Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said during a Saturday press conference there are believed to be “no survivors” from Friday’s powerful explosion at the Accurate Energetic Systems facility in Tennessee. He did not confirm how many fatalities there were, but he previously said 18 people were missing on Friday.
Accurate Energetic Systems specializes in the “development, manufacture, handling, and storage of a diverse array of energetic products and explosives for military, aerospace, and commercial demolition markets,” according to its website. The Associated Press reported that the company has sold to and had been awarded military contracts with the U.S. Army and Navy.
The powerful explosion at the facility occurred early Friday around 7:45 am local time, and was felt more than 15 miles away.
Yeah no shit Sherlock, that’s why we need to turn our guns on the empire, on the capitalist class, on the rulers of 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇱 and every other State, on this vocal minority of power hungry monsters who explicitly refuse to be reasoned with and shoot them until they’ve been reduced to paste. I am 1000% with you on the necessity of political violence. Burning these systems of oppression to the fucking ground is the bare minimum 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
But these weapons were never going to be allowed to fall into our hands. These were defense contractors for the empire. These were the weapons that would be deployed on us.
Yeah that’s fine for ordinary people, but the United States has no right to “speak”, no right to carry any “stick”, big or otherwise, and no right to even fucking exist. 🏴🏴🏴🏴
And replace this civilization with what?
If you think the USA has no right to exist then neither does any other country on the planet. They all have bloody pasts.
Exactly! 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Yeah but the United States has a particularly influential bloody past, and a bloody present and future. I.e. the United States is the most dangerous enemy of humanity in recent memory, for example the Indigenous genocide, structuring an entire society around white supremacy, American imperalism and war all around the world, the climate catastrophe we are forcing upon the world, and the cyberpunk technofeudalist dystopia our tech bros are forcing all of humanity to submit to.
Yea either expected a anarchist or tankie reply lol
Anarchist are delusional kids who think everyone is going to magically work together.
I literally was spamming black flag (🏴) emojis, I literally have a Circle-A as the top banner on my profile, “anarchist” is the literal first word in my bio…of course I’m an anarchist 😆
That assumption is neither sufficient nor necessary for anarchism to work. We don’t need absolutely everyone to magically work together all the time. We can handle our disagreements without establishing systems of domination over others. If anything, these systems of domination simply amplify existing disagreements.
So when you have a “disagreement” and the other side says fuck you, what’s your plan?
Depends on the nature of the disagreement and the reasonability of the other side. Preferred solutions are, in decreasing order of preference:
We’re at the bottom bullet point with respect to capitalists. We’ve been at the bottom point since capitalism was established, because it was established through violence and has been a continuous source of violence against humanity. But for most other problems, the other possibilities are better alternatives.
When push comes to shove we’re just gonna have to play it by ear, as has always been the case, but anarchism provides a framework to rule out certain possibilities because they do not reflect the future we desire (i.e. prisons, police, states, standing armies, etc.) and therefore are ineffective methods for bringing about a liberatory future.
You’re at the bottom, but don’t want to be armed… I’ll ask again how the fuck do you plan on telling the other party to fuck off if the other party is armed and you have just strong words…