• حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineOPEnglish
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      43 minutes ago

      My feeling in my heart is anarchist but a few real world things have happened to me that makes me see the golden path to anarchism paradoxically require the tanks

      1. All my “anarchist” (white) friends from growing up in the US either died young from the rot in that society transitioned into libertarians than conservatives as we got into our mid 40s. Oddly the trans issue is what seems to really radicalize them into fascism.
      2. Leaving the US and being afforded the ability to see what that society actually stands for from the outside.
      3. The white “anarchists” in the US so neatly fall into their cruel and inhuman system of global domination and appear to be their puppets. Their criticisms of it are always in favor of maintaining their comfort and status quo. Their hopelessness and fatalism serves its interests. It is obvious from here
      4. Watching the US destroy my family with tanks that were still living in Iraq and Iran
      5. Understanding how the COINTELPRO actually works. They don’t just fund Christian fundamentalism. They fund anything to distract people from class consciousness including modern art, liberalism, rap and hip hop, and even seemingly radical orgs like Direct Action Everywhere.
      6. Reading history. I don’t know how you can read Lenin and come to the conclusion that he was wrong
  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    So did this one 🏴🚩

    Although tbh, I’m honestly skeptical of the relevance of tanks in modern combat. Like with suicide drones running around…I don’t know if tanks are useful like they used to be.

    • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineOPEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      A tank can still accurately hit a building from 3 km away with high powered ordinance. While drones are for sure a problem, having a column of tanks roll up and shell your town is still a big problem.

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah, but … this might be my electrical engineering bias, but if I had a fixed budget to put into tanks or drones with explosives … I’d probably put more of the budget into drones with explosives. They’re easier and faster to reposition, safer for the pilot, easier to manufacture from consumer parts, easier to reconfigure for multiple uses, and more precise to control (e.g. I don’t think tanks can move sideways). I think consumer drones can do 3km now? Like tanks definitely do terrify capitalists, and I wouldn’t fault a comrade for building a tank if they have the parts … but so can drones if used for cool stuff.

        • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineOPEnglish
          41·
          2 hours ago

          That is a good point, the only thing I can think of and it might not even be a good point is that the supply chain for drone manufacturing is significantly higher tech which makes it possibly more difficult to maintain in a longer conflict. When drones get junked they may be impossible to repair where as a tank is a mechanical contraption that can be fixed in the field. Thinking it out I’m sure iron, oil and munitions are all huge barriers too so I don’t want to hand wave that away either