• WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Also I’m a bit sad that they just scrape our shit and put it through an algorithm. I sort of wish we had (more) FBI wreckers and some schmuck who has to go through my posts to see the brilliance that I bring to this place

    • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I’m sure a couple of the more controversial early posters were feds sent to prevent co-ordination during the last wave of radicalism, not out of fedjacketing anyone specific (because most bad takes are just honestly bad takes) but purely on statistical chance.

      I do want to give a shout out to our intelligence agency friends. who no doubt have to read a lot more theory than most of us do! Wonder how many get radicalised.

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        Wonder how many get radicalised.

        One of the biggest problems they had with spying on Cuba was that their agents would sympathise and radicalise.

      • ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, anyone who’s done work lurking on actual extremist forums (antifascist doxxing, monitoring harassment campaigns, etc) knows to keep their mouth shut lest they poke the hornets’ nest. This place worries me a lot less than fash sites in terms of someone swatting my house but still.