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^ this is not untrue but I think I'd modify it with like, an immediate crisis aspect too? it's not JUST about scene cred and "feels good" after all. Plenty of it doesn't feel good at all. Not sure if the anon means for their criticism to come across this way?

a lot of the snark I see directed at antifa often strongly infers that defending ones self and community is a voluntary activity on the menu of voluntary activities but of course, that might be telling me more about the speaker's sense of where their personal risk exposure is at, rather than how exactly all these different people are choosing to spend their time.

Most of us will at some point, take drastic action to defend ourselves and by extension, people we care about and at least HALF of the antifascist tendency is more about people feeling an urgent need to dramatically intervene somehow in targeted, systematic violence from organized reactionaries so ... it's pretty weird to frame it as a cute voluntary hobby that only appeals to lazy egocentric scene kids with low attention spans or whatever.

imo, it's more like, when a problem is as obvious as gangs of reactionaries physically attacking your friends, more people jump in. that's the appeal. simple.