You’re out of your depth.

The recurring issue that you and other wannabe critics of anarchism keep stumbling into is a discursive closure that renders the distinctions necessary to grasp the theory unintelligible. If you refuse to understand the difference between authority, expertise, and reputation, that is your limitation.

But at no point did I oppose expertise. I argued that the existence of positions empowered to cage, judge, and compel others creates incentives that attract those who seek to abuse others. Somehow you heard "expertise is bad." Obviously a forensic investigator, engineer, or doctor can contribute their knowledge or guidance without possessing the right to command. The existence of specialists does not automatically imply the existence of authorities. And there are valid critiques to be made of prestige and social capital, including how they may shield people from consequences, but they do not in and of themselves confer authority. Also, at no point did I advocate "community self-policing." Policing is only a coherent concept in the context of a legal order, and I established that anarchy is alegal.

Your understanding of anarchist revolution is also flawed. "If we have to figure out how to create authority-less post-revolution society before the revolution, then it will never start." That’s not what prefiguration is about. Prefiguration means recognising that the imperfect methods, institutions, and relationships through which we struggle will shape the world that emerges from that struggle. The process of creating non-authoritarian social relations is itself part of the revolutionary process of eliminating capitalism. I am not postponing revolution, I simply recognise that prefiguration is concurrent with confrontation as aspects of revolution as an ongoing process.

I also never claimed that we ought to take a restorative approach to our current rulers. You’re fighting ghosts and thereby missing the point I was making, including that unlike the person I was responding to, I don’t think all killing is disproportionate.

And you’ve seemingly attributed to me a romantic view of community that I do not hold. I have written in the past about how communities can be conformist, exclusionary, abusive, and oppressive, in my video on Community. And I’ve critiqued the belief in rehabilitation as a default response to certain forms of harm in my video on Bad People. I don’t expect you to know all my positions, but what I find striking about your response is its profound incuriosity. You don’t bother to ask any clarifying questions, you just fill in the blanks with assumptions inherited from your own framework and critique the resulting caricature.