It's both tactically and narratively very smart.
They're deadly, they're destructively loud, they can plow through police car barricades, small numbers of people can use them to obstruct large swaths of roadways, & they deceive people into reading fascism as a workers' struggle.
They're deadly, they're destructively loud, they can plow through police car barricades, small numbers of people can use them to obstruct large swaths of roadways, & they deceive people into reading fascism as a workers' struggle.
https://twitter.com/benFranklin2018/status/1490026808888029186
The "small numbers" bit is critical, btw, because it isn't *actually* a worker struggle.
It isn't a mass movement, or even an industrial movement.
But trucks take up so much more room than the bodies they actually have.
It lets them look populist, even though they aren't.
It isn't a mass movement, or even an industrial movement.
But trucks take up so much more room than the bodies they actually have.
It lets them look populist, even though they aren't.
And let's not forget that vehicular assault/murder is a very popular tactic that the far right in the US and Canada has already deployed repeatedly against POC, women (incels love this tactic), and protests.
And let's not forget that it's rarely prosecuted.
And let's not forget that it's rarely prosecuted.
When antivaxxers (self-admittedly and on camera) used a car to run over and drag a counter-protesting Black comrade a full city block, police told him they'd doxx him to a Proud Boy associate if he pursued the matter.
https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1259186981420118019
Antifascists have been warning for a long, long time that the vehicular murder of Heather Heyer at Unite the Right in 2017 was not a one-off.
I doubt it will be long before we see the tactics of fascist vehicular occupation and fascist vehicular assault merge on a large scale.
I doubt it will be long before we see the tactics of fascist vehicular occupation and fascist vehicular assault merge on a large scale.
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