Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

(1) This thread includes some of my previous work on the far right's concept of #Arkancide and it's relation to the Qanon mass delusion phenomenon, Epstein, McAfee, and the ongoing consequences of not having a #Jan6Commission.

There's a lot to unpack.

https://twitter.com/FreedomFriesInc/status/1403989803247431685

(2) Even before Epstein's death on August 10, 2019, it was common for those who saw #Arkancide under every rock to post online messages like this one:

(3) People started adding #EDKH to their tweets for "Epstein didn't kill himself."

Yes, I did too. I don't delete tweets from my time as a Trump supporter. That's cowardly. I will instead answer good faith questions about it from anyone.

We're all allowed to change our mind.

(4) Lately I've been researching for a series of upcoming Twitter threads about Epstein's ex girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, and the UK's Prince Andrew. Epstein's death, regardless of cause, looms large over these two especially, but also many other people.

(5) I should've said above that I'm writing this thread because John McAfee was reportedly found dead in a Spanish prison after he allegedly believed his extradition to the US was imminent.

Tweets like this one are so commonplace that IMO they don't need to be taken seriously.

(6) Two others who fear US extradition are Julian Assange and Kim Dotcom.

Assange could have avoided all this had he just showed up in a UK court years ago. Accordingly, his persecution by the UK and the US is imaginary. He chose to abandon his young children. Deadbeat dad.

(7) Kim Dotcom still resides in NZ, at his bail address, just down the road from me as it happens. He has been appealing his US extradition case since 2012.

It must have cost an absolute fortune by now. But I guess he has access to plenty of money.

(8) Every country has a right to seek the extradition of persons accused of crime. The US DOJ knows it can take years, even decades, but they don't give up.

Some countries, eg France, have a long record of harboring fugitives. Like the Unicorn Killer:

https://twitter.com/FreedomFriesInc/status/987980212498456580

(9) I make this point bc many seem to buy in to the complaints of people like Assange, forgetting for a moment that the US DOJ is trying to fulfil its duty to enforce the law and counter threats to public safety. On balance, they're pretty good at it:

https://twitter.com/FreedomFriesInc/status/1402445379442933760

(10) The DOJ, and it's department that is the FBI, are disliked by both the far right Trump movement, and by some parts of the left.

The left are increasingly concerned that all involved in 1/6 will not be investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

(11) The far right Trump movement has no trust or confidence in the DOJ and FBI. The thing is, everyone outside the far right Trump movement has no trust or confidence in that movement.

The US cannot recover and rebuild unless trust and confidence in institutions is restored.

(12) Countries that claim to be democratic in nature, ie the US, rely on having a sufficient level of public trust and confidence in institutions.

A lot of folk think institutions are government agencies.

It's a wider concept, like the rule of law, fee speech etc.

(13) There always has been and always will be a small minority of Americans without sufficient* trust and confidence in the country's institutions.

For example, trade unionist Eugene Debs won 6% of the 1912 Presidential Election vote as the Socialist Party of America candidate.

(14) *My point in the above tweet is that in 1912, 918k Americans voted for Eugene Debs, despite any reasonable observer knowing it would have no effect on the outcome.

That year, two GOP candidates split the vote, allowing Woodrow Wilson to win.

2024 will be very similar.

(15) People take their lack of trust & confidence in institutions very seriously & very personally, regardless of where they sit on the left-right spectrum.

Those who object even to the use of the left-right spectrum as a concept can be found in this group.

They are purists.

(16) I am not a purist. I used to be, when I believed in the paramountcy of political ideology.

For me, 1/6 turned everything on it's head. In terms of political ideology vs pragmatism.

A line was crossed. No matter how hard they try, the event cannot be erased.

(17) The ignorant among us who only read 1-2 tweets of mine before commenting, might think that I bring 1/6 into every thread & am obsessed with it.

Well, I bring it up so much because it is relevant to almost every topic I write about on Twitter.

And bc we must never forget.

(18) Perennial far right MAGA conspiracy theorist claims about the suicide or homicide of public figures absolutely are relevant to the subject of 1/6.

Trump encouraged, enabled, and (still) condones the riot at the seat of the federal government that injured >138 LEOs.

(19) The many public figures associated with the MAGA movement who continue to lie about 1/6 and the 2020 presidential election result are part of why there is a legitimate and ongoing threat to public safety across the USA.

https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1407810802082537472

(20) And now I will start a separate thread to discuss the connection between 1/6 lies and the far right MAGA response to Biden's comments today on 2A.

https://twitter.com/TrumpsAlert/status/1407866141238870023

(21) I'm seeing tweets with images like below, & the # #JohnMcAfeeDidntKillHimself & I guess the short form will be #MDKH.

The same people seem to think Edward Snowden is a freedom fighter. I think Putin's Russia will always look after him. He'll be fine. Unlike Alexei Navalny.