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by yunohn 626 days ago
Wait, you seriously think that agent provocateurs are a hoax? Literally not sure how to reply, you could just google it?
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I think the claim isn't that agent provocateurs don't exist, it's that jumping to it as first explanation is lazy and slightly cranky. Just because the government has killed civil rights activists in the past, doesn't mean the next civil rights activist who dies was a government assassination.
Of course, and the Boeing whistleblower and Epstein really did commit suicide amid some of the most high profile cases of the decade.
I'm sure they were needed in the 90s and 00s.

Today there are enough meth heads that the only thing police need to do for violence at a rally to explode is nothing.

So you’re gonna write off any question of illegitimate interference by governments/corporations as “meth heads looking for violence”?