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DNC, DHS, FBI, Twitter All Monitoring “Beto Is A Furry” Meme, Other “Disinformation”
Loomer's site ^ | October 16, 2019 | Peter M. D'Abrosca

Posted on 10/16/2019 8:54:28 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

According to a Tuesday POLITICO report, there is a massive and coordinated effort on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), federal law enforcement agencies, and social media outlets like Twitter to monitor and remove “disinformation” from the internet during the 2020 election cycle.

In principle, this effort is an authoritarian effort to control the free flow of information which will almost certainly be used against conservatives on behalf of the leftist political establishment. To wit, the aforementioned organizations, which include the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are working to tackle what they view as a disinformation tactic called “dogpiling,” which is when a group of people band together to swarm a candidate’s social media profile.

Candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke has been a “victim” of this tactic.

The “Beto is a furry” meme has been a longstanding troll for the candidate, who used to dress in a skintight sheep costume and rock out during his jam band days.

A furry, for those who are unfamiliar, is “an enthusiast for animal characters with human characteristics, in particular a person who dresses up in costume as such a character or uses one as an avatar online.”

O’Rourke fits the definition, but according to POLITICO, the established order has not taken kindly to the Twitter troll.

“After the September debate, DNC Tech sent out a summary of suspicious activity it spotted by monitoring Twitter,” the report said. “The party found that a Twitter thread by Beto O’Rourke was the target of ‘dogpiling,’ the technical term for when trolls coordinate on one thread to dominate the candidate’s mentions. The Beto dogpile concerned a popular meme that says Beto is a furry.”

DNC Tech is an organization setup specifically to monitor such things, from actual disinformation to Twitter trolling, and to protect its candidates from the internet at large.

Policing the “Beto is a furry” meme is a funny example of how our overlords have been trolled into oblivion, and how they are obviously upset about it.

But there are more serious ramifications to this overbearing thought police system. In fact, the thought police were out in full force during Tuesday night’s debate.

“In its note to campaigns, the DNC explained that as with previous debates, on Tuesday night Twitter would also have its own cyber war room set up to monitor ‘debate-related discourse for coordinated manipulation,'” POLITICO said. “Campaigns were instructed to ‘forward any hashtags your campaign expects to use or expects to be used against you (‘hatetags’) during the debates; to the DNC for monitoring.”

Obviously, no sane person is advocating on behalf of misinformation. But consider what’s actually happening here. Very powerful, historically left-wing entities are aligning to decide what can and cannot be said about particular candidates, and what qualifies as “disinformation” is totally subjective and up to those powerful left-wing entities. It’s a power mechanism designed to benefit the political left. That’s why they’re putting memes in the same category as intentional lies.

Worse still, POLITICO said that 4,000 social media accounts were removed after the September debates, based on the discretion of this power mechanism.

We’ve seen over and over that conservatives get banned from social media for vague “terms of service” violations. Does anyone really trust the DNC, the high-level law enforcement entities who tried to stop Trump from becoming president in 2016, and far-left Twitter to give conservatives a fair shake and allow them to speak freely during the 2020 cycle? Or is it more likely that conservative speech will be deemed to be “disinformation,” and those conservatives will be barred from political discourse?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bantwitter; beto; bloggers; dnc; dogpile; freespeech; furry; internet; media; sheepo; technotyranny
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n1r13gVPmLA

Joking about Party members and forms of disrespect will not be tolerated.


21 posted on 10/16/2019 9:23:51 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

But what does the fox say? /Ylvis


22 posted on 10/16/2019 9:24:48 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: RightGeek

Can’t stop laughing! That video is a riot. I am now of the opinion that Beto (Sheepo?) is the most bizarre of the twelve Dem candidates.


23 posted on 10/16/2019 9:27:07 AM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
This thread needs a picture:


24 posted on 10/16/2019 9:37:24 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Beto needs a little salt?


25 posted on 10/16/2019 9:39:10 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: JonPreston
I’m too old to appreciate whatever it is that’s being discussed.

I sing along with the Cookies. It works wonders for those of US in the KISS age group.

