These repeated posts about how “the mod pools is tainted, don’t trust the mods, look they wouldn’t even let me smear shit on the walls on my way out” are designed to do one thing only and that’s spread Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.

The exact same shit happened with hexbear after chapo, and all their struggle sessions, etc etc. The tactic is literally to take small instances of things someone disagrees with and paint them as some kind of egregious systematic failing, engage in bad faith, etc. to attempt to build some kind of critical self sustaining mass of “just asking questions bro” bullshit.

It’s also incredibly common for the tactic to involve trying to appeal to “in” groups by pretending to be part of them and paint the target as part of whatever “out group”. For instance, the way libs use LGBT folk when you don’t vote for Biden, or the way they pretend to be non white on twitter, etc. to lend credibility to their “claims”. On hexbear there was a large amount of (both sides) of every struggle trying to paint the argument as divided along white westerner vs international AES lines, etc.

It was largely organized by fash on KiwiFarms for hexbear (or chapochat), and is probably also being done so now, or by the neolib chucklefucks from reddit.

The key part is not to ever actually “prove a point” it’s to strike while uncertainty is high while ‘changing leadership’ so to speak and take advantage of those elevated tensions to attempt to build a self sustaining argument that isn’t designed to be resolved, just to implode the refugees into smaller and smaller splinter groups and discredit anyone trying to keep the ship afloat.

It’s been used by intelligence agencies in the west against non western and especially communist/anti-imperialist countries so much that IT’S LITERALLY SO MUCH OF A TROPE THAT IT’S THE FUCKING PLOT OF BLACK PANTHER.

Pull your heads out of your asses and don’t have any passionate hot takes about whether “it’s safe here” or whatever until the dust clears and reddit bans us and we sort out this community into one that is fairly immune to outside influence.

Until then form opinions slowly, require more evidence than usual, practice basic privacy and opsec on account creation/try not to carry shit over from reddit, and just focus on shitting on libs for the things we were pre-quarantine. This shit takes time, don’t make yourselves open and vulnerable to marvel movie plot level of creativity “attacks”.

Be smart use your heads and protect yourself and those around you, and log off for a bit if you need to, or focus on something else. Don’t feed the fear until it self sustains.