had some DMs with a
longtime anarchist in Minneapolis
won't screencap but impressions:
- extremely spooked
- feels like things are out of control, different than past demonstrations
- last night felt like an invasion
- feels like minneapolis is a stage for something bigger
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of course everyone has an angle but this didn't read to me like spin they were genuinely upset and concerned about what's going down in their neighborhood providing as context for everyone
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"stage for something bigger" in the sense of "there are way more actors at work here than one usually sees in cop vs anarchist conflicts" https://twitter.com/stanGorbachev2/status/1266832672061632513 …
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if i were to list potential actors off the top of my head - local leftists - out of state leftists - other out of state leftists (so many groups) - local underclass - private right wing agents provacateurs - police APs - foreign agents these are not remotely mutually exclusive
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another possibility is that the riots are in a large part an information contagion frankly everyone is able to see everyone else rioting and livestreaming it and getting a FUCKTON of CVC https://twitter.com/tundranaut/status/1266838040107839488 …
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overall I recommend against trusting any narrative right now, especially simple ones things are moving very quickly and no one is in control and everyone involved has incentive to spin and rememberhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225 …
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i trust it about as much as i trust anything else a politician says ama about police data
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So then, instead of assuming a single actor, it would seem that maybe social media functions more as a way of deflecting responsibility -- for each and every party that has a voice?
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Yeah Lots more shading but thats basically right
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It seems like people's desire to make sense of phenomena is too simplistic; leaping to intentions/connections with the goal of wrapping everything into a neat package.
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