> Why are we allowing this shit Because you are not organized at a geograpic level and there are massive federal hiring programs to shut down any such organization. Remember proud boys? Never mind it was being run by a guy who works with federal agencies. Just think of how they shut it down at one point: Sent in a *federal informant* or agent. That *federal* guy commits crimes while *part of the organization*. The *organization* and its leadership is held responsible, even though they were unaware of the federal guys actions or intent. Its guilt by association. Of course someone could argue in bad faith that you "pick your friends wisely", or "leaders are responsible for their people" but the truth is thats different from pure suppression tactics on display here. In practice, we don't have an everyday right to free association anymore. At all. That rights been eliminated by violent suppression and espionage tactics. What is it that we all need to learn *just* to *ensure* the mere *right* to practice our first amendment, and likewise our freedom of association? What we need to practice is *counter intelligence* on a *day to day basis*. Figure out some common, repeatable tactics and methods, that are simple and intuitive, and spread memes teaching others how to do it too. The government, federal, state, and local, of the u.s. is engaged in real life rampant lawlessness. And the citizens, short of being millionaires, have *very little* if any say or recourse in this matter. Pretty much none in fact. There are no authorities to appeal to. Its the authorities doing it. There is no consequences for officials who do it. The people who enforce said consequences are responsible for this state of affairs. And there are no courts that answer for any of this. Representatives pay lip services to us, and engage in what amounts to organized spectacle between a false left and a false right, and are remote and unreachable to anyone that doesnt have millions of dollars or years of time and influence to go to court. We're, in practice, completely voiceless, and entirely unrepresented by DC and even state level governments. So it is on us to organize, and learn to protect those organizations and movements, because the u.s. government doesnt represent anyone anymore but itself and banks on wallstreet beholden to foreign nations.