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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBSnUzLYMEQ Enjoy. Also check 4chan for the facial picture matches. As I say - shit gets dumb and scary...

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There’s no proof antifa stormed the Capitol. The rumor spread quickly anyway

https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/07/theres-no-pro...

The FBI says there's no evidence Antifa participated in the riots.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/2021-01-...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/2020-election-misinformati...

No, there is no evidence that antifa activists stormed the Capitol.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/2020-election-misinformati...

Please, try to provide counter-arguments to the evidence present in the video, not just random links to half-dead legacy media. And yes, antifa are no longer affiliated with DP. If they somehow find common ground with the other extreme, things will get real stupid real quick.

As far as I can tell the video only provides evidence of one person with ties to "Insurgence USA" (a left wing group) being inside the capital during the protest. No evidence for 'antifa' and no evidence that there was any organized left-wing presence.

The FBI disagrees with 4Chan, where folks can't seem to figure out that BLM and Antifa forums had photos of white supremacists on them in order to identify them.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/533432-fbi-no-e...

Well, there were definitely far-right people acting provocateur at BLM/A-fa rallies, so I don't see what is wrong with those statements.

A random dude on YouTube and 4chan vs police reports?

I'd expect this on reddit, but not on hn

The 3rd most popular journalist in the world is a random dude? Do you even believe yourself?

I truly want to know by what metric Tim Pool is anything close to the most popular journalist in the world.

Pool seems to have ~1 million subscribers, which is less than the NYT or WaPo. Not to mention TV news. Rachel Maddow gets ~3 million viewers daily, which is similar to Tucker Carlson and Hannity.

And that doesn't even begin to cover things like NBC or ABC nightly news.

A very dumb and easy question. NYT and WaPo have hundreds of journalists, so the average would be in the tens of thousands. You cannot compare an individual and a corporation in such a way. And yes, the most popular journalist today is exactly Tucker and he is not that much more thrustworthy than NYT/WaPo, at least to me.

P.S. While I agree with Pool only ~60% of the time, he has around 1.5M on his other channel.

> A very dumb and easy question. NYT and WaPo have hundreds of journalists, so the average would be in the tens of thousands.

This doesn't follow. Just as an example, Maggie Haberman (an NYT reporter) has more than 1.6 million twitter followers, around 2x Tim's and more than he has subs on any of his channels.

(More broadly, there are a number of junior reporters who don't have big followings at the NYT and other conventional institutions, but there are also a number of very well known journalists who have large followings for their specific content).

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