ABigGuy4U
3d ago
I’ve even seen people here obtusely sticking to that line against all evidence as recently as a few months ago.
The most disheartening revelation was that Epstein was in communication with, and possibly funded, the hacker known only as “4Chan”
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
I wouldn’t chalk it up entirely to Don Lemon being dumb. Like many other leftward organizations and people, he got used to the government, the media, big tech, the legal system and federal law enforcement all simultaneously running interference for him. There are tactics which are very effective in a permissive threat environment like that, but will quickly bite you in the ass in a less permissive one. If he had done something similar to this in 2014, he may genuinely have come out on the other end being made to look like a hero. Or at worst, looking like a jackass with no other actual consequences.
No you don’t understand, the snack-table level of organization basically is special forces-tier guerilla tactics compared to what conservatives are working with. Hell, it’s practically black magic cast by wizards. Conservative/right wing organization is a joke. The actual official Republican parties of most states aren’t nearly as organized as this one signal group chat. You’re lucky to have a monthly dinner club that a few people bother to show up to. It’s completely feckless.
And this isn’t a “getting ratfucked by feds” problem. I’m not talking about paramilitaries here. Even the lamest of the lamestream conservatives are completely allergic to any kind of organization. That’s what happens when you spend forty years dismissing organizing as something only communists do. The constant conservative sneering about Barack Obama being a Community Organzier as if that’s some kind of made up job was a telling red flag.
And as for right wing paramilitaries, they don’t exist. I’ve heard people say “well they don’t want to get ratfucked by feds so they keep a low profile”. Bullshit, they just don’t exist. Military veterans have their heads wedged so far up their own asses all they care about is their VA benefits and alcoholism. Further right wing radicals just bitch online. There’s no there there. The only ratfucking by glowies going on is the operation convincing you that these groups exist at all, not infiltrating and breaking them up.
IIRC Harold Ramis once said in an interview that realistically, Bill Murray would have spent a few hundred years just getting up every morning and murdering the whole town, but that it wouldn’t have fit the tone of the film.
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