NOT Riots, peaceful protests

Absolutely should not matter if the event was peaceful or not. From Vicky Osterweil’s book In Defense of Looting:

"Rioters Hurt the Media Coverage, They Make Us/Our Concerns Look Bad”

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No matter how peaceful and “well-behaved” a protest is, the dominant media will always push the police talking points and the white supremacist agenda. Although it can sometimes be leveraged strategically, the mass media is the enemy of liberation, and when we shape our actions to conform to its opinions or perspectives, we will always lose. If we riot, they will slander us. If we behave politely, peacefully, legally, they will simply return to ignoring us.

And in my view, this line in the sand that we see moderates draw for protests vs. riots is another example of capitulating to right-wing frameworks. Never ever give the right a single inch because they will always take a mile. The people who really are against the violence of capitalism will eventually understand that riots are the language of the oppressed. The rest will never be convinced no matter how hard you try until a better world becomes inescapable.

Nothing lol.

Don’t blame the soldiers.

The State is deploying National Guard troops on community members to defend ICE. I said nothing about assigning blame to anyone, but now that you mentioned it, I will emphatically blame National Guard members who follow this disgusting order. Otherwise, I don’t care about assigning blame to anyone at the moment.

citizens are the government though.

Did you mean that people in government are citizens? Because I’m a citizen of my country and not in the government.

if they are not, its not democratic country

Correct. The United States is not a democracy. It’s barely even a “representative democracy”.

no government shall bare arms against its own citizens

Is this some kind of quote? Because 90% of what all governments do is exactly that: using weapons against their own citizens.

Raddle is very post-left. For example:

Anarchists are not leftists, we side with neither monarchy nor republic, dictatorship nor democracy, free market capitalism nor state capitalism. We stand for anarchy. The absolute negation of all authority, including both wings of government.

Like I would argue that the items to the left of the bolded text make anarchists leftists, in the sense that we claim to support (and do support) non-hierarchical modes of living as the classical Left claims to do as well. Of course any serious left-wing anarchists do not want to replicate the left wing of the State. But making that critique and rejecting left unity where it conflicts with our anarchist values does not mean that we’re not leftists and that there’s nothing to be learned from classical Left literature.

So I would assume that the bias is towards the classical Left. Which…I think that the original FAQ is pretty critical of the classical Left? But a shorter FAQ for outsiders or classical-Left-averse people is still incredibly useful IMO.

WTF is with all these downvotes?!? Y’all need to read this: https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/