Do you feel like Antifas are playing pretend? Like they can assault and dox people, but when the shoe's on the other foot they bitch and moan.
I said this in a another thread today, but my theory is Antifa, like every other position or guise transgenders take, is defined only by their absolute extreme elements. This is done because neither are actually coherent worldviews or ideas that they could individually articulate or defend, they are manufactured political organizations where everyone has a self-understanding of a shared identity. The people shooting ICE agents and celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder basically defined Anitfa's intent for all the LARPers and casual travellers - yes, you are now a terrorist organization on American soil. And they have to follow through somehow, or be exposed as fake - like their gender identity.
So now you have a 'resistance' group largely comprised of people who literally do this to avoid consequences or think about reality facing a real force that
has to take them seriously. They were nothing without the Biden government's indulgence, or the media's silence, or the fake Nazis they could pull out of a hat. They're just maladjusted, spoiled stunted losers who wanted to feel power, led into this by the criminally insane.
Before I thought about this idea, I thought they would have simply bailed the fuck out while talking smack, but I realise they actually can't do it. They have to be edgy retards because not doing so betrays the false political character that their self-wroth is defined by.
So yes, many of them are pretending up to the point where they can't pretend.