the "experts" are: —two guys from something called the Network Contagion Research Institute which only punches left and is funded by an Israeli surveillance entrepreneur —a grad student who disagrees with the premise of the article —a guy from CSIS, which has zero expertise in domestic policy - ThreadSky

samthielman.com • 4 days ago

the "experts" are:
—two guys from something called the Network Contagion Research Institute which only punches left and is funded by an Israeli surveillance entrepreneur
—a grad student who disagrees with the premise of the article
—a guy from CSIS, which has zero expertise in domestic policy

Reposted from NBC News

Some far-left groups have encouraged peaceful protests to turn violent, experts say.

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screading.bsky.social•4 days ago

Love how the far left who despite completely being out of power and lacking in influence are somehow more responsible for the violence than the guys with guns and tanks.

thereductio.bsky.social•4 days ago

We make them do this! 🤕

samthielman.com•4 days ago

Please note that Jon Lewis, the guy who correctly understands that the premise of the piece is garbage, is *not* a doctoral student but a research fellow at a GWU think tank. My mistake.

rickclark.bsky.social•4 days ago

No responsible organizer of a No Kings Day protest isn’t going to allow violence as an option, as that would throw red meat to Fox News and Right Wing outlets supporting trump’s agenda. I would be highly suspicious of the motives of any organizer, advocating, such stupidity.

samthielman.com•4 days ago

(Or maybe he is a doctoral student! But “grad student” feels a little dismissive)

spicybonuscontent.bsky.social•4 days ago

"Grad student" is the most dismissive term known to humankind. Ask me how I know!

Actually, you don't have to. In this essay I shall

mithos343.bsky.social•4 days ago

Research Fellow at a Think Tank seems to mean makework a lot

samthielman.com•4 days ago

It really, REALLY depends on the thinktank! Some of them are very thoughtful theory labs and others are welfare for cranks designed for generating theory-shaped chum to make reactionaries look like their opinions are deeply considered rather than just bigoted reflexes

mithos343.bsky.social•4 days ago

Good to know! Appreciate it <3

fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social•4 days ago

Weird. Here, CSIS is Canada’s FBI. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service

samthielman.com•4 days ago

You may remember the NCRI from a bunch of poorly done studies a few years ago trying to pretend the boogaloo bois were left-wing.

fairlynormalperson.bsky.social•4 days ago

Dr. Byman’s expertise is in Middle East-based terrorist organizations. While he might have some general knowledge on these issues, there are many specialists that should have been contacted first. Any chance that they did and those people did not give a good quote that fit the framing of the piece?

culturalfatwa.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hey guys

I know you're all about that peace thing, but have you considered how cool and woke it'd be to do

VIOLENCE

let's check it out with some of these armoured cyborgs firing rubber bullets at us point blank range

Just for a laugh like

sciencehippies.bsky.social•4 days ago

I somehow managed to purge the phrase “boogaloo bois” from my memory, thanks I hate it

endmetothemoon.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is my favorite

racheleklein.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ahahahaha “We saw the flatlined x axis shoot STRAIGHT up when we switched it with the y axis.”

cyanlol.bsky.social•4 days ago

When we switched the word “hate” for “love”, we found that the respondents had very positive feelings about our company

endmetothemoon.bsky.social•4 days ago

When we changed the word "trafficking" to "hugging," evidence of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes plummeted

dypset.bsky.social•4 days ago

No one is more eager to exchange fascism for regulatory favors than Comcast/nbc u

nathrach.bsky.social•2 days ago

Paint is peaceful

lkjandersen.bsky.social•4 days ago

If I someone told me to name a group so it sounds evil while also saying absolutely nothing about what they do, I'd come back with Network Contagion Research Institute. And they'd tell me to come back with something that sounds like they are serious people.

endmetothemoon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ah ah, you forget, a police chief was thrown in there for comment.

Just a little bacon glaze on that dogshit cake

joegekko.bsky.social•4 days ago

"recent pattern" like recent compared to what, the Big Bang?

jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social•4 days ago

Reminded of the American Psy-Op podcast awhile back; parts about the Standing Rock protests & how no matter how committed to non-violence, there’s people sliding in to movements who can’t wait to instigate violence for power-greed-police state reasons but it’s not just 1 unified group or agenda

melissagiragrant.com•4 days ago

“A 2022 report by the institute found that animus toward law enforcement among anarchist types had been proliferating online for years” groundbreaking work

haredurer.bsky.social•4 days ago

"Anarchists dislike cops" sez study

cyanlol.bsky.social•4 days ago

Next they’re going to do a million-dollar study to see whether or not socialists like capitalism

thereductio.bsky.social•4 days ago

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

criminalerin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Lemme guess

They think robot cars can feel pain and fear

stellinagp.bsky.social•4 days ago

Simply call them by their names. Rich Schapiro and Andrew Blankenstein.

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