Hacktivism is back – but don't be fooled, it's often state-backed goons in masks: Military units, government nerds appear to join the fray, with physical infra in sights.

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  [off topic] If you’re at a peaceful demonstration and see someone getting ready to throw a rock at a cop be ready to stop them. Cops love to send in provocateurs so they can have a reason to bust heads.

  Back in the day, Union demonstrators had their own goon squads to make sure things stayed quiet.

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes. Oldest authoritarian trick in the book.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are called agitators, it happened a lot during blm protests, there was prominent right wing influencers MO is to be an agitator at these eventsm

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    • muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When they were protesting here in Akron, some asshole put out giant pallets of bricks all along the protest route. Fuckheads.

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• wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Always had been.

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• _____@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  hired goons?

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  • S13Ni@lemmy.studio ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mfw I have been gooning for free all these years

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