[…] Boston was way more significant than people thought. It should be viewed as a companion to Cville in its significance. Imagine if 50 antifascists faced down 15,000 fash. Yikes. Just yikes.

It would register as a sea-change and call for a complete refocusing of tactics. It would have been demoralizing and terrifying. It certainly wouldn’t have been “fun”. However, I doubt that most of even the casual antifascists would stop participating in the movement. Why? Because the politics of anti-fascism are based on actual struggle. The pepe kids simply went out with the giddy sense that they would have a good time with their bros while humiliating their enemy.

Fun is the main motivator for the stickboy-orbiter wannabes. Fun pairs well with brotherhood. […] It’s no coincidence that many edgelord dudes became radicalized by gamergate and the anita shit. They felt like someone had come to take their videogames, and ruin their fun.

It’s fking obvious to anyone that the real threat that leftists and feminists pose to these chuds is not to their “fun”, but their power. White dudes have too much power compared to other groups in society. However, to the all too typical breed of dude who wraps himself up in a kek flag, the distinction between “power” and “fun” is pretty damn blurry. Trolling is an expression of power meant to entertain the troller and their audience. Videogames are often power fantasies. Treating women like shit is about power too. I’m sure it’s a form of disgusting entertainment for the perpetrators as well.

So then you get something like Boston, where you are utterly and humiliatingly outnumbered. Thousands of voices thunder over yours. You can barely hear yourself speak. You’re sweating under your helmet, feeling pretty cringey now because you’re all dressed up for combat and looking ridiculous. Nobody can see your shitty placard, covered in memes, because the police have a 200 yard barrier. All the other fash are standing around on their phones. You can smell pizza wafting over from the antifascist side, and you kick yourself for only bringing a single funsize bag of doritos. You’re weak. This ain’t fun. You don’t come back out next time.

I’ll finish up by saying that I think the two most important things for crushing a fascist uprising in your area are these two main points:

1. Make it fucking suck to be a fash. Doxx, humiliate, and corner them. No fun for nazis.

2. Absolutely overwhelm them with numbers. Drag your friends out if you have to. Get as many people to come out as possible. In my state, we crushed the alt-right rally bullshit relatively early by getting an overwhelming number of antifascists, both liberal and hard left to oppose and mock them furiously. They didn’t show up again.

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