We do that well enough all on our own . However , with the amount we fuck with Russia it ' s almost naive to believe that they wouldn ' t counter it in some way . We have a propensity toward ' othering ' groups of people we don ' t understand , and it doesn ' t take much to kick that into overdrive . As an aside , somebody from Austin was mentioning the last time this group was being discussed that they ' re not holding this protest to be provocative , and the same group does this all the time with different causes . They ' re kind of a fixture in Austin so most people don ' t see them as menacing , it ' s more like a ' performance art ' protest . The media is trying to make it look like a socialist showdown though , which really shows you how the media likes to distort reality so that it keeps people on edge and tuned in .