First off, I am well aware that media is corrupt and governments are corrupt and so are corporations so they'll all twist things against you. Let me get that out of the way.

So, there are two schools of thought when it comes to movements. One is to take a "fuck the optics, get shit done, they're going to lie about you anyway" approach, and another is "focus on the optics to win over as many independents as possible".

What I'm seeing with the trucker convoy, actually seems more like the latter.

When shitheads like Trudeau try to demonize the Trucker Convoy with far left buzzwords, you can simply ask these mainstream shills "WHERE IS THE PROOF?" because every single incident of it has been addressed. They have these press conferences and make sure a single message is being sent. That's why it's so easy to get information about them because it gets disseminated to us quickly without a media filter. A LOT of independents are being won over, even moderates who never had their skin in the game. Having a right wing media infrastructure also has been a tremendous boom to them.

GG initially started as a consumer revolt, and near the first two months of GG it had a focus on optics. Eventually the "muh optics" crowd ended up clashing with the "fuck the optics" crowd and the movement eventually dissipated, among for many other reasons (is it about GAEMS JOURNALIZM or is it actually about the far left and its march through the institutions? We know the answer, we knew it was going to happen) I remember a lot of optics shit near the first two months, adopting a sea lion, funding various charities, getting TFYC's Afterlife Empire published (turned out to be kind of a meh game), running hall monitor 'harassment patrols' on Twitter, etc.

But those all failed, which pretty much cemented the fuck the optics argument and to never bend the knee.

However, with the trucker convoy there does appear to be an attempt to maintain those optics. Lots of footage of comaraderie, denouncement of any forms of violence, kicking that retard who brought Nazi paraphenelia with him, etc.

Am I comparing apples to oranges here or is there some merit to the "optics" argument?