Vice Crushed, BallsGang Mourns Losses
A Series On Misinformation, Disinformation, and Subterfuge
Vice News has been deconstructing financially for quite some time with the newsroom being told today that the website is soon to go officially dark.
That’s a good thing.
And before someone says that’s bad, what if that happened to you, I’ll remind you that it has. Repeatedly. And not just from MAGA3x destruction of websites bearing my published work either. Most everything I wrote for years as a journalist and player for Magic the Gathering, has long been erased, as apparently so too has much of the old Pro-Tour coverage removed last year. My entire match history as well as DCI ID number, all gone before I had the opportunity to cross reference the Utah database in the off chance the name of a certain Utah-based confidential informant programmer was among them or not.
But not my memories nor my achievements.
Let’s start.
David Gilbert, Desire Kane and Rocco Castoro, three charlatans I have covered here, each passed through the outlet that burned through far more than they took in.
With the announcement that their collective manufactured history was being erased, there was an expected mad dash to archive the bejesus out of articles, no doubt some of them paid for by the ops themselves, such as David Gilbert’s defamatory libelous articles targeting Jim Stewartson.
Here is the Matt Donovan style Anon sock both above and below marshaling the forces to ‘not be replaced’ by actual truth, calling that ‘reality’ when most of what MAGA3x did was to narrative an alternative desired by their financial backers.
This one was ripe as well, decrying the loss when it isn’t the opinions and paid narratives that matter, rather what actually happened which won’t be lost.
When we come through this rough chapter of US history and the abuses of conspiracy grifters like Mike, Susan Portnoy and Louise Mensch are fully exposed in Federal and state courts, all the lies made by these folks will have been memorialized in legal documents where the history will matter most.