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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Occupy Wall Street

Was that failure organic or due to sabotage from a modern COINTELPRO, though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It smelled like a barn there when it was going on. No plan whatsoever to deal with hygiene. I talked to them a few times and listened. They couldn't even set up a basic organization structure or even agree to decorum in voting like Robert's Rules. Plus they couldn't stay on message. I spoke to a person who identified themselves as a spokesperson who continued to say over and over again "I can't speak for others about that".

You don't need to invent a plan by the CIA to destroy that. It is like every single idea of how to organize a protest was thrown out the window and replaced with well nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

COINTELPRO was an FBI thing (not CIA), but never mind that. Maybe the problem was that they were scared of such infiltration, and over-corrected by trying not to have any hierarchy at all.