• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Remember, if your organization is big enough to organize a general strike, the feds are there and watching. Watch your back

    recall that the FBI infiltrated the civil rights movement and more even before we had a police state empowered by the Patriot Act surveillance and AI data collection.

    I have zero proof, but I suspect that they are actively disrupting all attempts at organization. This is based on the history of CIA and FBI; we never know what they are doing currently, we only know a tiny bit of what they have done in the past.

    Maybe I’m paranoid.

      • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        What was that one phrase again? Something like “there are two kinds of conspiracy theories: antisemitic woo and declassified CIA documents”

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      13 days ago

      One of the organizers of Standing Rock was framed and turned in by their partner of like 3± years, iirc. The fbi offered them ~$2000 and so they planted a gun in their partners belongings before a camp raid.

      Remember kids, anyone can become a tool of the state if put in the right position

    • menas@lemmy.wtf
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      13 days ago

      No you’re not paranoid. However, the point of surveillance is not to repress, but to make us afraid to act (panopticon and stuff). Not everything could be done through organization; but not system shift could be done without. A strong solidarity network is something that could people to act by other mean, help them to get inform on industries by people being exploited by those industries. And of course building international solidarity.

      Depending of your country or your affinities, you could even join an union under a pseudonyme