The Left's funding comes from institutions, so they don't do any damage to a power structure, and make more of a symbolic attack on a small retail structure. This will further alarm people's senses, but nothing actually changes structurally. It keeps the plebians on their toes.
This is why genuine terrorism from the Left gets overlooked. When they blow up a room in a capital building with a bomb, or use a truck-bomb to destroy a Chemistry building at a college (like they have during the Days of Rage), it doesn't actually threaten the power structure.
No, the real threat to the power structure is when you buy Gamestop stocks when your subordinate hedge funds were supposed to be dictating the market. Or when you leak classified information that exposes government spying operations. Or when you release thousands of scientific documents that were secured behind an academic paywall. Or when you set up a site out-side of the big-tech sphere for people to talk or pay money to things they like.
It's that phrase: "you know you're over the target when the flak is heaviest". You know you've threatened a real power structure when the first thing the government does in response is to break or re-write the law within 24 hours.
If the government bureaucracy dotted it's i's and crossed it's t's to stay within the law, and assigned it to someone who hopes they can advance their career with it, you didn't threaten anything.
The Left's funding comes from institutions, so they don't do any damage to a power structure, and make more of a symbolic attack on a small retail structure. This will further alarm people's senses, but nothing actually changes structurally. It keeps the plebians on their toes.
This is why genuine terrorism from the Left gets overlooked. When they blow up a room in a capital building with a bomb, or use a truck-bomb to destroy a Chemistry building at a college (like they have during the Days of Rage), it doesn't actually threaten the power structure.
No, the real threat to the power structure is when you buy Gamestop stocks when your subordinate hedge funds were supposed to be dictating the market. Or when you leak classified information that exposes government spying operations. Or when you release thousands of scientific documents that were secured behind an academic paywall. Or when you set up a site out-side of the big-tech sphere for people to talk or pay money to things they like.
It's that phrase: "you know you're over the target when the flak is heaviest". You know you've threatened a real power structure when the first thing the government does in response is to break or re-write the law within 24 hours.
If the government bureaucracy dotted it's i's and crossed it's t's to stay within the law, and assigned it to someone who hopes they can advance their career with it, you didn't threaten anything.