Probably. Though how I typically try to approach it is with the assumption people are acting in good faith and try to reach them. Even infiltrators are not immune to being influenced by the views of the people they’re supposed to be working against. I also think having some clear ideological lines makes a difference, like what the grad has. It doesn’t prevent people from lying, but it makes it harder to sneak in BS if that BS breaks with the ideological lines.
As compared to, like, twitter “leftists” where anybody can put whatever in their bio and pretend to be whatever they want, and there’s no process to weed them out because it’s not a space run by principled communists.
Even infiltrators are not immune to being influenced by the views of the people they’re supposed to be working against.
This is really important. Feds are still part of the working class and susceptible to class consciousness. If you suspect someone of being a fed just denounce their reactionary ideas as they show up. If a person consistently pushes reactionary ideas despite being corrected they should be removed from your group regardless of if they are a fed or not. If someone starts fedjacketing denounce that shit because it only serves the purpose of the ruling class.
I wonder how true the infiltrator point is in regard to the internet though, especially since 99% of “infiltrators” are most likely bots released en-masse to generate discord and chaos.
Fair point worth considering, especially as time and energy is concerned in dealing with names that are spewing BS. I’d expect bots to be more so the case on platforms like Twitter or Reddit (and I remember some of them being very obvious after Musk took over). On here, it’s a bit more gatekept and obscure, and even with LLMs being more capable of impersonating a person than previous technology, they could easily go off the rails without monitoring or use AI-ism tells. So if someone were to try a thing like that in a context this confined, I’d still expect them to be doing some reading and using the bot more as an assistant to BS. Whereas like on Reddit, the sheer quantity of input on bigger subs makes it easier to flood shit with BS, while making it a painful endeavor to go through and look at each account to see what weird shit they may be getting up to.
Probably. Though how I typically try to approach it is with the assumption people are acting in good faith and try to reach them. Even infiltrators are not immune to being influenced by the views of the people they’re supposed to be working against. I also think having some clear ideological lines makes a difference, like what the grad has. It doesn’t prevent people from lying, but it makes it harder to sneak in BS if that BS breaks with the ideological lines.
As compared to, like, twitter “leftists” where anybody can put whatever in their bio and pretend to be whatever they want, and there’s no process to weed them out because it’s not a space run by principled communists.
This is really important. Feds are still part of the working class and susceptible to class consciousness. If you suspect someone of being a fed just denounce their reactionary ideas as they show up. If a person consistently pushes reactionary ideas despite being corrected they should be removed from your group regardless of if they are a fed or not. If someone starts fedjacketing denounce that shit because it only serves the purpose of the ruling class.
I wonder how true the infiltrator point is in regard to the internet though, especially since 99% of “infiltrators” are most likely bots released en-masse to generate discord and chaos.
Fair point worth considering, especially as time and energy is concerned in dealing with names that are spewing BS. I’d expect bots to be more so the case on platforms like Twitter or Reddit (and I remember some of them being very obvious after Musk took over). On here, it’s a bit more gatekept and obscure, and even with LLMs being more capable of impersonating a person than previous technology, they could easily go off the rails without monitoring or use AI-ism tells. So if someone were to try a thing like that in a context this confined, I’d still expect them to be doing some reading and using the bot more as an assistant to BS. Whereas like on Reddit, the sheer quantity of input on bigger subs makes it easier to flood shit with BS, while making it a painful endeavor to go through and look at each account to see what weird shit they may be getting up to.