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Life isn't a video game. People don't get to choose where they will be when some idiot decides to play hero of the revolution.
Also, the people who were showing up to start trouble were usually police agents or locals who thought that it would be fun to throw a rock at a cop. The IWW people knew more about police violence then you ever will; they were around before Miranda Rights and body cams. If they thought having a team there was a good idea, you should learn from them.
Like I said, it's not the person who throws the brick who gets the consequences, it's someone else. If you have the desire to walk up to a cop and slap them, go ahead. Don't expect other people to get hurt because of you.
You are acting as if police brutality and police murder are the fault of those that throw the first stone. Its not. Its not like peacefulness or being passive makes you safe from police brutality, because you have very limited control how the police as a whole and how individual cops actually act.
That mght be true in the time you are talking about, but currently rioting is a thing many people do and its shown to be effective. The George Floyd uprising was as big and powerful because of the rioting and not despite it.
This does not mean disregarding past experiences, but (to me seemingly) more recent experiences show the power of riots and the ways anarchists can show solidarity, especially in the context of the so call USA.
I also think calling for peacefulness when friends, families, colleges, neighbors, comrades get disappeared is just not what is needed in these circumstances and its also not stopping any of this.
First, look up Martin Luther King. He called for non-violence in a situation that was much worse, against a tougher foe.
Second, who made you leader? Who decided that you had the right to instigate violence? Because you keep ignoring my basic point, that it's not going to be the one who throws the brick who will get caught.
Wow, I was joking around when I proposed that you've been spending all your time pestering people to feel important, but you're really good for nothing else. This is pathetic. That's an easy block.
You are a very funny guy.