"Open-source network insurgency"

Описание современной антифы почти изнутри.

"Почти" потому, что автор не проникла в организационную гущу, но наблюдала тактику действий вблизи.

There are different types of bloc organization styles. The building block of antifa is what's called an affinity group, people you live and work with and trust and know in real life. All the planning is done within that closed bloc, and they don't let everyone know [what they're going to do]. I didn't know that they were going to burn the Portland Police Association when I joined. What they did was put a call out that said, "Anyone show up in black that night at this place, and you can join the action." That's called a semi-open bloc. The planning is done within the closed group, but anyone who's dressed in black can come join the action. If you know what you're looking for, you can spot affinity groups that are working together.

They're trying to create propaganda. They know how the police are going to react, so they carefully calibrate what they do to try to provoke the police into reacting and then filming it.

Antifa goes for a certain type of violence, a mid-level violence. Most people aren't practiced in violence, and what they'll do is, they'll either back down or they'll overreact. Antifa basically as a group does the equivalent of just pushing someone on the shoulder, and again, and again. [...] Most people don't know how to handle that mid-level force. So they either back down or they slug people; either way is a win.

People keep looking for a chain of command, and you don't necessarily need that, as long as everyone understands a basic level of instruction it works. [...] It's an open-source network insurgency, not so much a chain of command.

People think antifa and they picture people in black. Antifa is bigger than that. Black bloc is a tactic. Dressing in black, it's a tactic. You don't have to dress in black to be antifa. You don't even have to hit the streets. There are people who work in tech, hackers who never hit the streets, and they're still antifa.

(Всё это напоминает мне книги Нила Стефенсона.)

Не только бельгийские врачи

Недавно слышал о призыве бельгийских врачей к открытому дебату инфекции и мер борьбы с ней на тему, как бы не переборщить. А вот и американцы подтянулись, но уже с открытым призывом не сходить с ума и трезво оценивать риск болезни и стоимость (в том числе в здоровье) принимаемых мер:

Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States, by:

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.

Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.

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(Хоть это и гиблое дело.)

Вице-президент Пенс хорошо покажет себя в дебате. После победы Трампа на выборах больше половины масс-медия комментаторов припишут её этому дебату.