Re:"You've angered the hive"
by michaelchisari on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @10:38AM
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I take those into account but disregard them because of my experience with asymmetrical umbrella movements. Because a dozen griefers do something and call themselves Anonymous or are labelled with it by the media doesn't mean that they have the capability to define a movement. It's not insignificant, but at the same time, it's barely significant. Groups with these formations are defined by their most significant actions, not their least.
...you engender such a large selection bias that I remain as convinced as ever that you're simply projecting your own beliefs onto something considerably more nihilistic. Yes, if you throw out everything that doesn't fit the quotably Bakuninian pattern you expect by saying "oh, but that was different people" or "oh, that was just an overreaction", it all becomes so clear...but if you don't, you get a messy and impure reality in which Anonymous better resembles Brownian motion than a movement.