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I guess that makes sense. So do you think the ACP are in on this, or are they just useful idiots? You said they do damage control when he tweets something that reflects particularly poorly on them (i don't follow any of these people so i didn't know that), would they do that if they were in on the whole grift?
Everything from this point on is hypothesizing because short of an actual signed document, we can't know anything for sure. There's precedent for this, for example we've known about CIA operations for years before they come out and admit it. See e.g. founding and training of Al Qaeda.
From my observations ACP basically slaps a coat of fresh paint on top of the edifice. It's the same old streamer bro club and their fans, but this time they try to make it official. At the top of ACP, in its commissions or departments or whatever they call it, is the streamers club - MWM, Infrared, Hinkle, a few other that I never bothered to learn about. These guys are the public face of the ACP and also the hereditary cadres of the central committee. Note that none of them were elected into these positions when the "party" was founded, or if they were they never officially said. Normally when you make an actual party, you also elect people with the membership that signed off on the party. They did things the other way around: they made a party between themselves and then the people "flocked" (I'm still not convinced it's not just 5 people in a trench coat).
Then you have the "officers" or commissars who are sort of thought leaders with some of their own audience, but to a lesser extent. Some actually are relativey famous on social media, e.g. RTSG and DD Geopolitics -- yes, they're patsocs, but what makes them commissars is that everything they do, beyond their own grift that seems to make them money, is to promote infrared and the ACP, now that it exists. They're like the recruiters in an MLM scheme (not the maoist kind).
At the third rung you have the fools being taken in by this obvious farce. No pity for them though, they bite into it hook line and sinker. They want to be nazis so bad without actually being nazis, they're not our friends any more than the leaders are. Some have actually been able to leave it, with varying results. Some of those ex-patsocs still have very concerning ideas (if they're going to say they're communists), and some seem to have become very based. But it's something they have to do on their own time, we can't deprogram them if they don't want to. Anyway. It's the same five people you see on Twitter doing "charity drives" (giving away some old clothes) and "cleaning up" 2 trash bags worth of detritus along a bougie avenue. It's always the same (white) people in these pictures. That's the extent of what ACP organizes because that's the extent of what it requires to do. Also, they mostly stopped posting pictures after the first few months of their founding, leading me to believe they also just stopped being active at doing anything lol.
If ACP is anything, it's to concentrate the infrared brand of patsocism into one, and get its leading figures to formally recognize each other as being part of the same movement. You'll note that Maupin, who started the whole patsoc thing in the US, is nowhere in the picture. They had a falling out at the same time infrared promoted "Mecha tankie" (lol), and now Maupin is running with the moonies and doesn't even call himself a communist anymore lol.
So, is it a grift or is it a psyop? Well, why not both? It's kind of a cop out but it's the best I can tell you at this time. I have no idea about the politics of being an informant for the FBI (but would love to find a book about it), usually people do it as part of a plea deal to avoid a harsher prison sentence or outright charges, but I don't know what happens after that, if you have to deliver results, if they give you orders, or what. I assume you kinda have to make money though and might not be able to get a conventional job. Or if you don't do a good enough job they throw you back in the prison pipeline so you're incentivized to commit to it full time.
DD Geopolitics is an ex-US army officer, if that gives you any ideas. She pretended to be from the Donbass (hence the DD part) and then got found out and basically carries on as normal since then. People like MWM and Infrared are obviously doing it for the money -- one of the MWM goons was selling a fucking 80$-a-pop zoom course on marxism last year. Infrared makes donation money. We've already mentioned Hinkle.
If they're feds, their job is basically to kill communism off for good in the US. Is it likely that this is what's happening? I don't know. Is it possible? yes. Especially as the empire is entering its death phase, they might want to prevent class consciousness from happening. I mean, the US is becoming more fascist by the day since 2016, is it any question it would reach "communists" too.
I mean it's not riveting theory. Just earlier they quoted Jefferson, a noted slaver who raped enslaved women and enslaved his own child resulting from the rape. That's the kind of people these "communists" look up to. It's basically Strasserism, take the symbols, apply the theory loosely because you don't understand it, and then synthesize a weird ideological mix out of it. Were the Strasser brothers feds? Yes.