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oftotc ago

Fascinating study, though connecting a YT producer to a voat account only leads to LARP, nothing more. You infer much more than that. How do you imagine that business transaction goes down?
"Uh Hi buddy. How'd you like to come work for the guy that anyone with an Internet connection knows is doing all the stuff you hate MP for..." I mean, you did say:

So HLI really has something against Mike Pence, and was willing to go to great lengths.

So how can you put someone like t.smith in the roll of accepting an offer to terminate something he'd been doing since 2013(?) in order to hang out on voat-chan and LARP disinfo about someone he already had an ax to grind against, but for $$?? Like, maybe he was tired of the YT gig and wanted to try something new?

Really? This is just a gig ?

That is a tremendous stretch - unless there are nuances to trying to monetize YT channels that I remain naive to.

SoberSecondThought ago

Ah, I see you picked up a slight flaw in how I worded things. Sorry, it's pretty complex stuff. To be clear: HLI has been working for David Brock since 2013, if not even longer. His salary in that role vastly exceeds the value of a YouTube channel with 6,000 subscribers. His job back then included running the phony Tory Smith account. When the Podesta emails hit, and Mike Pence became the VP nominee, he shifted to LARPing as HighLevelInsider and the Tory Smith project was shut down.

He was at all times working for Brock, and was undoubtedly doing other stuff that we have yet to discover. But the time-consuming Tory Smith channel was shut down and HLI started up because of rapidly shifting priorities. The Podesta emails were a very big threat, and it was no longer any use trying to isolate Mike Pence, as Trump had openly allied with him.

Vindicator ago

Sober, what would be really helpful is to make a timeline showing what all these people did on what date, and what else significant was happening. It would be much easier to follow your argument that way.

SoberSecondThought ago

Absolutely! Coming up very soon. Maybe not tomorrow though, going to need a brief break first..