Just in case no one else has noticed this or doesn’t want to be the first crank pointing it out (I’m used to it by now lol), what’s going on in Manchester right now should absolutely be considered in the context of a disinformation campaign despite the legitimacy of the gripe,
because disinfo often latches on to legitimate grievances and exploits them to sow further division and attempt to seed real-world violence
So look for this to be married to anti-immigrant, racist horseshit very soon if it isn’t already, and escalations so that there is more bloody violence in the streets, all live-streamed to show the rest of the world that democracy doesn’t work — the end game of all this shit
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Antivaxxers and white supremacists played a key role in the Recall Newsom campaign, remember? This is from July 2020 about a May 2020 event involving the "Freedom Angels," which was the previous moniker of the "Mamalitia." Some were were at the Capitol 1/6 web.archive.org/web/2020071704…
Look what that bear is mad about. Totally nonpartisan, totally grassroots! Geoff Palmer is a "controversial" real estate developer btw
Like, it's possible this group exists and is as described. Not very possible but possible. But this is a one-source story from a Trump supporter, and Trump supporters have not had credibility for a long time -- especially not after everything that led up to 1/6.