tiny political win, covid
Excellent, looks like I ended up in various of the Utrecht protest pictures over at the NOS, wearing a face mask...
This was a sort of tiny sub-goal of going there yesterday and being very visible, the media could do with more visible presence of facemasks... hopefully a tiny contribution to fighting the idea that COVID is "over"
protest stuff
Now to wait and see whether the fascist broadcaster has the guts to broadcast their attempt at 'interviewing' me where I made fun of them
re: protest stuff
Thinking back to the time that the other fascist broadcaster (powned) tried to get incriminating footage of our Occupy camp, growing visibly frustrated over the next 3 hours as they desperately tried (and failed) to collect incriminating footage and we just kept trolling their interviews because we'd done "how to deal with fascists" media training upfront
They ended up broadcasting like 20 seconds of generic footage, after even their attempt to break our tents failed and they gave up
Fascist reporters can get fucked
re: protest stuff
@joepie91
what does that training look like?
just curious
re: protest stuff
@StroomAfwaarts It's somewhat dependent on the current tactics they use, but one perennial tactic on the part of these broadcasters is to ask leading questions and then cut-and-paste the answers to imply you've agreed to *different* things
So the fastest way to drive these "reporters" to frustration is to make sure that you always include part of the question into the answer and never answer with just a "yes" or "no" (rather make it something kinda fuzzy that implicitly confirms/denies it), and watch them realize that none of this footage is really editable
Other tactics vary, but include "making the most well-spoken people also the most visually identifiable" (colourful clothing and a front position are good ones) so that they are picked for interviews, and never really answering their questions but instead diverting the answers into your own winding narrative about what *you* think is important
re: protest stuff
@StroomAfwaarts Their ultimately goal is to make you look bad, silly, clueless, not worth taking seriously, and so they are always looking for spectacle that paints themselves in a relatively good light and the interviewee in a relatively bad light
If they can't get that sort of spectacle out of you, they will eventually get bored and give up
re: protest stuff
@StroomAfwaarts Whatever you end up doing, it's important that you remove people who are not confident to speak publicly, from the picture - they are the most likely to say things that can be turned into incriminating footage because they leave pauses and "uhhs" and "ahhms", so they should remain mostly unnoticeable, and if they are still picked out, they should act as boring and uninteresting as possible