Twitter is your enemy.  If Twitter has decided that you are a monster, then you will be declared a monster.  Years of hard work and dedication will be ignored if the right person declares that you are miserable trash.  Your “friends” will deny you.  You will be ratio’d, de-platformed, and cancelled.

Maybe.

This system of discrediting works very well and it works every time it is tried.  I was not the first, and I will not be the last.  However, there is a greater system that you might not see unless you are in the hot seat.  It is actually very easy to completely negate the entire mob.  It works best if you have help.  Still, even if you are the only one, it only takes one to start the dominoes falling.  BE THE ONE!

Imagine that one of your friends has just been declared a Nazi, bigot, homophobe, white supremacist, or a sympathizer or an apologist.  The bell tolls.  Something wicked this way comes and their days are numbered.  So, you do what everyone else will do.  You escape the blast zone as quickly as possible to prevent yourself from becoming collateral damage.  This is how it normally works.

But, what if you did NOT do that?  What if you did the exact opposite?  What if you said, “I do not care what you say about my friend.  I know this person is not the monster you claim them to be.  They are still my friend!”  You would get mobbed, immediately.  That is the tactic.  Isolate a target, mob the individual, and mob any ONE who stands to defend them.  But, if you and your friends all stand up to be counted when just one of you is mobbed, that is much harder to defeat.  When a group stands together, it is almost impossible to mob a group.  This is especially true, because when you stand with just one friend, you are given strength and encouragement.  It is easy to stand with at least one person who will stand with you.  You feed each other.  A group who stands undivided is bullet proof.  You become invincible.

If you openly state your support of your friend in spite of the mob, you are wielding a power that the mob cannot stop.  If you and all of your friends stand up, you will win!  The more of you who stand, the greater the effect.  For every one of you who adds their voice to the resistance, the impact is increased 10 fold.

This is scary, but also very easy.  There is almost nothing easier than posting a reply to a disparaging remark on Twitter.  All you have to do, to save your friend, is add your comment to say, “I am still your friend.”  Do that in front of everyone!  Others will join you.  The bravest friend is the one who goes first.  The best friends are all of the ones who wish they were the one who went first.  Look for ANY opportunity to openly state your support for a friend.  Even if the smallest accusation is posted against your friend, post the reply, “I am still your friend”, and tag them in it.  Be the first one!  Be THAT friend.  If you stand with your friends when they need it, they will stand with you.

You must stand by your friends, especially when your friend is legitimately wrong.  When you are wrong, and your friend says, “You are still my friend”, there is a redeeming power in those words.  It makes you WANT to be different!  It makes you WANT to fix your mistake!  It makes you WANT to admit your wrongs!  The gratitude of being openly supported has the power to change stubborn hearts.  There are few powers in the universe this great.

When you openly support a friend, even a friend who is wrong, you are at once giving them strength, and giving them a path to redemption.  There is nothing like the power of open support when you need it the most.  When you are being mobbed by spite, you need it the most.  When you can not see where you are wrong, YOU NEED IT THE MOST!

Just in case you are wondering, I want to be very clear about something.  DO NOT SAVE ME!  I am doing VERY well.  I do not need saving, and I am not asking anyone to put themselves on the line for me.  I have a lot of good friends who are supporting me behind the scenes and I LOVE where all of this is going.  I did not know this would happen to me.  I could not have predicted how it would effect me.  There are mysteries that lie beyond the catastrophe, but now that I am here, I am grateful to God for being wise enough to bring me here.  I know it sounds weird, but I have opportunities now that I never had before.

If one of your friends is currently being ratio’d by Twitter.  Go post your reply, “I am still your friend!”  Go do it now!  Be the first one!  Take the heat.  Be the commodity that you crave the most.

~Sisyphus