Hello, friends.
As some of you may know, the Far-Right Twitter has viciously banned me, and consequently I am now posting on the Hard-Right Parler instead. Here’s my first selection of Parleys from there, covering the period 18th-28th August, which I hope you will enjoy.
Tuesday 18th August
Wednesday 19th August
Tuesday 25th August
Wednesday 26th August
Thursday 28th August
Friday 28th August
Forty-nine months ago, in July 2016, I tentatively opened a Twitter account, without really having a clue as to what to expect. Under its @supportourlefty handle, it quickly gained a small handful (around 30) of followers – mostly people who already knew me for my irreverent comments on certain websites, notably the Guardian’s ironically-titled ‘Comment Is Free’ site, as well as the Guido Fawkes and Going Postal websites.
It took me quite a while to get to grips with Twitter, partly because, as a naturally verbose writer, I found its (then) 140-character limit very restrictive. Things became a great deal easier for me in late 2017, when the limit was doubled to 280 characters, where it has remained ever since.
Rather to my surprise – and, I have to confess, pleasure – my account became increasingly popular, and by the time it was suspended eight days ago, it had garnered around 24,600 followers. I had never dreamt such a thing would be possible, as I’d originally assumed that my particular style of largely irreverent comments (mostly at the expense of the Left) would be very much a ‘niche’ thing, accruing a few hundred followers at most.
Too popular?
Perhaps it would have been best if my original assumption had been correct, as I fear that it was my account’s popularity that did for it in the end. It’s fair to say that most Leftists absolutely loathed it, because for them it was like one of those distorting mirrors that used to be popular in funfairs: peering into it, they recoiled from the grotesque spectacle that confronted them, which they then realised to their horror was actually them. (Yes, Leftists: that vain, silly, posturing, virtue-signalling hypocrite with the closed-minded, humourless, totalitarian mindset is you. Not a great look, is it?)
Unfortunately, over the past 4 years, the Left has only got worse – hard though that may be to believe – and parody has become correspondingly more difficult. And as a result of the Left’s increasing appetite for totalitarianism, any alternative viewpoint that might undermine it is increasingly likely to be suppressed.
Twitter’s ‘strategy’ for accounts they dislike
Which – to cut a very long story short – is where my account comes in. It was probably quite tricky for Twitter to know how to eliminate it. There were no actual tweets they could pinpoint, especially as most of my tweets merely repeated Left-wing mantras (albeit with my trademark ‘twist’), but they knew it was an account that undermined the Left-wing ‘narrative’ and so had to go. Unfortunately for them, I never employ abuse, threatening language or ‘hate’ – how ironical that such things are far more characteristic of the Left than the Right – so they instead made the accusation of ‘Platform manipulation and spam’. A clever move, that, because the phrase is virtually bereft of meaning, and although despite repeated requests from me to Twitter to provide any examples – even one – of how I am guilty of this charge, the only ‘answer’ has been a deafening silence.
And the reason for there being no answer? Why, of course, because Twitter have no answer. It’s pretty obvious now what their tactic is: leave the account in suspension until the fuss (including from me) has died down, and then – probably in just a few weeks’ time, maybe even sooner – delete the account permanently.
So, to summarise: an account that has never previously been ‘limited’ or ‘restricted’ – let alone suspended – will soon be ‘disappeared’ for no reason other than that Twitter doesn’t like it. Rather worrying, don’t you think?
Don’t fool yourselves, by the way, that this is by any manner of means the end of the story. Mine is just a handful of ‘largish accounts by unknown people’ (Jarvis Dupont and Guy Verhoftwat being other current examples) being suspended. Once we’re safely out of the way, Twitter will increasingly turn its attention – aided by the vast army of offence-seeking, grievance-mongering Leftist accounts that spend so much of their sad, empty lives reporting examples of ‘wrongthink’ – to smaller accounts that they dislike, even if such accounts are (like mine) entirely innocent of any wrongdoing. And what will Twitter’s excuse for suspending them be? You’ve guessed it – ‘Platform manipulation and spam’.
Publisher or platform?
