Antifa have breached the doors of this hotel in Minneapolis and have begun destroying the lobby

A paid provocateur, or agent provocateur, is someone hired by authorities or opposing groups to infiltrate a movement, incite illegal acts (like violence or property destruction), or create dissent, aiming to discredit the group, provide justification for crackdowns, or gather evidence for arrests. These individuals deliberately encourage harmful or unlawful behavior to damage a movement's reputation and weaken its effectiveness, often appearing as sincere activists but with ulterior motives, such as discrediting legitimate protests or manufacturing scandals.
Key characteristics & tactics:
Incitement: Encouraging others to break the law, such as engaging in violence, vandalism, or rioting, to provide grounds for arrests.
Disruption: Introducing internal conflict, fracturing coalitions, and magnifying existing weaknesses within a group.
Discrediting: Using extreme tactics (like property destruction) to make the entire movement look radical and unreasonable to the public.
Undercover Operations: Often working secretly for law enforcement, political operatives, or rival organizations to gather information or sow chaos.
Examples in practice:
Law Enforcement: Police might use agents to encourage drug deals to catch suspects in the act.
Political Movements: Agents can be deployed to disrupt protests, shouting slogans or engaging in violence to make peaceful demonstrators look bad.
Historical Context: The term has historical roots in Russia, where police used provocateurs to infiltrate revolutionary groups.
How they are identified:
Skepticism towards sincere activists advocating extreme violence within otherwise nonviolent movements.
Evidence of manipulation or orchestration of disruptive events by external entities.
 
AProudLefty said:
I say it's quite the oppose based on history.
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It's a near 100% chance it's what I say it is because this isn't the first time the radical Left has done exactly this. This is their exact MO for decades now. It just took them time to drive and fly into Minneapolis, and the riot was almost certainly planned for a late-night start time.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
It's a near 100% chance it's what I say it is because this isn't the first time the radical Left has done exactly this. This is their exact MO for decades now. It just took them time to drive and fly into Minneapolis, and the riot was almost certainly planned for a late-night start time.
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There is no purpose in discrediting the protests except to make them look bad.
 
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