Eneasz

It was bizarre.

It made me feel again like I have absolutely no social awareness or acumen.

This is a stupid way to win a stupid game.

It didn't work perfectly.

We didn't have any structure or leadership, no one had foreseen this, so there wasn't any way to actually coordinate the cordon.

Only like, four, of us actually did this, entirely ad hoc.

I'm frankly surprised it was enough.

Also we were actually interested in the speeches, so we didn't keep a sharp eye on the hecklers and a couple of them edged around to get close to the speech givers.

They continued to shout heckles between lines of the speeches.

At least once I turned around to nudge someone back again, and I heard the ominous line of don't touch me.

There's a small spike of adrenaline that comes with those words when you realise they are a warning that we're on the verge of an escalation that can only benefit them.

All in all it was poorly executed, like if a gay pride march had Fred Phelps with a God hates fags sign edging into every photo of the final speech, while yelling slurs between lines from ten feet away.

9.

How'd it go?

IMO the March had a couple problems.

The first was that there was no unified message.

Ostensibly it was about the California Billionaire Tax Act confiscating 5% of billionaire net worth.

And yes, that's fucking nuts.

There's an image here.

But that's a symptom of the real problem, which is breakdown of the social code.