My postmortem shortest summary on @jmrphy and @primalpoly's discussion about Antifa amounts to this: vigilante police is a TERRIBLE idea because of the rewards/costs analysis. A corollary is that police accountability has to be high enough to trust them to do their jobs well.
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And this is a fairly reasonable thing to conclude unless the police are really behind held to a very high standard of conduct, visibly, including public accountability. The police in a fascist state will defend and promote fascism and its ends.
It's internally consistent, I just question whether or not anyone actually gets there unless they wish to fulfill the paramilitary fantasy themselves — I think most sideline supporters of antifa would admit that they'd feel less safe if the police weren't present at these events
