Yeah, that checks out.

Yeah, that does look like a modern answer to the Black Army tachankas. Looks pretty neato, TBH. Look, I’m a proud tankie, I love old Soviet equipment, but this kinda stuff is cool in a totally different way and has its uses.

This explains a lot, tbh. I also have noticed I have a lot of trouble explaining things I haven’t engaged with basic principles of in a while.

I think I definitely spent time around shitty groups that discouraged good faith questions when I was learning the basics of what an ML is, that’s likely.

You aren’t a real tankie unless you’ve been on a Soviet tank crew!

I’ve always imagined anarchists still running the tachankas the Black Army came up with, but something a little more modern but still simple and attainable does track.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a thing that exists. And I’d totally listen to it while playing political sim games and pretending to know anything about actual leftist organising and plotting revolution IRL.

Perhaps. Unless you ask the wrong way and it’s presumed to be asking in bad faith. Or ask in the wrong space. Or think you know and then say something really silly because of your misunderstanding.

Get those anarkiddies a stolen American armored truck, gotta give 'em something so they don’t run off with our neat Soviet tanks!

Yeah, I hear ya, I do like to have a book in my hands (or at least text on a handheld screen) if I’m trying to internalise all the information in my first read through.

But I do tend to use listening to theory when I want to drift off from it and just want the effects of having to listen to something that dense, with the understanding that doing that as a sleep aid or for other emotional or physical effect is not a replacement for listening attentively or actually reading it.

“You people are all liberals, I’m the only true commie!”

“We want a world so far left, it makes Stalin look like a liberal!”

There’s a “western commies are all Soviet plants” or “all communists actually come from the USSR” joke in there somewhere.

I typically use communist theory for that. I’m gonna have to reread it a few times anyway, after all.

so many new terms you have to digest and hope that they get explained.

Oh, so it’s a lot like reading communist theory for the first time without a lot of ideological background and historical context. Or wandering into your average tankie space where someone’ll bite your head off for not knowing what some very specific ML theory or Soviet governance term or abbreviation means.

That is consistent with what I’ve observed, and useful, thanks comrade.

So it’s a context thing with a little guesswork… I am either too old for this, at a very young age mind you, or too neurodivergent for this.

We’re on Hexbear. We’re all tankies here, lol.

Blue tits, neat!

An excellent all purpose reaction for good stuff!

I don’t even know what “Maoist Standard English” is at this point, but all the other commies seem to love it, and getting niche terminology exactly correct is definitely a Thing leftists tend to insist on, so I suppose I have to use it and hope I do it right…