• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    In addition to other comments, they probably have some feeling that it intimidates potential protestors to be carrying a flaming stick.

    Maybe they are also going for causing a variation of the “suspension bridge effect” in their followers to be carrying and surrounded by dangerous objects.