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The CEO Trying to Build a Christian Secessionist Tech Industry

17 points by gfosco 5y ago

jmeister 5y ago
What happened to TNR? So sad.
gfosco 5y ago
Response from Torba: https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-hit-piece-6123a618228ef8d06df3dedb https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-h...
1MachineElf 5y ago
>Featured in a recent newsletter by Andrew Torba, the CEO and co-founder of parent company Gab AI, the video, down to its title, perfectly expresses Gab’s editorial line: a mix of faux expertise (Paul is a former eye surgeon), populist outrage, and selective analytical insight that invariably lands in a place where the elites are lying to you, America has lost its way, and white Christian values are under attack. The video also signifies Torba’s own rising profile as a right-wing, Christian (he signs all of his newsletter posts “Jesus is King”), conservative tech mogul, one who seeks to create his own alternative technological and epistemological universe, free of Facebook-deputized fact-checkers, interventionist government bureaucrats, and censorious liberal tech companies. There was no link to the video in this article. Is there proof that Torba said "white Christian values are under attack"? Did he even say "white" in the video at all? I doubt it. Today, Torba responded to similar characterization by NYT and WaPo: https://news.gab.com/2021/08/23/hit-piece-on-gab-falls-flat-makes-gab-look-based/#more-3043 https://news.gab.com/2021/08/23/hit-piece-on-gab-falls-flat-... Here we have 3 journalists who together are so desperate to turn public opinion against this man that they must lie and evoke the tired old white supremacist Christian trope.
- DerekL 5y ago
  > There was no link this video in this article. The Rand Paul was linked to in the first paragraph, “in a new video making the rounds on social media”.
  - 1MachineElf 5y ago
    Yes, but that's not the Torba video being described here. The Rand Paul video is actually irrelevant to the story. At best it serves as a bad introductory example (Rand Paul is not a white nationalist) and at worst it's a deflection of the fact that they purposefully don't include a link to the Torba video. Almost as if the clickbaity headline is the only real story they want to tell here.
- lolwuuuuut 5y ago
  So, a guy who ticks all the boxes for being a white nationalist in his statements, on the record, needed to have a bunch of journalists conspire to paint him in a bad light? You think it’s more likely that the journalists are making shit up on the record, than this guy just being an asshole? Funny that when you hang out with Nazis, defend Nazis being able to congregate to discuss Nazi things in a safe for Nazis kinda space… that people might assume you’re a Nazi.
  - 1MachineElf 5y ago
    Everything you've mentioned is addressed in Torba's rebuttal: https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-hit-piece-6123a618228ef8d06df3dedb https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-h...
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FearNotDaniel 5y ago
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
- FearNotDaniel 5y ago
  “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
- FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
  Parent is not just a guy spamming Bible quotes. It's actually apt.

17 points by gfosco 5y ago

What happened to TNR? So sad.

Response from Torba: https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-hit-piece-6123a618228ef8d06df3dedb https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-h...

1MachineElf 5y ago

>Featured in a recent newsletter by Andrew Torba, the CEO and co-founder of parent company Gab AI, the video, down to its title, perfectly expresses Gab’s editorial line: a mix of faux expertise (Paul is a former eye surgeon), populist outrage, and selective analytical insight that invariably lands in a place where the elites are lying to you, America has lost its way, and white Christian values are under attack. The video also signifies Torba’s own rising profile as a right-wing, Christian (he signs all of his newsletter posts “Jesus is King”), conservative tech mogul, one who seeks to create his own alternative technological and epistemological universe, free of Facebook-deputized fact-checkers, interventionist government bureaucrats, and censorious liberal tech companies. There was no link to the video in this article. Is there proof that Torba said "white Christian values are under attack"? Did he even say "white" in the video at all? I doubt it. Today, Torba responded to similar characterization by NYT and WaPo: https://news.gab.com/2021/08/23/hit-piece-on-gab-falls-flat-makes-gab-look-based/#more-3043 https://news.gab.com/2021/08/23/hit-piece-on-gab-falls-flat-... Here we have 3 journalists who together are so desperate to turn public opinion against this man that they must lie and evoke the tired old white supremacist Christian trope.

DerekL 5y ago
> There was no link this video in this article. The Rand Paul was linked to in the first paragraph, “in a new video making the rounds on social media”.
- 1MachineElf 5y ago
  Yes, but that's not the Torba video being described here. The Rand Paul video is actually irrelevant to the story. At best it serves as a bad introductory example (Rand Paul is not a white nationalist) and at worst it's a deflection of the fact that they purposefully don't include a link to the Torba video. Almost as if the clickbaity headline is the only real story they want to tell here.
lolwuuuuut 5y ago
So, a guy who ticks all the boxes for being a white nationalist in his statements, on the record, needed to have a bunch of journalists conspire to paint him in a bad light? You think it’s more likely that the journalists are making shit up on the record, than this guy just being an asshole? Funny that when you hang out with Nazis, defend Nazis being able to congregate to discuss Nazi things in a safe for Nazis kinda space… that people might assume you’re a Nazi.
- 1MachineElf 5y ago
  Everything you've mentioned is addressed in Torba's rebuttal: https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-hit-piece-6123a618228ef8d06df3dedb https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-h...

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FearNotDaniel 5y ago

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

FearNotDaniel 5y ago
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
Parent is not just a guy spamming Bible quotes. It's actually apt.