NEW YORK—Admitting that they had been working for several years without any discernible success, FBI agents confirmed Wednesday that a local left-wing political group was too disorganized to infiltrate. “We’ve had a few guys in there posing as members and trying to manipulate them into committing a...
This is too funny and hits the mark. Groups like ANTIFA and BLM during the protests don't get to be traceable groups exactly because of alphabet agency interest. Behind the Bastards podcast talks about their opsec being deliberately lacking organization of a sort exactly because they knew getting a distributed and traceable hierarchy of leadership would get everyone arrested, the were actively being infiltrated by alphabet agency types. They went out of their way to operate in independent cells of which only a few members had a way to contact another member in a group, etc. so that there was no list of leaders and members to be found. Deliberate disorganization. The Onion nails it again.
This has already happened with things like Tsunami in Catalonia. A totally decentralised movement that the police is still trying to understand 6y later and trying to find a nonexistant leadership. Incredible fun to watch them trying to understand how it worked
I know this is the Onion but the left is inherently anti-authoritarian and advocate of horizontal structure of society with no top-down leadership. Of course we'd be disorganised 😂 Case in point, this and the hodge podge of left wingers in the Spanish Civil War ranging from communist, social democrats, democratic socialists to anarcho-syndicalists. Spanish leftists even attacked each other. The Democrats also don't even get along and this is why Republicans under Trump is gaining more headway.
I'm proud that we're maverick, but this also leads to our characteristic factionalism and thus easier to be disrupted and destroy.
I'm a member of a smallish leftwing party in my own country and having over 20 years professional experience in various industries and several countries it really riles me just how damn incompetent and disorganised they are - I mean, most have their hearts in the right place (even if they easilly succumb to serve their own petty emotional needs, like ego, rather than principles), but damn even how they go about fighting the problems in the country (pretty much 100% reactive) and the organisation and quality of the material in their campaigns is really frustratingly "amateur hour, every hour of they day, every day of the year".
Funnilly enough a leftwing part I was a member of in another country I lived in was also a lot "good intentions but very naive and a bit lost".
PS: Note that all this might be just the bias from never having been a member of a rightwing party. Maybe they're all just as bad and judging by professional standards the typical political party invariably leads to the conclusion they're pretty inept.
IIRC this has actually happened. Cops got little more than a map of who's blocking who, and gave up because there's just... there's just so much reading.
To be fair, the journey of a thousand miles does - or at least should - not begin with a single step, but rather with figuring out which direction to go in.
Gods trying to get my friends to think about pushing politicians leftward on the scale of 4/6/8 years pissed them off. They will only focus efforts on yelling at Biden to drop out as if it will happen or help. They don't care that no world exists where they are remotely happy in nov 2024, that's the only thing they can think about
Hair-splitting circular firing squad.
Inflated with a deluded sense of enlightenment (aka narcissism), lacking a sense of proportion nor any intention of being practical and/or flexible, one cannot get their priorities straight, end up dying on some trivial hill skirmish among themselves, even as a savage, true threat marches into town virtually unopposed, goose-stepping all over main street.
EDIT: Reminds me of that Monty Python scene in "Life Of Brian", The Peoples' Front Of Judea, not to be confused with The Judean Peoples' Front, not to be confused with The Judean Popular Peoples' Front, etc.
The FBI agent added that he was worried the left-wing organization was on to him, as he’d already aroused suspicion by interrupting a meandering discussion of principles with a straightforward plan of action.