Fucking thank you!!! As a sex worker, I know my hooker alias is linked to my government name in a federal law enforcement database and that governments use facial recognition technology to detain sex workers at international borders. We have anecdotal evidence of this happening for at least the past 6 years. If you’re a leftist who has done any fedposting at all without using op sec that borders on clinical paranoia, you should assume you’re on a list. Knowing you’re on a list doesn’t mean you should throw all caution to the wind, but people should know that you are never really anonymous online and behave accordingly.

The feds will show up at your house with printouts of your social media fedposts.

This is a completely fair response and I think I was overly broad with my original comment. For what it’s worth, I don’t believe I’m a badass, I’m a joke of an organizer - I’m just speaking from the perspective of someone active in the scene. And left-wing security culture has by far been more of a detriment to organization locally than a boon.

If someone doesn’t have the time, energy, or inclination to do organizing work IRL I think that’s totally fine. Everyone has the right to enjoy their personal time how they see fit, and that may include posting on a niche left-wing Internet forum; and not everyone is in a good place in their life to do organizing work.

What bugs me is clowns on the Internet spreading self-defeating paranoia-induced “privacy best practices”. Read any modern work of theory; hell, listen to a shitty leftist podcast; and they’ll tell you that the most effective weapon the Capitalist class has is not shooting you with a gun or putting you in jail; it’s the chilling effect on speech that their threats engender.

It is asinine to consider filing a FOIA request on Hexbear a serious mistake.

The more I get involved with my org the more I agree with the take

That’s kind of the point. We have to watch out because sometimes the opportunity comes along and you find yourself pulled into a local action group and suddenly you’re “a badass” because you’re helping a bunch of boomers fight a multimillionaire capitalist known for sending violent men to the houses of the people who stand up to them and their projects.

Not me of course I’m just a harmless liberal.

“Everybody is a settler cracker unless proven otherwise” is bound to run into some friendly fire eventually.

Why someone would do that while also having served in the imperial death machine on a site with a sizeable portion of non-American posters is beyond me.

How about you shut the fuck up considering you were a volunteer soldier in the fascist army?

I mopped the fucking floor at the Nation of Islam’s local meeting hall