MAGA Weirdos Are Hunting Random People Again
5/6/202615 min
Tim Miller and Will Sommer give their take on the Libs of TikTok’s latest campaign targeting a Louisiana doctor and the disturbing evolution of the account growing into right-wing influencer operation. As Libs of TikTok is now deploying a rotating cast of influencer-style hosts to mass-produce outrage content, Tim and Will get into why the anti-cancel culture crowd still seems obsessed with getting random people fired, and how accusations of “violence” are being stretched beyond recognition to punish dissent. Plus, the hypocrisy of the modern free speech debate and why MAGA’s culture war machine never really moved on from cancel culture after all.
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Tim Miller· Host0:41
Hey, everybody. Tim Miller from The Bulwark here with my buddy and colleague, Will Sommer, author of the False Flag newsletter, which you must be reading, and if you're not, what the hell are you doing? Um, I w- I wanted to grab Will because I came across a video with some Louisiana focus, uh, from the folks at Libs of TikTok. And I have to be honest, I, I haven't really paid that much attention to Libs of TikTok for a while, but you guys might remember them as TikTok account that found crazy liberals and then, like, doxxed them and made fun of them and dunked on them and stuff. Apparently it's still going strong. And, uh, I do think it's kind of funny because cancel culture w- was, like, the big thing the right complained about forever, liberal cancel culture, and then, like, the libs kind of stopped doing cancel culture, but right-wing cancel culture's still going strong. [laughs] So anyway, for people who don't remember Libs of TikTok, they'll... I gave kind of the short summary.