I generally find that I can't hold conversations with Democrats for the same reason I can't hold conversations with Zionists. They are really living in an alternate reality

"How do you feel now that Trump is calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians"

that question only makes sense on the premise that Biden didn't call for and commit ethnic cleansing!

nobody at the level of power we say we're aiming to contest - who could launch an ICBM, capital strike, or planetary scale disinformation campaign - is worried about the fine details of our lil critiques, or precisely what kind of socialist/anarchist/anti-imperialist is frowning at them. be serious.

Wow! This feels like an entirely new world!

The only way to deal with institutions commuting crime is the same way you deal with people who commit crimes: you either impose costs on them so they reverse course (crippling or seizing their resources), or forcefully apprehend them. No amount of appealing to words on paper is going to stop them

This doesn't mean you ought to automatically go out and start throwing Molotov cocktails at the nearest officer you see. However people ought to be willing to take illegal measures to stop the crimes of the state, such as collectively withholding taxes.

Left-sympathizers are still informed by a hierarchical morality that is deliberately constructed to serve the state, where violence committed by the state is seen as legitimate or justified, whereas violence committed by regular folk against the state is barbaric and unjustified.