-Trumper & Pedo
Madam45for2923
May 2017
#32
I only wish anything coming from Mensch be posted with her name in the tagline
HopeAgain
May 2017
#31
Well. I WAS taking her with a grain of salt. But if MILO says not to trust her, I'm going to read
Squinch
May 2017
#57
I think all of the people in this convo have problems, including Seth.
Starry Messenger
May 2017
#64
You fell for the contention from an untrustworthy source 100x worse than Mensch ever was
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#69