CStink2002 t1_iu1p7r9 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 10:07 PM

Reply to comment by SilverNicktail in What Really Happened at the Penn State Protest Against Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes by bythesea_man

And this protest just gave them validation and national attention. They are both actually happy with the result. Whether the protestors are on the right moral side or not is irrelevant to the fact that the result is conflicting with their purpose. It's like someone threatens to damage your house and you burn it down before they have a chance to. Good work. Best result would have been to ignore it and let those few people have their little party in anonymity.

SilverNicktail t1_iu1z18n wrote on October 27, 2022 at 11:22 PM

Pretty sure being a terrorist group with members convicted of sedition for that time they attempted to trap and execute lawmakers got them a lot more attention than being told to piss off on a University campus.

CStink2002 t1_iu5stfg wrote on October 28, 2022 at 7:34 PM

And?...You realize businesses run commercials more than once for a reason, right? Do you think there may be a reason why they spend gobs of money to run a national commercial several times? Why not just run 1 if the subsequent viewings are irrelevant?

Their viewership (especially Alex Stein) and subscriptions will rise more because of this than it would have if they were just ignored. They dangled a hook and worm in front of people, and they took it.

One of the main messages they push is freedom of speech is under attack and they used the protesters as pawns to demonstrate it.