>mfw using a gas bomb while standing upwind and having to retreat.
I remember a while back in one of the previous Ameripol threads we had a hilarious discussion on the combat effectiveness of the various extremist groups in the USA and Spanish Civil War, I can't remember who said it but one of the posters had the realization that they were arguing fervently for the cause that their side was capable of being efficient militants and terrorists - it echoed of Hitler facestab calculations in its insightful and absurd nature. I still maintain that the anarchists' successes were really just coasting on the communists better organized efforts, and were neither able to thwart the fascists or the communists owing to their poorly organized warbands, and maintain today's examples showcase the same issues, being much too much reliant upon having an overpowering mob capable of attacking individuals, but otherwise incapable of breaking the formations of any even slightly disciplined foes
Doing things like throw smoke bombs upwind is rather symbolic of the whole shooting your own foot out of ideological refusal to have a leader
That does raise an interesting question, why are you guys' Antifa anarchists and not communists like enlightened Yurop?
Idk, I guess anarchist mobs are the most thrill filled way to pretend you're doing something impactful, and while I hate to fall onto the "kids these days" arguments (mostly because I am technically a kid of these days, even though I'm a bit of an oldfag now), but nobody wants ot give up too much comfort to do anything nowadays, so going out wearing a mask and getting punched in the face is prob seen as near martyrdom to your average social media activist.
Aanyway, anarchists never actualy win anything themselves because too many of them actualy believe shit can be won with enough loud noises, bombs and sticks. They have no concept of cultural warfare, something communists and fascists are exceptionaly capable at. In the end they get manipulated and used as a club by the group that can more easily seduce them, then get dispersed/arrested/fuckmurdered when they become more of a hindrance than a useful tool.
But here's the thing, antifa nowadays are more capable of non directed spontaneous action then ever before, since we have the interwebs and instant communication is a thing, but what exactly does that mean for conflicts such as these? One could say it means that angry mobs can become a constant thing without real directed and well designed efforts into creating such angry mobs, creating an conflict environment without any real leaders.
That is, until one of those shows up, takes advantage of the situation and uses it as leverage for whatever end, and due to antifa's hatred of actual leadership and organization, this means that one leader can pop into any side and take advantage of a conflict, a game in which they are the only real conscious player in.
There's worse things that can happen out of this other than memes and people getting punched.
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