It's scary to see that the organizations that I felt represent quintessential evil, that killed #AaronSwartz, that facilitated useless mass surveilance, that robbed "the people" of dignity, turn out to be the allies of the #freedom, even if temporary, whereas the organizations that I felt represented quintessential good, that facilitated surveilance avoidance, that gave us all options to talk securely about whatever subject we want to discuss, fall to dreadful actors like #russia, #iran, #hamas.

The most fucked up thing is that there are a lot of fellow lefties who are blind to this effect. Women who support killing women by the "guardians of the revolution" in #Iran, mothers who support slaying Jewish children in Israel, social justice advocate who support slamming #Ukraine with rockets just because they have read a book by a guy who never made anything real in his life (#Marx) and heard that #Lenin was also cool.

When you read about the Cambridge Five and you think "what a bunch of fools, how could they have fallen for the soviet narrative?", look around. Take a walk in London past UCL. Count the leninist posters featuring, I kid you not, Vladimir Ilyitch Ullianov-Lenin (I bet the stupid fucks don't even know his full name, hah). Authoritarian brain-washing is very strong and will be strong, no matter which authoritarian state we're talking about. Brainwashing is a pillar of survival of such states, thus it will always be ahead of the Western propaganda.

There are new Cambridge Fives, and possibly in the organizations that you or I have donated to before.

Finally, this idiocy of the left only pours more water on the right-wing watermill.

The least we can do right now, is to TEMPORARILY stop donating to the far-left orgs and orgs like @eff, stop relaying opinions of or mentioning russian agents like Snowden, actively isolate iran, hamas, russia supporters and track them with best effort. Knowing to be careful around them or feeding them disinformation, can literally save lives.

The war is in everyday life, don't underestimate your impact.