I realised this last night but wanted to leave it to rule out that it was simply a matter of the post not being up long enough.
It's potentially linked to how many likes and shares, as the post with the bot/sock attention was 10x more popular, but I don't think it's that.
2/?
What you have to realise is sock puppet activity may look like random bellends sounding off, but it's meant to. What sock puppet activity is, is organised campaigning to skew natural discourse and debate online, to interject more of a set perspective.
3/?
In the same way one person can voice a whole draw full of fabric sock puppets (indeed, most parents of toddlers do), one handler regulates a group of Twitter sock puppet accounts. Some bother to try to look like a human, with scraped photos, bios, etc. but many don't try.
4/?
You can see in the 1st thread where I have argued with some sock puppets. Some of the consistent lines of discord they promoted were:
- Your child is violent
- Your parenting is suspect
- The left are bad people
In the 2nd thread my child was actually violent. Not a peep.
5/?
What does it tell us?
It tells us what motivates the sock puppet handlers isn't the prevention of violence, if it was they would be all over the incident of my child assaulting a boy.
Instead they turned on the outrage for a drawing.
It's idolatry- the worship of SYMBOLS.
6/?
Who else used a lot of symbols, all the time and had propaganda in every corner of citizens daily lives- even regulating how citizens communicate to eachother?
Had Twitter existed, Goebbels would of course have flooded it until he could ban it.
I can't do a lot about the presence of sock puppets. I have no intention of becoming right-wing (or worse, far-right), so it will continue to happen that some of my tweets are targeted.
What I can do though, is watch them right back, and learn from them- that's important.
8/?
The thing I have learned here (and you should too) is that there's a clear sock agenda to legitimise iconography and that in turn tells us, they are planning the increased use of symbols as a substitute for values.
It's a diversification of flag shagging, essentially.
9/10
And because all these systems are interconnected behind the scenes, what the sock puppets hawk about in one season, emerges as government policy the next.
Mandatory flags anyone? 10 years for egging a statue?
Expect more idolatry.
Be alert to it.
10/10
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Policing in Britain has traditionally been by consent. Attacking peaceful (if disruptive) protests crosses a line into policing by force.
That this approach began in multiple police forces simultaneously right as the bill went to the vote, suggests it's new UK wide strategy.
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If it is a new UK wide strategy the only person who can be directing it, is Patel, as Home Sec.
Bristol didn't fall in line on the correct day (Fri 12 March- the Clapham vigil). Sussex did and the Met did, that's why their protests went sour. Bristol didn't right away.
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Here is a very senior officer at Avon & Somerset police, just coincidentally dropping by, to pet the lovely horsies, at 4pm today.
Today's police actions were purely responsive, yep yep, not pre-planned in person, this afternoon, and set up, to make a point, nope nope.
OMG. Little One just filled in the gaps on a story we half knew...
Another child said he wanted to be a Nazi. LO smacked him and stamped on his foot. LO served a punishment for this crime (time out), and has just described the punishment as "worth it". LO has no regrets.
👀
LO said LO challenged the boy, and said Nazis were mass killers in ways too horrible to even explain and if the boy wants to be a Nazi he's an idiot.
The boy did not repent.
LO flashed angry and then slapped him and stamped on him.
The boy appears to have been treated with a cold compress. LO's teacher was very unhappy with LO for hitting but didn't defend being a Nazi (because that's obviously indefensible), however you aren't allowed to do that, so LO served time... (In time out).
Can't sleep. Also my child RN isn't sleeping, which means I must be watchful.
RN is a KS2 child (older end of primary school) who has entirely crumbled during this pandemic.
I still support lockdown.
Here's why the Kids Mental Health argument against lockdown is nonsense:
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First, let's establish I know what I am talking about.
RN stands for Roadside Naughtiest because prior to Covid happening, RN was happy, fun, lively, kind, brave, thoughtful, popular and always up to something (not always within the rules).
Cheeky RN was a joy to know.
2/
Lockdown happened and my baby fell apart. Really, really fell apart. The difference was night and day.
It turns out RN may have ADHD always, but a solid routine & cosy space within the van we lived in, and vast amounts of outdoor excercise every single day, managed it well.
3/
I have heard of many a senseless, spiteful, pointless act of downright scumbaggery, but today's revelation takes the fucking cake - literally. Takes ALL the food right off the tables of people who have actual nothing!
SOMEONE IS SYSTEMICALLY TARGETING @HumansMCR FOODBANK
1/
First off here's a news story. But it's actually fucking WORSE than it even looks here.
It's actually happened THREE times in succession now, the first day some CCTV went up that could have helped protect them, the bastards smashed that too.
Reflecting on it, some things spring out for me, so I thought I would do what I do, and make a little thread about it...
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Apparently, almost no one in the media even went to a normal state school, let alone has personal experience of deprivation. That lack of experience is a massive factor in how the narrative is shaped. They honestly, truly, can not and do not understand us, or even know us.
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The situation in the nation's corporate boardrooms and in the corridors of power aren't much different. Exceptions of course exist, but those individuals seem to be rarities.
Fair to say those groups don't know us either and for the most part they aren't trying to.
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So if you missed it last night, let me fill you in.
It transpires that even long since Chartwells knew, beyond doubt, that this was their "hamper", and even after they started "apologising" to me in private, they cast doubt on my integrity where they thought I wouldn't see.
1/
Well of course I did see, didn't I.
So to be abundantly clear:
1. I have written proof it was a TEN day parcel. @BylineTimes published it. Other outlets saw it for due diligence.
2. It was presented in a basic, not very strong, white carrier bag.
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3. Chartwells knew that it was their parcel and that the photo was entirely accurate. Chartwells knew my school early last week and they were able to confirm the incident through their own staffing chains. How do I know? They told me.
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