re: #121 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Its a throwback to 80s “in their face” style protest, Act Up, the Ruckus Society, “Act Now, Apologize Later etc. The only real effect was to harden resistance and give conservative schemers a rallying point against lefty excess.
There was a turning point when Greenpeace sent its adventure sport strike force to disrupt the Petroleum Exchange in London. This same group had recently vandalized a NATO missile facility and beaten the shit out of two British police guards. The oil traders, though, fought back and pushed the Greenpeacers off the floor and back onto the street. It got worldwide coverage and people everywhere , including many environmentalists, cheered.
We see the fallout today since Repug propagandists obviously invoke the vague memory of those tactics when they characterize BLM and Antifa as arrogant, disruptive, privileged authoritarians trying to force their will on normal folk.

Though the Repug propogandists will portray *any* liberal protesters as prone to violence and wanting to be an authoritarian minority forcing their (gasp) *SOCIALIST* will on normal folk.