Raddle is 7 years old today, December 15th! To celebrate, here's a screenshot I took of f/lobby on Raddle's opening day back in 2016!
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As a strategy, state actors often create misdirection to discredit people who question their ops and false flag operations and maintain plausible deniability.

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    In that top-level post the OP says it's a photoshop they made. In the subtext link, I like that Hexbear is pretty resilient against the tactics mentioned. We consistently sniff out wreckers/adventurists/judas goats. When one reveals themselves, there's no community effort to rally behind them.

    • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      I mean if someone gets banned as a wrecker and they weren't actually trying to be one, they can just make a new account and be less terrible. If they're capable of doing so.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        There was this beautiful moment where FBI agents complained that it was hard to infiltrate anarchist groups because they couldn't bribe anyone and had to read theory. I think it's that latter part that makes coming back near-impossible for actual wreckers. If it's just someone with one bad opinion they can correct that, but even if someone hasn't actually read theory there's a bar for having that worldview. Then within that bar there's an overton window of what a revolutionary socialist would say and what a LARPer would say and it's ontologically clouded by their actual worldview. There have been somewhat successful splits like we had over veganism, but I don't think we would ever have the problems that a community like /r/antiwork has the same way /r/chapotraphouse didn't. Our whole subculture is bullying bullies and bullshitters.

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          Got a link for those FBI complainers? I wish to see fedposting bitching about reading theory