At least when the target is generally regarded as evil by 90% of people. Just look at the front page of reddit, it's wall to wall shitting on UHC and being oddly supportive of violence for civility liberals (i'm assuming the astroturfers don't have a coherent line yet)

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    Otherwise known as propaganda of the deed.

    Although without a larger political project to take advantage of this energy it will just dissipate and be memory holed.

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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      17 days ago

      Although without a larger political project to take advantage of this energy it will just dissipate and be memory holed.

      Yep, command of the economic heights means control of the governing and societal superstructure

    • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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      17 days ago

      Furthermore, there's the potential for these ghouls to simply hire a ton of security, etc. Now, against a true mass movement no amount of security will save you, but there's going to be diminishing returns on this kind of action very fast.