it's sketchy out there yall

  • Chloe [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    it'd be fucking cool if we were scary enough to get DoD funds dedicated to taking us down

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Consider:

      • The old sub had 150K+ users and was growing fast.
      • The podcast (there's a podcast??) is the closest thing to a mainstream, openly-Marxist media program.
      • "DoD funds" sounds scary, but in reality all you'd have to do to fuck with the community is take one or two of your least-competent Pentagon toadies, lock them in a room with basic desktop computers, and tell them they can't come out unless they shitpost all day. And that's assuming you don't know how to create a bot or pay the hacker known as 4chan some gamer bux to do it for you.

      This is a country that went to literally comical lengths to do involved, real-world infiltrations of all sorts of much smaller leftist groups. It's preposterous to think that we're not on the radar of (at least) some "fuck with this list of lefty groups" interference program.

        • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          We see some of that, I'm sure, but there are also plenty of folks with good intentions who are still buying U.S. propaganda on the subject, and plenty of more anarchist- or libertarian socialist-minded folks who are at least making good-faith criticisms of China.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I'm sure, they're easier to spot though. Feds are gonna argue in bad faith and use similar language to each other.

  • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    We took a big hit losing the sub, but the community is too resilient to infiltrate. Any community that has both ML, libs and anarchists and people more or less get along is undestroyable, because you couldn't find a group that disagrees about more things on a baseline.

  • akio [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    A little bit of self awareness goes a long way. Unfortunately we collectively couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery which makes the attempts at trying to shut us down seem like a silly waste of time.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Hope so, that would be a waste of money just to troll some libs sharing the same twitter screenshots with each other. I hope they buy lots of drugs with that money too

  • krothotkin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Hope he likes people talking about wanting to fuck bunny cops

  • glk [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Or we're they're paid to provide enough content to keep you us too online to do praxis.