it's to disrupt the fascists' image of unchallenged power and momentum, which is what their recruitment outside the hard core relies on
i dunno, seems awfully optimistic. even for people who regard it utterly cynically it has a lot to do with the lay of the Overton window
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whether it even gets any media attention at all can't be taken for granted either, tho. silence is a propaganda tactic
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yeah, and you and wokie aren't wrong, either it's one the left-leaning media has forgotten, or the left-leaning media isn't left-leaning
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I'll take door number two
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I just think given the nature of the thing there has to be some point where the only way to win the media-approval game is to not play
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if there are enough people physically present at the event the media's trying to demonize, some of them are *going to notice* the disconnect
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sure, but if that event = going straight for the gold in terms of deterrent-grade violence, it's gonna look pretty demonic on the face of it
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that strategy has no legs anyway; there's no level of violence that'll deter nazis from violence, their commitment to escalation is absolute
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if punching doesn't disrupt the narrative then it's also useless, unclear there; otherwise, the only two meaningful settings are nonviolent…
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