Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
This person is such a naive liberal and that’s why they didn’t get deeper and why this won’t have a meaningful impact. Lifestyle anarchist maybe at best. I mean outing themselves to protect a bourgeois reporter who most likely was in no real danger from these cowards and had no particular reason to and immediately blew his cover (that’s exactly the thanks you get and why your attitude towards bourgeois press should be “fuck em”)? After all that work too. Rookie mistake after being the only one to raise anything about it in a conference.
This guy freaking out and blowing his cover over this is bad, people may die (actually good people, not bourgeois stenographers) because of his decision to unnecessarily reach out to a reporter who didn’t even care to protect his attempt to help them. It will only encourage these groups to engage in that kind of testing earlier and more often and perhaps even actually force recruits to kill or maim leftists. Because after all it worked here, it finally outed him.
Also should have sent a copy of the documents to like unicorn riot or some other leftist doxxing group as these “responsible reporters” from Propublica are capitalist, imperialist stenographers who aren’t going to actually out any of these people to anyone but their direct supervisors at the FBI meaning there will never be a full uncovering or any kind of even tiny reckoning from this. Not to mention having those names could help operational security for leftist groups immensely as they’re absolutely infiltrating DSA and ML parties.
Kind of like how many of those Snowden documents vanished and will never be published because he didn’t send copies to better people who might have leaked more or all of it.
Not that institution and fourth estate loving liberals will ever learn but let this be a lesson to folks here, send it first to amenable liberals but schedule another release to an actually left group, include instructions not to release for a few months so your liberal reporter doesn’t feel burned and pre-empted but make sure it all gets out soon enough.
“This guy freaking out and blowing his cover over this is bad, people may die (actually good people, not bourgeois stenographers) because of his decision to unnecessarily reach out to a reporter who didn’t even care to protect his attempt to help them. It will only encourage these groups to engage in that kind of testing earlier and more often and perhaps even actually force recruits to kill or maim leftists. Because after all it worked here, it finally outed him.”
Very grim but point well taken