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Ideally, we decide to do political actions because we think they'll help the political situation. Lead to good change. Make the world a better place It's sometimes worth looking at the cost/benefit of various actions. Like breaking a sideview mirror on a chud's vehiclepic.twitter.com/73GIVR5wxT
What are the benefits, from an antifascist perspecitve, of this action? Theoretically, it could deter chuds from returning In practice that usually works about as well as the police beating the shit out of BLM protesters has worked over the past 4 months, read: not very well
What are the downsides? Well, half a million people might view the video taken by said chud that shows only the window breaking and no context from the past few months of escalating far-right threats That's a thing that could happenpic.twitter.com/FmoFSWTqd4
No one likes the optics conversation. And optics aren't the only thing that matters. Keeping people safe is real important. Confronting people who come downtown to create trouble is important
On a national level, though, optics are the only thing that matters. What other effect could a confrontation between 40 people in Portland have on the political situation? This action didn't keep anyone safe--he was leaving already--but it sure did generate some nice propaganda
I'm not policing anyone. I'm not calling the cops on anyone, I'm not preventing anyone from doing anything they damn well please I'm just pointing out that actions like these have huge drawbacks and virtually no benefit. That's all
plus that guy was stabbed acouple months ago. super counter productive
Pictured below Andrew Duncomb with Chris Tough. Read more about them and others here: https://eugeneantifa.noblogs.org/post/2020/09/20/inside-the-pnw-patriot-coalition/ …pic.twitter.com/4PCgaLOKpD
This feels like the conversation from last week about why a DA at @ndy n9o's house was not a good idea. Gotta look ahead a bit to how people's actions can feed into the anti BLM narrative. I think the right is good at successfully setting up leftists to fail in terms of optics.
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