Well, since nobody mentioned this, I think I'll post it up.
I decided to follow up a little bit and join my local group.
Then, like magic...
Long story short, a lot of the local groups were using Discord as a 'forum' for people to meet up and coordinate online.
If you just thought "gee, I could have told you how that was going to work out without the picture", well congrats, and ditto. Discord has always been a leftist haven.
On Nov 2 Discord kicked everyone off. Not just my group, ALL Amcon related groups.
If you're thinking "gee that sure is convenient timing", yeah me too.
When my account got deleted and I got the ole 'you big meany' email above, I knew immediately exactly what had happened, because I've had it happen before on other soc-media sites like Facebook, and been watching coverage of this happening to other internet personalities as well for the last couple years. YES, the censorship is real; yes, it's blatantly politically biased one way. If anyone says otherwise, slap them. Hard.
I went on the Locals page just to confirm, and sure enough, it was partly hilarious and partly depressing watching the influx of feed-posts of every tom dick and harry posting up the above screenshot and wondering WTF happened. Ummm....you did a badthink, 1A doesn't apply to you, duh.
Needless to say, people are now running around trying to figure out an alternate.
Yes dear reader, I know not the status of other groups, but in the approx 2 weeks I was on my local group, they never got an off-internet connectivity plan sorted out (and I'm showing up a couple months late to boot...). Apparently the Signal app was supposed to be it, but there was never a roster or other connectivity plan using it sorted out, at least as far as I could tell (and I asked the group coordinator directly).
Brilliant.
You know... I hate to rag on the group, because like I've said before, any attempt to organize is better than nothing at this point. But damn...
From what I've seen on the Locals page, and then what I saw of my AO group... you know, once I got to the Discord page, I expected to find people with a fire under their ass actively reaching out to coordinate and link up on a local ground-level.
Maybe the mindset will change now that they've been BTFO'd.
But honestly, it was just the same thing I could find anywhere else. A bunch of 'the usual' conversation about current events, bookended with people either posting info anyone could find anywhere, or asking for information anyone could find anywhere, and has been more than available from a variety of legit sources for well over ten years.
Why is it that everyone one of this sort of group thing seems to be like 75-90% noobs that have been living under a rock for the last decade or two?
I mean, if you're posting up 'need to know' info that a large part of the people in the group don't know, that I could type up OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD right now... It's a sad day when I feel like an SME on any topic.
It also seems like some of the coordinator/group leadership was spending more time trying to figure out how to partner with various organizations for the future than doing the job of the group, ie, group people up and and get them working together IRL right now, in anticipation of post-election shenanigans.
It's the small shit you can do today that counts... The rest of the 'big moves' can come after.
There's nothing that I saw that was so top secret or so much of a benefit that it required this ridiculous vetting hoopla either. Good grief, half of it is essentially a glorified HAM club.
Like I said previously, and I stand by it - NONE of this is something that ANYONE could have done in the last several years for themselves. It's just that people are too pathetic and lazy to think and do it themselves; they've got to be led there by the nose because a 'cool guy' told them to get on with it already.
C'mon man!
Anyway, I'll quit ranting now.
Last edited by Jellybean; 11-06-20 at 20:34.
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