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yeah... the same playbook. The FBI-King letter is one of the cleaner documented examples of how agencies manufacture pressure, isolation, and "suicide" narratives against people who become inconvenient. Ofc the techniques haven’t gone away: they’ve just moved into forums, Discords, group chats, and comment sections.
Nikolai Mushegian left behind a short, practical compilation of exactly those methods (forum sliding, consensus cracking, topic dilution, the classic disinfo rules, how to spot the operators). He posted it months before he died under circumstances... that still don’t sit right with a lot of people who understood what he was building...
Worth reading if you want the field manual instead of just the historical doc: #341985
Thanks for sharing @spirobel -- I had never heard of Zersetzung. I did read Yuri Bezmenov, he described a related technique on the larger scale -- demoralization as the first stage of ideological subversion. Change what people believe is real, isolate them from their own group, and the rest follows. Different times, governments, and agencies. Always the same idea.