Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

Gotta laugh, my tweet generated the following reply from a maga account:

"Ukraine flag in bio"

Ad hominem/genetic fallacy is all they have. They deflect by targeting the player not the ball. Because playing the ball is too hard for them. It requires honesty & courage.

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https://twitter.com/FreedomFriesInc/status/1597822266930524161

I recognize this form of gaslighting because I learned it from others and even used it, during my time* in Cult 45. (* Ended TWO years ago, OK?)

Any sign that someone is outside the cult is used as a way to disregard whatever the person says.

I proudly attach 🇺🇦 to my a/c...

And I will keep the Ukraini flag on my account for as long as it takes. Full independence, with pre 2014 borders, nothing less will do.

Cult 45ers viscerally hate Ukraine and Ukrainians.

They have to, in order to protect the scaffold of lies they have been fed.

I love Ukraine and Ukrainians. Slava Ukraini.

They are giving their lives every day to the cause of freedom, democracy, and (their AND our) security.

Some are being tortured, before ending up in literal mass graves. That's called genocide.

On every single issue that a Cult 45er could throw at me, I have the facts (or am quickly able to ascertain them.)

Usually I ignore or laugh at them anyway. Not because mass death is funny of course. Just that if we don't laugh, we'd cry.

We have working moral compasses.

I used to spend a lot of time on Twitter, following and writing about politics, esp. that of the US and UK.

Like so many others, I am exhausted. And I don't trust Elon Musk's company to be here much longer anyway.

But I will push back, on days when I can be bothered to.

I think Joe Biden is a truly great POTUS. I'd love it if he campaigned for re-election. But he deserves to enjoy retirement, having already helped literally save American democracy, under his watch at least. And I look forward to the next two Biden years.

#DealWithIt,❄️s. 😁