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[thingexplainer]

At the risk of sounding naive, what do the brackets and sunglassses (edit: they're just glasses) mean and how is it anti-semetic?

[paulmd → thingexplainer]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

No idea on the glasses. Maybe a reference to the stereotypical g-man? i.e. he was trying to say that Jews control the government?

Regardless, the parentheses are pretty straightforward.

[thingexplainer → paulmd]

I misread the tweet, they said "black-rimmed glasses" rather than "sunglasses".

So it seems to boil down to, "It seems like most of our critics are those upwardly-mobile Jews." Another sad chapter in the descent of WikiLeaks from a journalistic organization that was a reason to hope for humanity into a the Daily Mail for the Kremlin instead of GCHQ.

[ryanlol → paulmd]

>Regardless, the parentheses are pretty straightforward.

They really aren't, as the tweets hint they've recently been some sort of an anti-anti-semitism symbol, with lots of jewish people on twitter putting them around their names.