Some early morning thoughts on the evolving social media situation. First, a nod again to @JosephJFlynn1 who continues to lead the way right here at Twitter. How is that even possible? Yet, there it is. Joe gives no ground and offers no surrender or silence. Honor to him!
Second, you'll keep hearing me talk bout Gene Sharp's proposition: Oppression may be probed. Extending that, oppression is not monolithic. It is not all seeing. It is not omniscient and absolutely NOT omnipotent. One may test its reach and tensile strength.
Third, through previous probling, I discovered - many had before me - that hashtags and links are the triggers that Twitter looks for. Thus, their avoidance is, for now, prudent, but gratingly, vexatiously so. My little rebellion is this particular hashtag: #HonestJudges.
Fourth, there are four other platforms I'm pursuing: CloutHub, Telegram, Gab, & Parler. I wouldn't want to bet against Dan Bongino. I'm thinking Parler will be back. If so, it is in good position to win. For now, CloutHub is where it's at, I think.
I don't know Telegram well enough to measure it. I can tell you that as far as Direct Messages go, it's great. Oh, I'm trying to AVOID DMs here at Twitter. They're a danger zone for sure. And I'm not employing DM rooms here at Twitter as they're onto them, 100%.
I don't yet get the channels at Telegram. And, if I'm not mistaken, they're the Microsoft offering, which I detest. I forgot What's App, along with Facebook Messenger. Truth is, I shouldn't dismiss Facebook itself, either.
For instance, I had an awesome conversation, the first in many, many months, over at Facebook about my one and only mission, now, curing the stolen election by reclaiming 1A and voting rights, and facing down the judges who refuse to live by the Constitutional Right of Speech.
I'll post a thread at CloutHub and share it here on that point tomorrow. Even Facebook may be probed, tested, measured. There are always strategies available to defeat the oppressors. There is no such thing as the undefeatable foe. I love that!
Fifth, so what's emerging for me is the hazzy, foggy vision of accounts in all these places, all tested and employed for various purposes. I'll keep you apprised of what I learn.
Sixth, and last, let's return to @JosephJFlynn1. He's working hand in glove with Mike Lindell and Sidney Powell and offers us real hope of ongoing endeavor. Joe offers us hope when hope is hard to find. We've taken some incoming. Just wait till we deliver our outgoing. Ha!
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I'll share some very important data here, right now below, that resulted from the great @JosephJFlynn1's work, yesterday. And I'll guide you to some other connected work as well.
2) Since the great purge, in spite of still having 19,000 followers, down from 31,300, my tweets' reach has plummeted, far more than by the 1/3 of followers lost. Roughly, my tweets reach about 1/10th of the people they were reaching prior to the purge.
3) Take yesterday's small story about various social media platforms, that feature @JosephJFlynn1. Before he retweeted it, it had reached about 1,500 impressions. When I last checked, it was over 22,000 impressions. That is SOLELY due to Joe's retweet and comment.
1) We considered the history of amendments about the vote itself, yesterday. From the most important 1st amendment through those that followed and specifically protected the right: #15, 19, 24 & 26.
2) It’s interesting that the vote is not mentioned in 1A, and then that the format of the following four is built on the phrase: The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied…
We know suppression is real. We know that our #1A rights have no impact upon social media when they deem then "dangerous." So, what do we do?
2) One thing is, join up at CloutHub. I'm working diligently to learn that new platform's capabilities. If it has a single greatest value, I believe that censorship is not its objective. Should I learn I'm wrong, I'll drop it like it's hot.
3) Yet I keep mentioning Gene Sharp's principle:
Oppression may be probed.
Actually, anything can be probed. The greatest probers we know of were the 9/11 terrorists who probed every aspect of our legal and flight security systems. They knew how to probe.
It was with sadness that I chose to stop doing my long-form threads here at Twitter, but I know those of you who follow my work understand why and I won't discuss that any further. I am sharing formally that there will be no more post here.
2) Strangely, as soon as I stopped posting my normal stuff here, my account not only stopped losing followers but began to gain a few, again. Now there's a go figure, eh? I take it from that that obedience is rewarded. I'm pretty sure about that, actually.
3) I learned a new rule. Power can be probed. It can be tested. So, not having anything to lose, my next decision as you can see right now, is to continue to play with the rules of power, here. I am posting over at Gab and have the same name there as here.
Life often gives us signs and signals, and no matter how wrongly we may interpret them - and we truly do often misinterpret - we must still listen anyway.
2) By nature I am the most disobedient man you'll ever meet. When given a command my true nature is to do the opposite. When asked, politely, I behave very differently. My inclination is to say yes, wherever I possibly may. Commands, different story.
3) But this newly born day - it's just after midnight by not quite an hour yet - I received a crystal clear command from the Big Tech overlords and I have obeyed. One of the signals is that I am down about 1,400 followers over the past 6 hours or so. How about that?
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
Yeah. I watched the original Star Wars movie in the theaters when it came out, and I can't tell you how many times I went.
2) I had no idea back then that I'd ever become a swordsman. Watching that scene today, I'm both impressed with the quality of the fighting, as well as cynical about filmed swordsmanship vs the real thing. Still, it's an awesome scene to be sure!
3) It was my greatest criticism of the film that they let Darth Vader strike a kill shot when Obi Wan simply holds up his saber in seeming surrender. But that line, “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” That blew my mind.