Love u too fam <| sep |> what did Adolf hitler not commit genocide ? is that just made u ? <| sep |> If the goal is a violent civil war to convert the country to socialism , power to you . Wear the masks and start shooting . But . If you want to convert a critical mass of Americans to leftofcenter politics you need to knock this mask thing off . Suppose I told you that your goal should be to get 30 % of America to self identify as socialist or socialist leaning . How would you approach that objective ? For starters we would concentrate on the parts of the message that are way more palatable to people who aren ' t so politically inclined . We would talk about cooperation , inclusion , education etc . we would not say the word seize . We would not imply a use of force . We wouldn ' t wear masks . We would in fact invite violent action against ourselves , because at the end we must appear selfless . I hate to make this comparison but the goal here needs to be MLK . We should coopt Norman Rockwell for our symbolism and ditch the soviet stuff . You will never convince regular Americans that anything best expressed through soviet style redblack screen printing is anything other than edgy kids being edgy . This is about people coming together and working on a better society together . Let people expose themselves by pushing YOU away , don ' t push them away by dressing like a damn terrorist . Unless your actually plan is violent revolution , which I see as a perfectly viable tactic but I ' m not seeing nearly enough shooting to believe that ' s what you want . For fucks sake , this was an antiNazi protest , any asshole in Iowa should have been able to see this on the news and say oh , those fucking Nazis , look at the nice people standing up to the Nazis , good for them ! Good for us ! Instead they ' d be saying wait , who ' s the Nazis in this image ? This looks to me like we ' re looking for an excuse to fail , we ' re making ourselves the enemy .