Thread by @gwensnyderPHL

Truly wild how many lies and inaccuracies Andy Ngo can cram into three little paragraphs.

Let's count them (thread):

1) I'm not a member of Philadelphia Antifa.

I'm an antifascist, and they're lovely people in my experience.

But yeah, no, the fact that some Sputh Philly racist once told a radio host I was part of some secret Barack Obama Antifa plot is, um. Not actually fact, lol.

2) I'm not a fat rights activist.

Never have been, have never called myself that.

It's good, liberatory work, but it isn't work I do.

This is just Andy calling me fat and then presenting it as journalism.

Again, lying.

3) This is a major one: I've never said honking at the convoy was a Hitler reference.

Trucks have horns, honking happens, lol.

What I *did* say was that the #honkhonk hashtag predates the convoy and has long been used online to signal Nazi sympathies, since 2018 at least.

That's not something I just thought up now, and I'm not the only one who has documented it (thoroughly) over the years.

Anyone who looks at far right spaces knows the Honkler/#honkhonk meme.

It doesn't originate with the convoy. That's just a fact.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/clown-pe…

4) Not a lie or very important, just further proof of laziness: he couldn't even bother to get the name of my college right, e en after his own followers pointed out his error. It's Swarthmore, not Swathmore.

5) "Self-proclaimed expert" I guess this is very technically true, in that if you asked me directly, I would call myself an expert.

But my work has been published in Bitch and the Information, and my research has been cited everywhere from The Guardian to The Washington Post.

In other words, a whole lot of people, including journalists at respectable national and international outlets, have declared me an expert.

It's not just me going around wearing a "Very Important Nazi Expert" tin foil hat and yelling to clouds about how I know things.

6) I never bothered to tell people to report Andy.

That's a lie.

Twitter lets Andy get away with pretty much anything on here.

I *did* tell someone who asked that I wouldn't mind them reporting this sort of content from Andy's followers my mentions, but that was it.

7) Finally-- and this isn't a lie, just funny-- it's true that I sometimes ask folks to consider donating to my Patreon if they like my work, since I put a lot of it on here for free.

I make a little over $408 from it a month, not exactly a fortune.

ANYWAY!

Does anyone happen to remember how Andy got famous?

Dude got splashed with a milkshake and said it caused him literal brain damage, lmfao.

He raised $194 THOUSAND dollars off that, even though his "concrete milkshake" bs was later shown to be a lie, too.

In other words, Andy Ngo using the platform he uses to run his grift to call me a grifter is... pretty effin' rich, lol.

In summary: Andy isn't a journalist, never has been.

He's a propagandic liar who grifts off the hope that his followers are naive enough to take his made-up nonsense at face value (and/or use it as an excuse to troll his targets).

If you believe his stories, you aren't a freethinker. You're not even on his team.

You're just one of his marks.