Yeah, I feel like a lot of arguments like OP is coming from non-americans who don’t understand how to organize from scratch, with paranoid people, and neighbors you can’t really get to know because everybody’s on a yearly lease.

Like, okay, sure I’ll go punch a cop. Then I get shot, and my death is supposed to… make a magic anime shimmer and lift the evil from the land? Going on strike without a union is just called getting fired.

I don’t understand how direct action is supposed to work if we don’t build the community first?