not to mention that black bloc are usually experienced protesters who often try to protect the vulnerable from violent cops
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Replying to @jolenestarshine
property destruction and sabotage are not violence. Tear gas, flash-bangs, rubber bullets, water cannons, etc. are.
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so--I hadn't meant to take a normative stand, thread was meant to be purely positive! I'm happy to accept any definition...
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of violence that fits. And if some--say, 'unlawful'--tactic actually desired by main protest body, then my story doesn't
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Replying to @eigenrobot @jolenestarshine
really fit at all. RE cops, I expect them to be bad actors and maybe not possible to triangulate. But it might be nice if.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I think this is a sampling problem, in that your friends who you identify as lefties are not quite as left as us radicals
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Replying to @jolenestarshine
that's possible! I don't claim to understand the contours of any radical topography, I'm probably frightfully boring
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Replying to @eigenrobot @jolenestarshine
I only meant to relay a report, to the extent it is inaccurate or distasteful I apologize + repent
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thank you. I'm just tired of people moralizing about tactics when we have actual fascists and neonazis to deal with
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Replying to @jolenestarshine
no seriously. :( I had intended the thread not as critique but as apologia to a general audience, and I'm sorry I gave ...
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or rather sent a critical impression. Perils of writing even sympathetically about groups you're outside of :(
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