Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

Very quick thread on #FreeJimStewartson @jimstewartson

(I added his username in anticipation of a positive result from his appeal below. Also FW @radicalizedpod please & subscribe to their podcast. It's brilliant, as is Jim.)

#NeverForgetJan6
#Jan6Anniversary
#AntiFascist

https://twitter.com/radicalizedpod/status/1478430127893610497

I am sick to death of having to beg Twitter to reinstate accounts that are actually on the good side, ie law abiding people volunteering their time and throwing everything they have at the dire emergency caused by far right fascism throughout the GOP.

#FreeJimStewartson is one of the pro-democracy activists I first started reading on my journey out of the "maga" mvt culminating on 1/6/21, almost one year ago today.

His evidence & arguments are among the best I've seen. H/t @rickyx2001 @gal_suburban @davetroy for pic:

Some of those in the photo are indicted 1/6 rioters and planners. All are under investigation, I'm sure.

Twitter isn't biased against "conservatives."

Twitter is biased against anyone they want to remove, for whatever reason.

All the same tactics I saw used on maga folk for 5-6 years are used on the other side (and on those with no side in the ongoing American crisis.)

I spent 4 yrs trying to get folk on my "side" to patiently wait for DOJ investigations to deliver, after a sufficiently long time period. It was a waste of energy.

As a #spoonie, I do not want to do the same now I'm on the other side. I can't.

Jim's content kept me informed.

For a long time I've been in occasional DM communication with Jim, offering information and encouragement, sprinkled with moments of reciprocal schadenfreudian humor.

I wasn't aware of the attack campaigns against him until now.

I'm so pissed about this latest suspension.

Experienced anti-disinformation activist and @radicalizedpod co-host @jimstewartson will either be reinstated by Twitter or he won't be.

Either way, his work will continue unabated & the thousands of supporters will keep working, even harder, to fully expose American fascists.

Bc if we don't, the most powerful country in the world is likely to fall to fascism.

We have already lost (easily more than) a million innocent souls bc of TFG's gross, intentional, dereliction of duty regarding the pandemic.

On 1/20 these flags represented some of them:

In ~48 hours we will commemorate the first anniversary of America's darkest day in living memory. (I compare the "bigger picture" impact not the body count.)

Arguably, 1/6 was more like Pearl Harbor than more recent events. Because it too could've been prevented.

In the years leading up to Pearl Harbor the isolationism of powerful overt and covert "America First" far right fascists contributed to a policy of appeasement and a lack of national security readiness.

Just like 1/6.

As a result, I lost loved ones here in New Zealand.

That's a whole nother story but essentially, all allied countries contributed to appeasement and non-readiness. The delayed US entry into WWII cost a lot of lives, globally.

History has already started repeating itself. We have to (lawfully) fight fascism again. And we will.

My goal for this week, which I recommend to others, is to stay calm, stay focused on my nearest& dearest, & not to let the bastards grind me down.

The crisis didn't get this bad overnight, so the fightback won't be quick either. Just keep taking one step forward, however small.

The 1st anniversary of 1/6 will be one of the hardest, bc we have little to show for our efforts to date, & the online disinfo war rages on with intensity.

I will say a prayer for the dead & maimed, knowing that in time, we can & will avenge them by restoring democracy.

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