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If you're under the age of 25 please shut up & listen to your elders about the history of the past 10-15 years in terms of political scene development. And by elder I don't mean "boomer" I mean people from 26 - 38.
Exceptions will be made for those young folks who been paying attention since they were 12. Welcome to the club, you get to participate in eras you have memory of, this isn't an attack on age, its an attack on newfound consciousness disconnected from the struggles that came be4
Wild, absolutely wild that Will's tankie thread still making rounds. Folks not realizing it went viral cuz it unified a bunch of different sections of anarchists on here to pretty much say "yeah, Will's right. This tracks." THAT is what pisses the tanks off, consensus by people
who don't necessarily agree on everything. But it spoke to all of us cuz we fucking experienced this shit. When we say, "this tankie shit is new" we mean, yes its very fucking new. We don't mean you ML professor, we don't mean ANSWER, we don't mean the newspaper guy. We're talkin
about a development of campist, uninformed, edgy takes that make a mockery out of anti-imperialism & are enabled & exacerbated by bad faith actors (Grayzone) & toxic online communities. Sorry Zoomers but before social media you learned about the left from physical spaces &
protests. You had to actually go out and meet people, and debate people & have them challenge your preconceived notions of the world. The internet doesn't make you do that, you can just slap on an identity like a sleeve from Altered Carbon. You don't learn shit from the web, you
need to actually connect with IRL spaces. And yes, it will shock you that 90% of the scene is some kind of anarchist, most undefined as the scene's been for the past 20 to 30 years or so. Because nebulous nonsectarian radicalism rooted in anti-auth, anti-cap values has been
the character of the contemporary left since the fall of the Berlin Wall. So please children, you're letting bad faith douchebags manipulate you into targeted harassment & gamergater behavior for a sense of belonging. Stop being an internet asshole for 5 secs &
realize your world is fake. Everything you learned about radical politics in the past 5 years from online only sources has been bullshit. You need to experience the real scene. This goes for everyone who's educating themselves online, y'all need to stop & talk to elders asap.
