The Cautionary Tale of MattAAW, A Thread

Most of you will be familiar with the 𝕏 user MattAAW, as he was a seemingly rock solid Ron DeSantis supporter. Yesterday, he shocked me and everyone else by tweeting out that he would be voting for Donald Trump in November because of the border, which was a complete 180 from where he had been. I wanted to share my thoughts on what happened, as I had a unique behind-the-scenes view. I'm also at least partially responsible for this. 🙃

This is not meant to pile on Matt. He's receiving a lot of (well deserved) criticism for his flip, but I really want to look at the bigger picture. But before I get to that, I want to describe what happened because what happened is absolutely mind-blowing! Please read to the end and share! (1/11) I met Matt last fall, shortly after I had achieved monetization. He was a really nice guy with a few hundred followers, and I sensed he had a good heart, so I really wanted to boost his content. I shared with him some techniques that I used to be able to grow my account. For those of you that don't know, in order to monetize your account, you need to have 5,000,000 impressions during a 90 day period. It's a big lift, especially if you don't have a lot of followers. (2/11)

As a reformed presuppositionalist, I was very excited to read "The Faithful Apologist" by @ScottOliphint. I just finished it today, and overall I found it very encouraging, with one massive and unfortunate caveat. I will address that caveat here in this thread. (1/11) In Chapter 8, @ScottOliphint is describing creation, wherein God commands Adam and Eve to fill the earth and subdue it. In order to offer a modern example of subduing, Oliphint mentions life-saving mRNA vaccines that were developed to stop a novel coronavirus. (2/11)