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Jul 31, 2023Liked by epimetheus

Note the black&yellow flags as opposed to the usual and traditional black&red and green&black resp.

Black&yellow like that is the colours of libertarians as far as traditional political vexillology goes.

The handlers behind these groups know this full well, and the switching of colours is deliberate for many easily imaginable reasons.

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Harr, you saw that, too. Perhaps Antifa doesn't want to be seen sporting black-red flags--which also look 'suspiciously' like the ones sported by the blood and soil de facto Nazis of the Azov troops. Who knows.

I do agree that this kind of premeditated adjustment seems way out of character for these thugs, in particular as I recall talking to some 'Antifa' blokes occupying an empty building near the U of Vienna some 20 years ago: lots of talk of 'workshops' and 'eat the rich' stuff, but some of the protesters told me they'd come to Vienna, Austria, from as far away as Romania (!). Back then, it would seem quite implausible to finance both the trip and the theoretically open-ended occupation of an empty building for several dozens of people--without some deep pockets behind them.

Also note that the yellow-black banners read 'last generation', which is also staunchly advocating for a 'system change', or 'Great Reset', if you will.

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The financing for banners et c is hard without sponsors, so that's probably where one should investigate. Which company printed and delivered the banners et c. Possibly a chinese one neither knowing nor caring what the gweilo-text means, since it's not for use in China anyway.

Housing and food is a very low-cost budget-post. There's no lack of volunteers willing to allow brothers and sisters in the struggle to squat with them for several months, it gives great "cred" and increased stature in the "movement".

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Sure, these things cost a lot of money, and they are quite likely not even hiding the paper trail very well.

My personal guess is that Antifa, like the Black Block and perhaps also the Identitarians, are likely paid via (by) the same people. Neither of them has any base in the population, and neither appeals to more than a teeny-tiny segment of 'radicals'.

I further suppose that it wouldn't be unlikely if these people behind either group would do so to detract from other, more serious stuff (e.g., digital ID, CBDCs, 24/7 surveillance, social credit scoring, etc.); why, you might wish to ask, would I say that? Well, most notably because neither of these groups question 'capitalism', private property, and the like.

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You are most definitely right.

When I was involved in activist-circles in the 1980s, we sure as sh*t didn't get back-door funding (we did however set ourselves up as "study circles" as a way to leech tax money - fully legal) but back then we actually analysed, mapped out and critised the circles of power for real, not by diktat by far-off corporate handlers.

And party-affiliated infiltrators were always easy to spot and oust.

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If there really was Rechtsextremismus in Austria, where are the cases of brownshirts breaking up leftist meetings?

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