How, when I was knock, knock, knocking on Heaven's Door, my best pal, my dog, Lamont, and anti-fascists, intervened and told St. Peter "He is too early. We still got unfinished stuff to do here."
So about two months ago, I got an email notification from Nextdoor, which is a national platform for neighbors to locally communicate on all things relative to good ole American suburbia. Normal posts involve a lost dog notice, a block party being planned, or a local school fundraiser. However, this notification was an urgent warning to everyone, from a concerned neighbor, about an impending “invasion of Antifa rioters” who were headed to our little corner of paradise to “burn down all the stores AND our homes.”
The person making the post reported that large numbers of riot police were being mobilized and deployed to protect our area. Based on the responses to the thread, it was clear many people were shitting their pants. Me? Well I knew better, and laughed at the hysteria while sipping on my happy hour Double IPA.
How did I know this whole warning was fake? In part because I had read many articles about a viral information operations campaign being spread by far right organizations, which was successfully creating an Antifa Army where none existed. But I also knew that the “sky is falling” Chicken Little campaign against Antifa was missing some basic truths about the movement; specifically, that Antifa has no money, is highly decentralized and unorganized, and lacks any leadership structure to mobilize a suburban invasion force. Fact is, the only way many Antifa supporters can get to the suburbs is on their skateboard, which last time I checked has a seating capacity of one. So while the hoax proclaimed “bus loads of Antifa were on the way,” the reality was no one was coming to disturb the ‘burbs.
Not to be outdone, in the coming weeks, the purveyors of this fantasy PSYOPS campaign upgraded Antifa from buses to first class airline tickets. The nation was subjected to stories about mysterious plane loads of Antifa activists, dressed in black, traversing the country to sow their seeds of chaos. POTUS got in on this one, and helped amplify the fake talking point via his Twitter feed and interviews with Hannity.
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To read the whole thing, replace xx with tt to get the whole article, as I couldn't let Marek's comment be the only one as he's full of shit about who and what Antifa is.
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Oct 20
Written By Ben Tupper
So about two months ago, I got an email notification from Nextdoor, which is a national platform for neighbors to locally communicate on all things relative to good ole American suburbia. Normal posts involve a lost dog notice, a block party being planned, or a local school fundraiser. However, this notification was an urgent warning to everyone, from a concerned neighbor, about an impending “invasion of Antifa rioters” who were headed to our little corner of paradise to “burn down all the stores AND our homes.”
The person making the post reported that large numbers of riot police were being mobilized and deployed to protect our area. Based on the responses to the thread, it was clear many people were shitting their pants. Me? Well I knew better, and laughed at the hysteria while sipping on my happy hour Double IPA.
How did I know this whole warning was fake? In part because I had read many articles about a viral information operations campaign being spread by far right organizations, which was successfully creating an Antifa Army where none existed. But I also knew that the “sky is falling” Chicken Little campaign against Antifa was missing some basic truths about the movement; specifically, that Antifa has no money, is highly decentralized and unorganized, and lacks any leadership structure to mobilize a suburban invasion force. Fact is, the only way many Antifa supporters can get to the suburbs is on their skateboard, which last time I checked has a seating capacity of one. So while the hoax proclaimed “bus loads of Antifa were on the way,” the reality was no one was coming to disturb the ‘burbs.
Not to be outdone, in the coming weeks, the purveyors of this fantasy PSYOPS campaign upgraded Antifa from buses to first class airline tickets. The nation was subjected to stories about mysterious plane loads of Antifa activists, dressed in black, traversing the country to sow their seeds of chaos. POTUS got in on this one, and helped amplify the fake talking point via his Twitter feed and interviews with Hannity.
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To read the whole thing, replace xx with tt to get the whole article, as I couldn't let Marek's comment be the only one as he's full of shit about who and what Antifa is.
Fuck you, man. eat shit
You're literally an idiot.