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/AKM/ - Guns, weapons and the art of war.

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Not reporting is bourgeois


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Black bloc is a well-established tactic where participants wear a simple, affordable uniform to make identification difficult for law enforcement. Wearers may extend it with basic safety gear in riot police are likely to be present with "less lethal" weapons. For example, motorcycle helmets, protective goggles, gloves.

One of the disadvantages of black bloc is it can visually alienate the protestors from non-participants. It becomes easier for mass media to frame them as scary outsiders, like professional criminals or terrorists, not regular members of society. Another issue is that basic safety gear is compatible but not implied, so having a uniform including this gear by default could make protestors safer.

I wonder if worker PPE is a viable alternative uniform. Is this an idea which has been tried? Surely I can't be the first to propose this. It's familiar, suggests the wearer has a vital worker role in society, and is capable of providing some level of protection by design. I'm not familiar with the different-but-similar yellow vest protests so I don't know whether there are any media optics vulnerabilities to be aware of or any other issue which came up there.

I mean its much more practical but any amount of preparation made by protesters short of dumb lib shit like lying down on the fucking floor will be spun as ebil outside agitators, literally anything short of feckless lib shit will. That being said what you suggest has the benefits of blac bloc tactics with all the benefits of actual PPE equipment, maybe the anti-paparrazi fabric used by celebrities could be added in as well and may even make sneaking around the cityscape much easier.

Wearing protection at protests is illegal in Germany. The term is Passivbewaffnung, being passively armed. Police can beat you up without provocation on your part, aside from the provocation of being "armed". The press will then report that the police had a conflict with "armed" protestors. Then you can look at the commentary by boomers on social media as well as by reputable mainstream pundits saying in unison that it's sensible for the police to defend itself and the public against violent protestors.


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