new liberal-style protests (OWS, women's march) are largely people cargo culting the old methods without realizing they don't work anymore
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but to the extent they have any strategy, it is not about winning the public, but petitioning the authorities for dispensation
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the college protests like those that followed from missouri and the stupid halloween thing are also perfect examples of this
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then you have the radical-style protests (WTO, hamburg, charlottesville) that are about recreational combat/destruction more than anything
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charitably the main strategy of charlottesville/berkeley/etc for both alt-right/antifa is just to desensitize their adherents to violence
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uncharitably they have no strategy and are just larping in the most literal sense
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Replying to @alicemazzy @bobpoekert
uncharitable interpretation is right w/r/t to the organizers I think
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actually I feel like that's more charitable because it means they're not terrible people I do think counter-actions affect public morale
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @bobpoekert
they aren't "terrible people" they're just dumb and bad at this
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this big tent kind of nonsense is why they have morons waving nazi flags and fat schlubs in confederate uniforms
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I honestly can't believe the supposed *far right* is failing to understand the benefits of hierarchy, discipline, and exclusiveness here
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