Really amazing that there's all these libs wringing their hands about the optics of the LA protests when "the optics of the LA protests" are literally this
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@julieofthespirits keep in mind that much of the wringing of the hands over optics is not about how cool the picture may look, but about the impact the picture may have over the long run strategically.
Even if a picture is totally rad, if it harms the effort because it's used as propaganda directed towards swaths of the population that aren't engaged, that's worth wringing over.
And that's the case here.
We can complain all we want that this is the reality, we can criticize media, we can criticize normies for being normies, etc, but in the end it is the reality.
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Not really, because there's a dogmatic impulse to claim anything the speaker themselves haven't come up with is absolutely detrimental to the effort, no matter what is, speculatively according speaker's Theory of Change.