And if I was in charge of combating communists (e.g. had no morals, no restraint, and was ontologically evil while convinced of my own superiority and the necessity of taking any action necessary to destroy a group) I would absolutely manufacture accusations and maybe even charges like this. They’re considered just about the most heinous thing you can be without smoking gun evidence being required by most people to seriously entertain and believe it.

The Julian Assange r*pe accusation for example always smelled like CIA to me to get him to a place where he could be quickly extradited. Not that he couldn’t have done it and maybe he did. It’s just given how often its used as a lie by reactionaries, the Satanic sexual abuse panic complete with false implanted memories of the 80s/90s still fresh in memory… yeah.

Also, shout-out and reminder that the Hexbear site’s original main admin stepped down over some almost certainly fake and concocted by 4chan grooming allegations. If a bunch of basement dwelling reactionaries can do something like that, imagine what intelligence services with the help of police, informants, and of course the complicit bourgeois press can do if they want to.

People do need to be vetted and we shouldn’t just wave away every accusation that has reliable supporting evidence immediately as doing the CIA’s work but well we are entering an era where very convincing if not completely photo-realistic evidence can be manufactured within minutes on demand by generative machine learning networks for dollars a month that are only getting better and better by the day.

The time may come for communists where we must completely disbelieve our eyes and ears when it comes to anything we haven’t personally witnessed with our senses. Where were are presented with a firehose of alleged evils we cannot debunk other than to say we don’t trust the source. When the torrent of falsity meant to tar enemies of empire is not just badly put together stories from the usual suspects but seemingly realistic video of horrendous atrocities all simulated and created out of thin air and which most people in the west will gulp down and which will allow them to harden their warmongering towards whoever they choose. They already manufacture the most abominable things with their lies about the situation in Xin’jiang, how much worse would that be in a world where Zenz could conjure up a video of Chinese police officers committing sexual assault? Murdering children? Both together (Aka the hobby of many an American soldier in the middle east)? They already used AI’s to create fake pictures of arrestees, it’s only a matter of perfecting it so it cannot be debunked by other AI’s as determined reliably to be faked.