The Hungary schlock they refer to was of course a gladio-style CIA backed color revolution in which Hungarian fascist death squads were purging Jews, Roma, and Communists.
Awesome! Cool! Dope!
Huh, reading the comments…
TIL that The Intercept’s founder, billionaire Pierre Omidyar, funded the Ukrainian coup in 2014
No, we don’t. We use materialist analysis to see WHY Putin is doing what he’s doing, but I suppose that’s “defending behavior” to these dipshits.
“You’re either with us or you’re against us.” - The Bush Admin on the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
They will be using this war to further criminalise leftists in any way they can. They already have been trying to associate Putin and Modern Russia with the Soviet Union and Communism.
“Maybe there’s more to this than just ‘Putin is insane’”
Fuck you. You might as well be tried at the Hague for war crimes.
Oh but you see, if you can explain how the gas chambers in Auschwitz worked, you’re obviously a nazi and you support industrialised mass murder.
What is this in reference to? Is there a misconception about the gas chambers I’m unaware of, or is this a dig at “being educated enough to recognise the reasons for war makes you an enemy.”
Tankie: Someone to the left of the official US bi-party who doesn’t believe every word the state department says.
Hating NATO =/= defending Putin
I was only a kid back when everyone wouldn’t shut the fuck up about Saddam Hussein but I guess it must have been a lot like this
It’s sort of close. I think the big difference between then and now is you can stay quiet now, but then if you didn’t actively suck off the administration you were in league with the axis of evil
That’s interesting because back then in the UK being against it was fucking easy but now if I’m not deepthroating Ukrainian dick I’m pro-russia apparently.
Don’t Be a Tankie
“Tankie” is a completely meaningless term, so no problem.
it is a slander leveled at anyone who talks about what the USA has been up to since 1776, but it is especially used against people who talk about US-backed fascist coups, or people who are willing to admit “controversial figures” on the left did anything good in their lives (usually Lenin and Stalin and Mao, but I’ve seen “tankie” even leveled at defenders of Thomas Sankara, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, or Evo Morales)
It is a slander aimed at anyone vaguely doing or saying anything correct that threatens the establishment.
It will evolve to antifa levels of uselessness. And anarchists who previously got called antifa will get called tankies when they protest anything even slightly militantly.
