Thread by @nadinevdVelde

THREAD ON Louise Mensch and #TeamPatriot's massive blocklist. Enemies Lists have long been used as a tool to silence and intimidate dissenters.

2/ I am being blocked by #TeamPatriot & Louise Mensch.
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3/ Louise Mensch promoted the blocking of 100Ks of accounts who disagree or question her. Lists have long been used as a means of intimidation. You know who uses lists as a form of intimidation of against voices of dissension? Putin!
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Louise Mensch and #TeamPatriot use their blocklist to divide the #resistance
None of the core Mensch coterie has spoken out against the silencing of 100Ks of accts.
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Louise Mensch and #TeamPatriot created a "signal" instigated by Louise Mensch to tag accounts to be added to there massive Blacklist. These are voices who have exposed her disinformation and false conspiracies
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6/ Louise Mensch and #TeamPatriot enlisted this account to deliberately threaten and intimidate people by tagging tweets with the signal *Thump*

7/ You know who else compiles "Enemies lists" like Louise Mensch and #TeamPatriot? Trump and Bannon. It is a favorite tool of authoritarian governments.

8/ Louise Mensch and #TeamPatriot have compiled an Enemies list of 100Ks of #Resistance people to "purge" their voices. Stalin made purge lists of those who openly opposed him. Louise has the same motivation-- to remove dissenters. #BlockedByChiefCovfefe

9/ Translation: "Jews forbidden" This is what the making of lists looked like for my family under Nazi Occupation. Drafting Enemies Lists to silence people requires but a few mouse clicks by Louise Mensch & #TeamPatriot.
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10/ My Oma & Opa Rebekah & Hyman owned a factory. Much of their business was based in Germany. By 1934 Jews & "politically unreliable" civil servants and employees in Germany were to be excluded from state service

11/ My father Rene Solomon van der Velde was born in 1935. By 1935, in Germany, Jews were completely disenfranchised. The Nuremberg Laws of '35 brought about swift & definitive segregation.

12/ My grandparents in an attempt to protect my father from being placed on a list and to shield him from Nazi persecution made a radical and profound choice. They chose not to circumcise Rene. For Jews, ritual circumcision, is a symbol of their partnership with G‑d.

13/ When Solomon van der Kaars, my grandmother's father found out, he was so outraged that unbeknownst to my grandparents and against their wishes, he took my Dad to the Mohel to have him circumcised, thus "marking" my Dad.

14/ We should be alarmed when Mensch & #TeamPatriot "tags" & segregates a blocklist with 100Ks of names that are #resistance voices. For what purpose? To silence dissenters? To propagate disinformation among her followers? To sway 2018 elections towards her conservative agenda?

15/ Louise Mensch despises the #Resistance and the ideals it stands for. She has repeatedly falsely accused the ENTIRE resistance of being Russian Intelligence Services. #BlockedByChiefCovfefe

16/ Louise Mensch has admitted she is not #Resistance. Her political agenda is in line with the current extreme Right Xenophobic movement. Her aim is poison our lines of communications. #TeamPatriot's blocklist is meant to intimidate, divide and silence us. Don't let them.