This sort of thing definitely never happens at any sort of left wing rallies

and I don't mean to say that it's the people throwing the rallies who are to blame

There's a lot of women and rather fragile men on the antifa side of things.

That affects the calculus I guess.

I recently read, I forget if it was an article or an antifa discussion board where someone was complaining about how that reduced their effectiveness compared to the antifa of the past.

because they arent fighting anything real

if antifa doesnt show up the proud boys wander around and then find beer

Also in terms of class this isn't the same antifa. This isn't working class people who work for a living. These are college student activist dipshits who have never done a day's work in their lives.

It annoys me to see them flying the three arrows of the iron front. I wonder how many of them realize that they weren't only anti-nazi, but anti-communist as well

If this was like dock-workers or warehouse workers agitating then things would be different.

tbh the only people who suffer are the protestors on both sides

what are they accomplishing in the end ?

Don't forget the innocent garbage cans

being the top news story ?

like you see all these anti-trump rallies what are they really doing ? just making fools of themselveS?

@Timcast What did the OWS protestors accomplish ? Getting the park revise it's rules on allowing them to camp there modified ?

OWS got the DNC to mvoe all its money to Amalgamated bank

Amalgamated is Union owned

Alls these protestors do is accomplish a misdirection on real problems

A lot of the modern left wing rallies don't really seem very political. They seem more about fashion than anything

OWS changed the conversation from jobs, to class equality, to identity politics

because, yoiu know, that's going to win elections

@Timcast do you think that's how the birth of the far left began at OWS ?

Intersectionality does a great job at appearing moral and just, and who wants to argue against that?

yup

I guess OWS is when the progressive stack and the ensuing oppression olympics became mainstream.

geez that crazy

it was amazing how we were talking about wall street

the left and right were unified

I would have never pinned it on OWS

then within a week the regressive racists took over

and the right wingers left

what is OWS

occupy wallstreet

ooh

@Timcast you were there so if anyone would know about it , def you

the things that you have seen

leaderless movements suck in that way. There's nobody to say what they are and aren't, so they're more easily co-opted

@Senny Occupy Wallstreet

@Schedrevka i don't believe any movement is leaderless

yea OWS history is all pro occupy because the onyl people there supporteed it