Street protests are like a skinny-dipping party in a pond full of leeches

[gulliver]

You can do it, but...leeches.

The Internet has ruined street protests, imo. Your AR-15ers and anger-holics and got-no-lifers and criminals now see them as someplace they want to be. The Internet spreads the scent, and those types just home in. Pretty soon it's just another cluster, an own goal, lossage for whatever good it might have had.