Thread by @sundersays

How to foment radicalisation online.

"Watch Mike Pompeo" is the code to Anerican Patriots

It is about creating a heightened sense of excitement about a major event to change the outcome.

Similar method to the Jan 6th march

The clearly now re-radicalised Maajid Nawaz is on message, tweeting "every 30 minutes"

This is what all the QAnon and pro-Trump networks have been asked to do.

We really must see @lbc & @QuilliamOrg finally stage some intervention after 2 months of increasing reradicalisation

Few of the contributors to the China conspiracy letter have any Covid Covid credentials. Most have championed the Trump fraud claims. The glossy video suggest the letter's timing may be coordinated rather than coincidental

Why is the director of the *counterextremism* @QuilliamOrg and an @lbc broadcaster consciously taking an active role in formenting online radicalisation and conspiracies on behalf of a radicalised anti-democratic movement that launched a violent insurrection a week ago?

This Simon Parkes website had disseminate the message to Trump supporters who want to know what the plan is
simonparkes.org/amp/watch-mike…

The re-radicalisation of Mr Majid Nawaz, who once found the personal resilience to deradicalise, is now hiding in plain sight.

"Darkness before dawn"

"Lice". "Rotten". And the responses.

Spalding's full tweet

We do not know whether Pompeo's social media activity is actually connected to this theory

I do think we can be 100% confident that Mr Nawaz would not tweet "every 30 minutes" without being entirely aware of the theory on tweet timing that "this is code to all US patriots".

The Simon Parkes website appears to be down. It is a pro-Trump site. I do not know much about it beyond that.

Someone who knows much more about the history and nature of conspiracies @DAaronovitch observed that being in a group that has privileged knowledge of future events is the type of conspiracy that seems to have a special appeal to Mr Nawaz

https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1346736776875016192?s=19

More on flavour of this "Pompeo countdown" theory being grasped by the radicalised (hoping to "trust the plan") + anxiety about whether there is still a Trump plan. Mr Nawaz participation in this extremist meme goes so far beyond debating Pence's powers or Electoral College rules

It seems likely that the State Department have scheduled SoS Pompeo's tweets about the administration's record. On forums, each tweet is eagerly awaited then greeted excitedly as a signal to stand by. This is one prediction about the Trump administration taking office.

Useful context on Simon Parkes, a major source of spreading the Pompeo countdown. (Perhaps the originator, I do not know)

https://twitter.com/john_mcguirk/status/1349053644864450560?s=19

Another example of the "Pompeo Countdown" online meme as a source of heightened excitement by those who have been radicalised by misinformation and conspiracies.

Some of the imagery being used by those caught up in this 'Pompeo Countdown' extremist conspiracy meme, seeking to heighten excitement among the radicalised that there is a secret plan for Trump to retain power.

MN did 3 of the '30 minutes' Pompeo countdown tweets. Its clear that he and those responding know the code & the online theory about it

"Right on cue. 30 minutes"

'Another one. Every 30 minutes'

Some responses. Though one user does tell him the 30 minutes countdown theory has "no connection to reality"

Pompeo's mentions are full of the countdown theory
- some are very excited
- some are worried it might not mean anything
- some suggest its a ploy to stop people rising up (!)

Thread capturing how some users are finding secret signals everywhere to show that something massive is about to happen
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1348456…

I am not familiar with this image, a Punisher skull. (I did tweet yesterday that this was among the alarming imagery being tweeted by QAnon advocates of the Pompeo countdown). Mr Nawaz today posted it to Facebook, without comment/context. (So I do not know what he means by that).

This piece is about its adoption as a QAnon symbol. (It has had other meanings too, as a Marvel comics icon).

https://twitter.com/GrumpyOW/status/1349475262036119554?s=19

Maajid Nawaz says "Lol!" at people "freaking out". He was "reclaiming a Marvel comic book symbol" and will not let the woke cancel yet another childhood memory & rearrange history

Could he be "reclaiming" the slogan WWG1WGA too? This is a QAnon slogan, where we go one, we go all, which is posted in reply to him, and which he 'likes'

I am not familiar with "BQQM" but it is used by QAnon supporters, perhaps to mix-up "Q" and "Boom". Mr Nawaz 'likes' BQQM!! as a reply on his Facebook page.