there is no optics victory when you’re getting gunned down in the street by some bobby hill looking dipshit wearing american flag crocs. we need to start protecting each other

How many people need to die for the PR, anon?

Me, as I slowly bleed to death on the concrete, surrounded by my unarmed comrades who were all gunned down effortlessly by som nazi teenager: “This....arghhh grdlsdw..... is gonna....oooffg....  look so good in the...arghh... media.... tomorrow... *dies*”

The media: “Dead anarchists were problematic, probably. Allegedly burned a trash can once. Read our interview with the shooter about his vision for America.”

Absolutely no one: “This really makes me want to get out there and do left wing activism so I too can die defenseless in the pursuit of good optics.”

*Protestors get gunned down by a fascist in support of cops*

Politicians: It is a national good that anarchists are stopped by any means necessary. :)

Cops: Agreed. :)

Fascist/Right-Wing Populace: Agreed. :)

Media: Agreed. :)

Liberals/Pacifists: omg don't arm yourselves think of the optiiiiiccccsssssss :'((((((

Images:

• black-and-white group portrait of 10 male French resistance fighters in 1944, smiling at the camera and raising their riffles in the air in celebration of their freedom, which was won by people with guns shooting nazis.
• Black and white group portait of 9 female partisans posing with their riffles on their shoulder or in front of them, one partisan aims her riffle forward to the right of the camera. Dinara mountain, Yugoslavia 1942.

IDK folks, hese look like great optics to me.