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We know what's next after this: they start using intel to blackmail activists into silence. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by 0xbadcafebee 9mo ago
We know what's next after this: they start using intel to blackmail activists into silence. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) Worked for the SS, worked for the KGB, worked for the FBI, it'll work for ICE.
- SpicyLemonZest 9mo agoBlackmail them with what? It's the ICE agents who are wearing masks, because they know their life will be ruined once people discover who they are and what they've been up to.
- pavel_lishin 9mo ago> Blackmail them with what? With murder or deportation or harassment.
- vpribish 9mo agoso extortion, not blackmail
- SpicyLemonZest 9mo agoSure, but then why do they have to wait? ICE agents who want to threaten legal observers can just do it to their faces - as we've seen, even if they murder legal observers the Trump regime will have their back. I think most don't want to do that, whether out of cowardice or an understanding of what's coming once their leaders are brought to justice.
- bulbar 9mo agoThey are continuously moving the goalpost. They don't know themselves what they are gonna get away with for the time being. But they will iterate themselves to whatever is the line - or don't stop if there isn't any.
- pavel_lishin 9mo agoBut there aren't that many of them. But if you make the populace afraid in advance, that's cheaper than deploying a batch of goons to every major city.
- macintux 9mo agoDig into their past, find indiscretions they can lean on. When you can't win the argument, discredit the messenger.
- halfcat 9mo agoEven if a person has no indiscretions, everyone has a weak point. A significant other, child, friend, job, boss, bank, etc.
- crises-luff-6b 9mo ago[dead]
- tosapple 9mo agoJust wait until they switch us to the deutchemark. Bitcoin doesn't work properly without power or network access extending over days though.