It honestly bothers me how like, naive some leftists are. A lot of the antifascist groups in the US who directly fuck with fascists seem to keep an extremely low profile because they probably understand that NO ONE is going to help them or keep them safe (probably from direct experience) but the amount of naivete some DSA chapters and other leftist groups I've seen around me show is honestly jarring. Like the DSA near me has an instagram with people's faces and shit, and a local antifa news guy frequently posts pic of himself and his dog....

It's like they bought the narrative that the USA is this democracy with respect for "both sides" when the Reinhol killing should have made it very clear what the deal is...