Thread by @NoraReed

i figured people might need a full archive of the MAGA Bomber's tweets and retweets before Twitter takes them all down, so here's a PDF of them, archived this morning scribd.com/document/39169…

it's easier to find stuff from him by searching "from:hardrock2016" and then whatever keywords you're looking for, though

you won't be able to do that once twitter suspends the account though, which i am assuming they will do (they usually do)

i did some archiving of what appears to be his alt account as well:
follows scribd.com/document/39169…
following scribd.com/document/39169…

note that these are from about an hour ago, so there are changes to it based on today's news

i also got an archive of the alt account's tweets, but only going back to January. they suspended it while i was grabbing them scribd.com/document/39169…

i know sometimes there is stuff about not sharing around the stuff these kind of terrorists say but i think there is some possible value in seeing what a run of the mill basic MAGA guy this is

there are thousands of twitter accounts that look just like this. repetitive posting of the same heavily compressed pro-Trump jpegs, breitbart screenshots, etc. twitter does not do anything about their using their platform to organize

let's go a bit into the people and institutions that this guy-- a Trump fan who sent a bunch of mail bombs in an attempted assassination-- is a fan of, shall we?

here he is posting a blog entry that @jeff_poor wrote for @BreitbartNews

here is he retweeting @STEPHMHAMILL on a piece she did for @DailyCaller

here he is sharing a @charliekirk11 / @TPUSA meme

here he is retweeting @RyanAFournier

here he is sharing a screenshot of @silenceconsent

he would often just retweet the same thing over and over and over again, including that one

he's apparently a pretty big @silenceconsent fan

here he is sharing a @FoxNews tweet promoting a @seanhannity show

here he is sharing a @GrrrGraphics cartoon

(sorry about the weird split there; I'm pulling these from the PDF and i thought the best thing to do was to leave that kind of thing unmodified instead of editing the screenshots in any way)

here he is sharing a post from @DRUDGE_REPORT

here he is sharing some anti-semitic propaganda about George Soros @JacobAWohl

I could keep going, but I think you get the picture. If you're asking #WhereWasHeRadicalized, the answer is all the right-wing propagandists you already know about: Breitbart News, TPUSA, Drudge Report, Daily Caller, etc.

I should've said this earlier in the thread, sorry, but: take care of yourself when diving into stuff like this.

https://twitter.com/quatoria/status/1055923871562502145

The problem with this isn't just that Twitter isn't banning threatening accounts like his; it's that they allow the ringleaders that he follows to use their platform to organize. People like this don't appear out of nowhere; they are radicalized by propagandists.

Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are all responsible for allowing these hate groups (and others, such as TERFs) to grow and fester on their platforms, both by failing to ban randos like the MAGA bomber and by failing to ban the "thought leaders" that they organize around.

Some responsibility is also on the shoulders of every news outlet that gave those "thought leaders" legitimacy by platforming them and giving them softball coverage and pretending to not notice their racist, violent dogwhistles.

If any of this is useful and you want to thank me for it, jump on over to @transscribe's feed and throw some money at one of the crowdfunds she retweets.

And if you happened to grab the full archive of his alt account before Twitter suspended it, let me know and I'll share it.