Here's how that Bannon/Pedo event is gonna go down.
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This sets up a standard demonstrator v. state dynamic. Nothing we haven't seen before.
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But alt-right agitators are going to take advantage of this to provoke violence.
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Gibson/Chapman types are going to instigate by assaulting people, pepper spraying, etc.
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This will provoke a justified self-defense reaction. But with heavy police presence, this will spark even more state violence.
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This creates the optics of violent leftists because society unquestioningly accepts state violence as legitimate.
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This poses some issues for the left. It's hard to not walk into this trap.
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You can be 1000000% nonviolent and the cops will still attack because that's how cops do.
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So you have to protect from that. You can't let the fash just attack because they try to kill people.
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The Boston model works. Roll out like 40,000 people. But that's unlikely.
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Alternatively, the left needs to get coordinated media covering what's happening and catch the instigators in the act.
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Ferguson was a great lesson in using social and media to swing a narrative even when the mainstream was heavily slanted.
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Events in Turkey also can help serve as a model. Turkey is deeper in than we are. And Turkish journalism is a much different thing.
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But we can learn from those places, and we can out-maneuver the trap while keeping people as safe as can be.
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