• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Literally all they post is cool marxist stuff. It’s fascinating that they’ve been targeted.

    If it really is russia that runs them then my suggestion to the russians is that they seek out western marxists who already run operations making and posting this content and drop money into those western marxists instead via several layers of obfuscation for deniability.

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      That’ll actually get the feds knocking on our doors should anyone be dumb enough to accept foreign, or “foreign” (FBI entrapped) funding.

      Trust me on this one, that is a very dangerous idea.

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        This is one of the examples listed in “Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent” by Harvey Silvergate. If I remember right, it was a small church doing a fundraiser for someone sick in their congregation. Feds show up and arrest the people running the fundraiser. Turns out money from the Lord’s Resistance Army (I think?) was donated to them.

        Guess even warlords get the feels when they see Americans don’t have health insurance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        We don’t have to know about it. There’s nothing stopping any actor from dropping funds into a patreon or liberapay through a series of shell companies and multiple accounts.

        I would be surprised if several governments are not already doing this.