the original idea of getting arrested on purpose was to demonstrate the state repressing your noble cause, good optics on nightly news
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it doesn't really make sense anymore because it was meant to shock, like most "protest tactics" now routine
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attempting to simultaneously play-act at 60s protests and 20s streetfights, like watching a deeply confused historical reenactment society
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lol you're just mad people are taking things seriously and can only see things from some ironic/larpy pov
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yea maybe
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I never understand tweets like this. Assigning actions to large group identifiers only reinforces tribal instincts
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Ex. Who on The Left is cheering arrests? Given your reply to yourself, is it unreasonable to cheer arrests?
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I don't think it's reasonable or unreasonable, I think it's meaningless theater
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Good point, but no violence from protestors until illegal "counter demonstrators" showed up to shut it down. Govt shld protect
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Nazis. actual nazis.
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Meanwhile, conservatives are unwittingly supporting the violence of ANTIFA and the left against the peaceful alt-right protest.
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