Goodguy
4d ago
Got it. I think I misunderstood what you were saying. The way you phrased it, "foreign agents", made me think that you were implying that the protesters are working alongside of or at least furthering the aims of foreign governments. Which would parallel certain accusations against Trump and his people.
Goodguy
5d ago
Insurrection while aligning with foreign agents is generally considered fine for “deserved it”.
Sounds exactly like what many people would say about the January 6, 2021 rioters.
Goodguy
6d ago
Normal people don't have time to do this shit for 20 years.
There are tens of millions of adults in the United States who are either completely unemployed or work part-time, and are not students.
I think that the Twitter poster's use of military jargon is doing a lot of heavy lifting in his argument. Here is his key claim about what the anti-ICE forces are doing:
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
Let's break it down:
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone.
I don't know how Signal works, so I'll leave this one without comment.
Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases
I mean yeah, this is just specialization of labor, well-understood by humans for many thousands of years. Pretty much anyone who has been on a sports team or has had a job understands the idea of having different members of the organization focus on what they're good at.
24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles.
This can just mean "some people are sitting around watching the feds and telling each other online where the feds are and how many of them there are, and there are enough such people that at least some of them are active at any time of day or night".
Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery.
I don't know what a chat rotation is, but regularly deleting your data is the kind of thing that plenty of tech-savvy people would think to do, and would also recommend to others. And there is usually no shortage of tech-savvy people in large political movements in the US.
Vetting processes for new joiners.
I mean, I should hope so. You don't have to be a military professional to figure out that this is a good idea.
Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups).
Well yeah, of course sympathetic locals are going to help. That kind of goes without saying.
Home-base coordination points.
"People meet at each other's houses to discuss what is happening and plan further steps". I mean, yeah? Of course they do.
Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
Yeah, most of them have cars. It's pretty easy for them to get around.
I noticed this too. Maybe he used good grammar and spelling when writing formal documents to his finance associates and used bad grammar with his friends and cronies. Many people who met him described him as bright and charismatic even back in his younger years before he was famous, so I figure that these emails can't possibly capture the full extent of his communication skills.
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