I know I am really not letting this one go but can I just say that this is a fascinating choice of aesthetic for the person committed to fighting *against* fascismpic.twitter.com/qPmlJRwXgi
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"What would really communicate our message of total opposition to fascism?" "I'm thinking stormtrooper, but like, MUCH scarier."
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Try to imagine resisting the encroaching spark of self-awareness while running around your nearest major metropolitan area dressed like a low-budget Darth Vader & desperately searching for a nazi to confront before he can get in his Uberhttps://twitter.com/mckenna_ross_/status/1145105652668231681 …
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One might suggest that if your discount SWAT team is having trouble *finding* the enemy at their own event amidst your own innumerable throngs, perhaps just perhaps they've already largely lost the war, & you are doing a bang-up job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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They do seem hellbent on speedrunning the "Beware when fighting monsters..." quote. And the thing is, all movements have bad apples. If people were just like "yeah, that guy doesn't represent us," I'd be happy to let it go. But people can't seem to bring themselves to say it.
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And an alarming number of folks around here are pretty emphatic that this *is* what they stand for, and political violence is good actually.
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there's no leader/main evil guy, so they don't have to worry
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I don't know any antifa personally but from the outside it seems like maladjusted adults playing dress up but actually believing that they are revolutionaries.
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Any actual profiles of these people?
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They're cowards who are afraid to show their faces and deal with any consequences.
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For various reasons beyond the purview of twitter, communism has become read as feminine/gentle; the historic reality is a lot more like that photo, even leaving aside their record of governance. If you think of this as self-expression rather than PR, it tracks perfectly.
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This is of course another way of saying: watch the hips, not the head, and be careful with an announced self-identity which is belied by actual choices. “Anti-“ anything usually covers for a positive agenda, often one which does not wish to trade on its own name.
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