• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      7 days ago

      People say that a lot, but it's not really true. The state will make some encroachment hear or there periodically, but it's nothing like the immediate move to crush dissent and organizing that we see when we give them an excuse. Probably the closest thing to a real argument is that "well, they'll generate that excuse with agent provocateurs or whatever" to which I say "the correct response is to stop agent provocateurs, not do their work for them". There's a reason that the feds have a long history of trying to turn leftist activists (among others) into terrorists, and it's because terrorism is useful to the state.

      • newmou [he/him]
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        6 days ago

        The excuse “not being given” is indicative of the general lack of leftist action; when that happens, repression will follow in tow

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          6 days ago

          I agree, so let's make sure that we are ready for it by developing leftist organization and that what the leftist action accomplishes is worth the blowback

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          7 days ago

          I was explicitly referring to adventurists

          I think traditional adventurist actions like that tend to just be used as a pretext for cracking down on the left