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antifainternational · 7 months ago

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"Bad-jacketing" is when activists in a movement start making unsupported accusations and spreading unfounded rumours about other activists in the same movement, claiming that they are "plants" or "spies" or bad actors of some kind, or that they aren't who or what they claim to be and are really involved in the movement in order to sabotage it from within. Bad-jacketing is also a counter-intelligence strategy used most infamously by COINTELRPO to undermine the civil rights and Black liberation movements in the U.S. by attempting to instigate in-fighting within those movements. Most weeks, some goof writes to Antifa International, always pretending to be a different person from a different place, and then claiming that account X or blogger Y is secretly a nazi. They then back this up by making outlandish claims about the nazi stuff their target has allegedly been up to, but never with any supporting documentation, references, or information - expecting us to just trust that some Anon writing to us is on the level and not at all trying to undermine the movement via bad-jacketing. These attempts are ham-fisted enough for us to see through for what they really are - obvious attempts to sew distrust and discord in the anti-fascist moving via bad-jacketing. But this week's was especially funny for us given that the person they were accusing of cozying up to "neo nazis" and "neo colonizers" - kroptokindersurprise - IS A LONG-STANDING AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF OUR OWN ANTIFA COLLECTIVE! On top of that, trust us when we say that kropotkindersurprise wouldn't be messing with people in NJ or the University of Pennsylvania because they are thousands of miles away from and have zero connection to either of those places.

Nice try Anon, but you should maybe think twice about who you're trying to bad-jacket next time. Or better yet, just stop and find a more productive way to spend your free time.

#antifa #bad jacketing #bad jacket #COINTELPRO #counter intelligence

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thornshadowwolf · 1 year ago

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In complete seriousness, they need to make laws about ads that say they can take no more than one, maybe two, clicks/taps to close/skip. No more "wait 10 seconds until you can skip the video, wait 10 seconds until you can skip the fake playable ad, wait 5 seconds until you can close the 'download now' overlay, puts up a half-screen in-app appstore pop-up (which at least you can close immediately)." This should literally be illegal to do.

Edit: this is blowing up so I just wanted to add (haha ad) that this was my "reasonable request" I also think there should be way more and way stricter laws around all advertising in general. I think most advertising as we know it today should be abolished.

#ThornShadow.said #advertising #edit: I also have this sick pin on my jacket that has a “no�� symbol with ads #and text that says 'abolish advertising in the media // replace this source of funding with government funding based on independent ratings'#not my idea but now that it's been presented to me it doesn't sound bad #like there are film funds and art funds and whatnot

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kropotkindersurprise · 6 months ago

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These people have been blockading and physically attacking Israeli drone factories and companies linked to them since long before the start of the current Israeli campaign to eradicate the Palestinian people, AND have been succesfully defending their arrested members in court. Go fuck yourself.

Reminder that bad-jacketing, or accusing orgs or specific activists in a movement of being ops or plants or cops is literally from the COINTELPRO handbook to disrupt social movements, and was used to undermine and ultimately destroy the Black Panthers and AIM, among others. If you wanna throw accusations around you better be able to back it up.