Of course, in the long-run, this could present Twitter with some major problems. If Twitter can delete accounts simply because they dislike certain points of view, then arguably Twitter is no longer a ‘platform’ but a ‘publisher’ and thus responsible for all content. Which, given how much Leftist commentary is antisemitic, genuinely hateful and in many cases actually inciting violence, could turn out to be highly awkward. But then, Leftists never think ahead about the consequences of their behaviour, and it would probably be unfair to expect Twitter to be an exception to this cast-iron rule.
My future
As for me, unless by some miracle Twitter reverses its decision, I have no plans to participate there again. Setting up a new account has no attraction for me, as it would only be a matter of time before it was deleted again, along with (I fear) the accounts of many of my friends and followers there. I’d prefer to concentrate my efforts where they are less likely to be censored, whether in blogs like this or on Parler which – despite its appalling user interface – actually upholds free speech.
Sorry to have rambled on for so long – I did say I was naturally verbose! – but hopefully this piece will be of at least some interest to my friends and followers. Finally, I’d like to thank everyone for their kind messages of support to me and entreaties to Twitter to reinstate me, even if the latter appear, sadly, to have fallen on deaf ears.
Anyway, I hope to keep in touch with many of you, one way or another … and so, at least for the time being, I shall simply say (no doubt to the relief of most if not all of you!) …
That’s all, folks!
Hello, friends.
And a very warm welcome to you all for my latest selection of recent tweets. As ever, my thanks to everyone whose tweets I’ve mentioned, and to all who’ve contributed to the threads, which can easily be viewed by dint of clicking on the tweet in question!
Sunday 9th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292472689664425985?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292485225356943363?s=20
Monday 10th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292721955733471232?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292731985832611840?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292809829325692933?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292820685757329409?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292832881044332545?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292850108380450824?s=20
Tuesday 11th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293090689211928576?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293143572745723904?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293179189269471235?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293211881683943432?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293217646721327107?s=20
Wednesday 12th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293437485394153479?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293449794107711488?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293456582081155074?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293474005962366976?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293501879868100608?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293551076705173505?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293569227358642178?s=20
Thursday 13th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293791297829048320?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293812560677019648?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1293828607262031872?s=20
Friday 14th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1294173930689826816?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1294259594739539979?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1294268439603941382?s=20
Hello, friends.
And a very warm welcome to you all for my latest selection of recent tweets. As ever, my thanks to everyone whose tweets I’ve mentioned, and to all who’ve contributed to the threads, which can easily be viewed by dint of clicking on the tweet in question!
Monday 3rd August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290239580528971776?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290271696067289089?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290306620988125184?s=20
Tuesday 4th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290544715155345408?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290573302759657474?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290641488951619598?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290666320254697476?s=20
Wednesday 5th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290909170322087941?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290922159012012037?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290936282579972096?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291005685392646145?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291034532171386881?s=20
Thursday 6th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291273253764374528?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291296137513664513?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291400656394293254?s=20
Friday 7th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291632889117978624?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291645622534254594?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291661916046327810?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291686502448205824?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291747866269159425?s=20
Saturday 8th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1291991076065222657?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292008921264279552?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292030005267050497?s=20
Sunday 9th August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292383139042668544?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292450578019373058?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1292454403748888576?s=20
Hello, friends.
And a very warm welcome to you all for my latest selection of recent tweets. As ever, my thanks to everyone whose tweets I’ve mentioned, and to all who’ve contributed to the threads, which can easily be viewed by dint of clicking on the tweet in question!
Wednesday 29th July
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288354522495094784?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288375225990688768?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288385503973257218?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288407096736841731?s=20
Thursday 30th July
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288755073456246784?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288767714471940096?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288788958424571904?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288828476456423425?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288850760017612801?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1288862662529556481?s=20
Friday 31st July
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289098880232099841?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289126386716770306?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289139824339935233?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289156383556767744?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289193095884677120?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289213578415706112?s=20
Saturday 1st August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289461060324425728?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289476250466041856?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289492623254724610?s=20
Sunday 2nd August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289826573697392640?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289842248822095872?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289865266805891074?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289929496863236099?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1289942944267423744?s=20
Monday 3rd August
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290193301316894726?s=20
https://twitter.com/SupportOurLefty/status/1290213714482753537?s=20
Totally unconditional support for Our Lefty, i.e. Me, friends.
SupportOurLefty 