Interesting I think is where Tom closes out, about how the cops used purity tests, gossip, and drama to undermine movements and create divisions.

Something to think about, amidst the endless purity wars on lemmy.

Yep. Had the same issues in a supposed anarchist service. I have a comrade now in an isolated psychiatric place (illegally btw), had one of my servers destroyed (had to physically dig up the cold storage key), etc. etc.. Once the leajacketing starts, you already know there are infiltrators.

One of them had the audacity to call my antineoliberal diction: “Just like a Jehova Witness.”
Like fed please, I don't like seeing comrades getting deathcamped, and you call my anti neolib rhetorics “evangelical.” You CIA. Piss off.