hotspur [he/him]
Is this fairly unprecedented? What I mean is sure many leaders in last 20 years have threatened conflict and stuff, but like directly posting on social media that they’ll utterly destroy a country and murder civilians as punishment if they don’t get what they want?
I’m sure Bush said some stuff in the 9/11 GWOT years and Russia does its veiled threat thing here and there, Iran talks vaguely of destroying great satans once and a while but this is like a specific threat of annihilation to a civilian population.
Like usually the threats are couched in metaphors, I guess, and this is clearly non-metaphorical.
Yeah this whole “give RFK secret service detail” made me wonder, are there just like cadres of reserve/on-call secret service protection details chillin in office cubicles ready to go out and take bullets for weirdos? I mean they must have some depth, but like wouldn’t it definitely mean some mild deduction to back for the existing details?
I don’t get how discord is supposed to replace forums… it’s a chat room. It’s incredibly hard to use it as a comprehensive info resource. You have to read everything backwards, as part of some never ending conversation… it’s great for real time coordination, and as a chat room/community hub, by my god the notifications alone And the settings to get them to stop are mind boggling.
Achilles was into dudes
naw dude, it’s obviously the buffy fish owl
they’re mad that even in their engineered moment, Bernie somehow still steals the show… no one is making biden memes except a few paid budigeg clones
this is my read also. It seems like maybe there was some fishy stuff up at the top, but the rank and file were just sorta hung out to dry, and they made choices in the moment based on the situation and/or their latent sympathies. I mean screw them generally, but from an organizational standpoint they definitely got fucked over. Must be fun to be cop and realize your “brother” law enforcement agencies aren’t coming to help you or back you up… against a bunch of thin blue line supporters, no less haha.
I mean its just like burning an asset though–he can’t really be used for undercover work as easily after, and it’s a specialized type of work. Like sure, they can find something else for him to do, but my understanding is you typically try and maintain cover indefinitely, having your big mug on a widely distributed digital wanted poster that internet dorks can spend hours squinting at is non-ideal. kinda like when bellingcat blows FSB dudes cover. Sure, there’s loads more of those dudes waiting to go poison people, but they’re specialized operatives, and don’t just grow on trees… If he is truly part of an OP, my guess would be that the FBI isn’t in on it, much like there was lots of internal compliance at capitol police and DHS, etc, but FBI is now dropping the hammer on participants. On the other hand, I guess the other way to look at it is that this was some informant/chud they co-opted, used like a burner phone and don’t have any future plans for, in which case, the wanted poster would be intelligent to use.