Chainge, the democrats got me locked up in chainge

And they ain’t the kind that you can see

Whoa, their chainge of lies got a hold on me, yeah

Chainge, well I can’t break away from their change

Can’t breakaway my minds not free

Whoa I’m chained to their lies about democracy, yeah

Now believe me when I tell you, freedom is Divine

I’d like to live it but Donald I’m imprisoned by their change

Democrats got me locked into change

Their group think ways are stifling me

Whoa their chainge has coaxed US into tyranny, yeah

I wanna tell you, Mr. President, you are doing fine

I support your agenda but I can’t break away from all of their change

Progressives got me locked up in change

And they ain’t the kind easy to break free

Whoa these are chainges forged in democracy, yeah.

Chainge chainge of lies chainge of lies

26 posted on 10/16/2019 9:39:45 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (Drain swamp drain.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
He is NOT a furry!

He's a Brony

A fan of the show "My Little Pony:

Friendship is Magic". Often male, but female fans are not uncommon. (plural: bronies) Bronies usually show a want to be accepted as normal people, but don't appear to realise that to be treated the same as anyone else, they need to stop making sure everyone knows and remembers that they are a brony at all times, without fail.

27 posted on 10/16/2019 9:41:38 AM PDT by seowulf
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Nah Bubba started Project Echelon 1st

You know 0 is too stupid to have done this alone


28 posted on 10/16/2019 9:52:08 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: samtheman

A ha ha ha !

You mean I can’t say Beatoff said to
wax his @ss and buff his b@lls?


29 posted on 10/16/2019 9:54:45 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
"The Beto dogpile..."

A technical term for O'Rourke's campaign platform...

30 posted on 10/16/2019 9:57:33 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Phil DiBasquette

If the dems ever get their way, I bet they will give themselves the power to restrict internet access to those who give offense.


31 posted on 10/16/2019 10:06:56 AM PDT by samtheman (The drive-by wmedia is the true boss of the democommie party.)
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To: seowulf
I haven't seen any evidence that Beto is a brony (and trust me, I would know!). From what I've heard he's not a real furry either, his band performed in costume. But just to make shure, check Room 366.
32 posted on 10/16/2019 10:19:17 AM PDT by CtBigPat (Qanon - Please be real...)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Dear NSA, FBI, and assorted other asshat, tyrannical federal agencies: Am I on your phucking lists yet? No?

What about NOW?

33 posted on 10/16/2019 10:39:56 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

“Beto” cannot pull the wool over our eyes. No matter what the FBI and DHS do, these facts will dog his campaign forever. And why shouldn’t they? “Beto” loves being on the bottom of the dogpile; he always hops back up with a suspiciously sheepish grin.


34 posted on 10/16/2019 11:13:45 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Ancesthntr

Good one!


35 posted on 10/16/2019 11:50:01 AM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: CtBigPat
I haven't seen any evidence that Beto is a brony

Evidence? Why would you need that when you have a whistleblowr like me who "heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend, that he's been messin'around."

36 posted on 10/16/2019 12:37:06 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: samtheman

Oh trust me between outright bans demonetization
and other (IMO illegal) discrimination its being done

In this area, as in the area of cracking Antifa and illegals heads
With federal resources trump is lacking. He may be tolerating the
illegal behavior to show he is not a Nazi, which of course
he isn’t, but he will be hated and conspired against anyway
so he might as well do what’s right by not only his acolytes
but the nation before normal people really get fed up and
take matters in their own hands


37 posted on 10/16/2019 4:07:52 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: seowulf

Brony... word of the day for me. Thanx, I had no idea.


38 posted on 10/16/2019 5:15:24 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: seowulf

Also, I said “he is a furry” just to defy any monitoring agencies, regardless of actual finer definitional distinctions.


39 posted on 10/16/2019 5:16:20 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

There actually is a brony in the division where I work, complete with pony belt buckle.

He is surly and has mommy issues. He is also why I don’t mind participating in active shooter drills if you know what I mean.


40 posted on 10/16/2019 5:29:30 PM PDT by seowulf
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