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Trying to put my finger on why this shit seems stupid and dumb on principle, when I'm happy about DGR having been forcefully 86ed from the movement, would giggle at news of Chomsky getting maced, and have read about far more violent conflicts between @s in other times and places without stressing.
I guess it just sounds like, personal behavior aside (HIGHLY doubt Aragorn did the only rudes all weekend) this was more about people wanting to show the PERSONALITY they've heard bad things about online what for, but not wanting the awkwardness of confrontation when they're right in front of you in a dangerous space and every factor is in your favor. Not to mention the ways it seems that no authoritarian lefty has faced the same kind of anarchist hostility that LBCs recently faced, not necessarily out of inherent sympathy as much as calculated weighing of social consequences in this moment. Fuck with the Little Black Cart table and half your library wont disappear, but argue with the wrong tankie in public and half your friends might. Sucks cause I wanna root for nihilist oogles whenever that's an option, but so it is.