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Ukraine supporting bullies exposed
A Twitter user shared information on the North Atlantic Fellas Organization, a pro-Ukraine group specializing in harassment on Twitter.
The group called North American Fellas Organization (NAFO) rears its ugly head yet again. In case readers have forgotten, CNAV first saw them in March, after Dom Lucre, Breaker of Narratives, previewed this thread. Mr. Lucre was talking directly about Ukraine and what a broken, corrupt society it actually is. But NAFO – a group that practices harassment to further Ukraine’s cause on Twitter and elsewhere – revealed itself in reaction. Yesterday another user decided to expose them directly for what they are, in far greater detail than Mr. Lucre showed.
State of the war in Ukraine
As most readers might have heard, Ukraine launched its vaunted counteroffensive largely against territory now under Russian control. They launched it on June 6, 2023 – the 79th anniversary of Operation Overlord (“D-Day”) in Normandy. Despite all the hype, Russian forces seem to have stopped Ukrainian forces cold. WarClandestine has the details:
Many have probably forgotten that Ukraine officials have been bribing American officials for years. These included then-Vice-President Joseph R. Biden and his son Hunter. This has been the subject of several stories of FBI misconduct in the past weeks. Now Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) reveals that the FBI has, in its possession, hard evidence that each man took a bribe of $5 million to affect materially an investigation into a gas company called Burisma and some of its members.
Rep. Greene told Jack Posobiec how she read the relevant document in a secure reading room and literally memorized it. She did it by taking written notes – which, although she had to leave them behind, still helped her remember. Your editor will vouch for that as an invaluable study technique, which he used often in his schooling. So we can well believe she has a good memory. But the most important revelation is not that then-Vice-President Biden and son took bribes, but that Ukraine paid them.
The thread
The thread comes from a user calling himself Dr. Eoin Lenihan. He lists The Federalist, The Daily Caller, Quillette, and The Post Millennial as outlets to which he contributes. When he dropped the thread yesterday, he closed it to comments – because he didn’t want NAFO to harass anyone who might comment on his thread.
Here it is:
The reaction cannot take the form of replies, because Dr. Lenihan blocked those. But anyone can quote the anchor tweet, and at time of writing, ten users had. One user addressed Elon Musk directly and asked whether NAFO’s activities constituted targeted harassment. That’s one part of the Twitter Rules that remains in force.
One user, whose name does not bear mentioning, offered a sarcastic quote. The rest praised Dr. Lenihan’s efforts.
The chief value in this thread lies in identifying yet another group at least allied with Ukraine. And also exposing some of this group’s most active members, and their methods. Those methods are especially relevant to Twitter users, because they operate as classic schoolyard or classroom teases. Anyone who has gone to grade school in America knows the drill. Pick a fight with your target, get a rise out of him, then tattle on him. Satan himself uses similar methods, though the chief “deadly sin” NAFO operatives provoke is wrath, not lust.
Advice
If any of these people show up in your thread, take no action yourself. Do not engage. If the feed gets too thick, block them. No user can contribute to the feed of another user who blocks him.
By now Elon Musk knows about them. Dr. Lenihan mentioned him in his thread, as did at least one person quote-tweeting the anchor tweet in reaction. These people got away with their activities for so long because Trust and Safety are simpatico with them. Ukraine is the darling of the World Economic Forum – or at least of the shadow council that seems to pull everyone’s strings. Accordingly, Trust and Safety left them alone, since they go back to Agrawal’s day.
In sum, Dr. Lenihan has done a valuable service, not only for Twitter users but arguably for Twitter itself. And definitely for anyone genuinely interested in knowing who has the right of the Russia-Ukraine War.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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