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TikTok, Bin Ladin, Active Measures: A Letter to the Cool Kids

Nadin Brzezinski
7 min readNov 17, 2023

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My readers are aware of media influences on TikTok, speaking of how Usama Bin Ladin was right. They read his Letter to America. Yes, the Guardian removed it, and these young people believe it was somehow hidden from them. It has lived on the Director of National Intelligence website for decades. It falls in the same category as why I follow Tass, Izvestia, and Hamas; yes, I follow Hamas on Telegram and other toxic entities. Know thy enemy; it’s been standard advice for centuries.

So, here is the link to the primary document we have not hidden from the cool kids. However, it’s time to address the youth in places like TikTok, where they continue to spread fudd in the name of revolution. In the archives here is the 2002 document.

First, I get the anger. The precariat is leading to very justified anger at the system. You are just one generation to be there. Your grandparents, yes, the ’68 generation, loved Che and carried the little red book from Mao everywhere. They were also angry. Many were in college, partly to avoid the army, but that’s another story. No, it’s not another story; they were there because they did not want to serve in the military in Vietnam. It was not because college was hell-expensive. It was because the jungles of Vietnam could get them killed.

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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