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Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Fight “Ifindretards” Account (newrepublic.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by StillAlive@piefed.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I guess he's never heard of the Streisand Effect.

That Twitter user must be laughing hysterically right now. The FBI Director just gave him more PR than he could have dreamed of.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

That Twitter user must be laughing hysterically right now.

He seems to be enjoying it.

https://x.com/IfindRetards?lang=en

We got Jake Tapper to say "retard" on CNN.

Wild times.

That comment presently has 15k likes and 648k views, for Director Patel's statistics.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

After he gets his well-deserved fallout from this, let's rename it the Kash effect. Or does Patel effect sound better?

Wouldn't that be the biggest Streisand effect ever.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

just 'kosh'.. like, "man, that tweet koshed so fucking hard"