If you think these people are gamer geeks doing real-life role playing, you're deluding yourself with an unfounded desire to marginalize them as a non-threat. The core of these groups are not bored junior college kids living in their parents' basements. They're hard-core anarchists and communists that belong to hard-core anarchist and communist organizations. Their goal is sowing sufficient mayhem and political upheaval to allow the violent overthrow of the US and state governments. Peel back the layers on who they are and you find a half-dozen or more anarchist and communist organizations underlying them, most of which have been around for some years now.Took this quote from the Insane Social Justice thread. It was in regards to role playing video games, but the similarity is pretty clear...
"The whole joy of an open world game is to do anything, specifically things you would never do in real life - like kill with reckless abandon. Nothing's going to pull you out of that gameplay faster than some invisible fence guarding "socially unacceptable behavior"."
Fortunately most gamers don't act on their fantasies in real life, but I wonder what percentage of ANTIFA are gamers that have decided to take it up a notch...
John