This ralley would have happened regardless of if Richard Spencer got punched or not. Don't be fucking naive.
Punching Nazis recently resulted in:
- Richard Spencer's career becoming more of a joke.
- Other rallies to get cancelled.
- The ACLU changing their stances on supporting Nazis ability to gather.
- White supremacist organizations suddenly "Bowing out" of upcoming rallies.
And probably plenty of other benefits that aren't even coming to mind at the moment.
If punching Spencer and the #resistance posting Captain America memes is what killed the alt-right momentum even among the far-right, despite the fact it couldn't, by his own admission, in half a years time stop this or any of his major rallies, then not only is posturing about political violence completely just, NeoGAF are heroes!
On the other hand, if it was because a series of self-sabotages which justifies them immediately being purged from various services on the internet, including committing a fucking Islamist-style terrorist attack (read: political violence), then NeoGAF had nothing to do with it at all.
I wonder which of these is more likely.