Paid agitator Avi Yemini’s plan to harvest votes for One Nation

We need legal reform that requires paid political agitators to disclose their earnings, especially when they gain by exploiting democratic institutions, writes Tom Tanuki.

WE TALK TO 774 ABC Melbourne Raf Epstein About the media campaign in Victoria’s upcoming state election, which involved deceiving voters using vote-harvesting techniques. Avi Oath was typically fluent beginning When Epstein asked:

“Are you trying to deceive voters?”

Yemini replied:

“What do you mean, deceiving voters? We are trying to ‘liberate Palestine’.”

This referred to the “Free Palestine Party”, which was only the first of several parties. shell parties Founded by Yemini and other influencers Monica Smith — all designed to sway the upper house’s above-the-line preferences of uninformed voters toward One Nation.

I posted a YouTube video on the subject:

Raf Epstein is, of course, right to bring the issue to the attention of the audience. The void is almost universally reviled and has already been abolished in all other states. As the Victorian Electoral Commission it will likely only survive until the upcoming Victorian State Election (VEC), warned that it was too late to abandon this law without jeopardizing the integrity of the electoral system.

So why are you calling on Yemini to discuss the media campaign?

This once again points to a persistent misunderstanding about what exactly figures like Yemini produce as an end product. The mainstream media is surprisingly stubborn about getting this issue wrong.

Epstein described the Oath as follows: “right-wing provocateur”. And that’s the way it looks, of course, with his background and all his stunts. Bringing Yemini on ABC Radio to defend his position is based on the assumption that his aim is to defend any political position.

But Yemini’s final product is not a coherent Far Right political agenda. Actually Oath railing the same vote-gathering tactic was used by the “preference whisperer” in 2022 Glenn Druerywho created the shell “Fire Dan Andrews“party.

What Yemini creates are media campaigns, as I explained above. It then produces popular hyper-partisan videos that generate subscriptions by filling them with headline-making stunts. The most popular ones involve interference in democratic institutions.

He is almost by definition a paid agitator.

Why would a paid agitator who says in his own videos that he is trying to deceive voters ask if he is trying to deceive voters?

Epstein or at least one member of his team must be aware that ABC’s The Oath is a content mainstay for its audience. You can discover this by looking at Yemini’s channel, where she has produced at least seven videos in the last month, all related to ABC.

Naturally, Yemini rushed to transfer the Epstein interview to YouTube videoreleased less than a day later, Leftists Suffer Collapse After Their Fraud Is Exposed. The video is more or less the entire conversation in video format, augmented by a standard plea for subscribers at the end.

The video received 146 thousand views as of the time of writing. This view count is much higher than its size Epstein’s audience any morning. Yemini’s best performing video of the past month.

So while hiring her benefits him, a visible partner does not benefit the other party. ABC Radio audience base, educational or otherwise.

I have often discussed the techniques practiced by Yemini and Rebel News generating income using what some now call “litigation entertainment” or “performative litigation.” We’re just as in the dark about exactly how much money Yemini is making from these endless media campaigns as we were when I first wrote about the tactic here in 2022.

We know from Yemini own admissionHe said just one of those campaigns during quarantine earned him at least $100,000. Therefore, it is possible for every successful campaign to provide this amount of profit to its team. It is undoubtedly the end point for a stuntman to have too much exposure to the mainstream media.

me in 2022A. In my column on tactics, I came to the following conclusion:

‘What I want to emphasize now is that the point is not to take legal action… If the funds accumulated for frivolous legal action exceed the cost of taking it, who cares what the outcome is? It doesn’t matter if every legal challenge is rejected… The goal seems to be money.’

Abuse of group ticket voting is the same trick. Beyond meddling in the courts, it is now meddling in the democratic institution of the electoral process. All for financial gain.

But as I mentioned in my video, I’m ambivalent about anyone publicly interfering with group ticket voting. Should have been removed in 2024 Electoral Matters Committee first one definitive recommendation to scrap it. Druery’s dirty hustle and bustle It was a shot across the bow years ago. The parasitism of the Oath, then, is what we receive as punishment for our complacency.

Interfering with and abusing democratic institutions as a form of engaging entertainment is now a ubiquitous, global moneymaker.

YouTuber Ethan Kleinwho once bravely (and successfully) The man who fought to defend YouTubers’ right to fair use of clips for commentary is now a millionaire who babysits his mass audience through constant legal action that financially starves, subordinates, or silences his anti-Zionist critics. This is what influencers do everywhere. This is the internet now.

Epstein asked Yemini about the gap in the caucus voting ticket:

“Do you think this is a good system?”

Yemini replied:

“I think it’s a bad system.”

“Then why are you exploiting it?”

“Well… as long as it exists… don’t hate the player, hate the game. I hate the game.”

Avi Yemini, on the contrary, loves the “game”. Disturbing democratic institution uses “vote” no matter what daily He may act as a parasite by doing stupid tricks to make money.

We need legal reform that requires paid political agitators like this to disclose the amount of their earnings from “donations” and subscriptions, especially when they profit by exploiting democratic institutions.

I have been championing this cause for years and will continue to do so until even the Raf Epsteins of this world realize that they are dealing with a paid agitator, not a political provocateur.

Epstein asked Avi:

“Do you make money from founding the party?”

Yemini replied:

“No, I lost money, about $800.”

If Epstein can’t understand the level of nonsense being fed to him here, then he is unfit to participate in the Oath show. Explain to Yemini what the exact subscription revenue is as a result of all these interventions. Only then is it worth getting on the air.

Tom Tanuki is an IA columnist, author, satirist and anti-fascist activist whose weekly videos commenting on Australia’s political wing are published on: YouTube. You can follow him on Twitter/X @tom_tanuki.

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