![]() That, and they had the Suez crisis to deal with. Hungary had been decided by both East and West to be part of the “Eastern bloc”, and thus the western powers had no intention of getting involved. The legitimate leaders of Hungary were imploring the world for help, and the invasion ticked every box next to the “foreign invasion” category of warfare.Īlas, no help would be coming. An urgent call went out on the radio for assistance of any kind from any nation, for Hungary was under attack. Then, on November 4th, 1956, Soviet troops stormed across the border. As Hungarians continued to move away from the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, Soviet troops began massing on Hungary’s borders. ![]() Hungarians of all stripes supported the move, but unfortunately the Soviet leaders in the Kremlin had other intentions. In 1956, after much discussion, deliberation, and several attempts to head problems off at the pass (so to speak), Hungary declared its intent to break free of the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact. Question: What is a tankie? What do you mean when you say “tankies GTFO”? I also believe that it’s possible to support civil rights leaders while also being critical of certain pieces of their ideology. So, here’s exactly what I mean when I say someone is a “tankie” or “tankies GTFO.” I do NOT believe “all communists are tankies” or that “tankie and communist are synonyms.” I have never even slightly said I believe that, but straw men are far easier to destroy. I do not have a middle option where I can ban someone without hiding their comments as well. I only ban people, which automatically hides any comment made by that person. As is and always has been my mode of operations with the page, I have been banning any and all commentors who make false assumptions and wild accusations, or are only here for shit-stirring and nothing else. It quickly became clear that this was another instance of a bigoted group being offended at being called out for their bigotry, with a heaping dash of “apparently tankie has different meanings to different people” mixed in. I then shared a post saying, “tankies GTFO” and it predictably spiraled and blew up, because tankies are the children shitting in the sandbox of the left. On Friday, a community member shared a post from Anarcha-transfeminism (a self-proclaimed tankie page, from what i can tell) about Joseph Stalin, and asked me my thoughts, as Anarcha-transfeminism had previously shared one of my posts about confederate statues. hell, who even knows, and continues to be getting some serious attention from commies and tankies and leftists alike, it seems like a good idea to 1. “Since apparently my saying “tankies GTFO” was the hottest take since…. Here is one of the more recent posts from Vellum and Vinyl in that regard from Jan 2. While all those particular philosophies, like all philosophies can be rightly questioned and criticized, the left takes personal offence when a liberal who begs people to buy their merchandise on Amazon, is the one doing so. ![]() With those shares come Anarchists and Communists among Leftbook, nearly all of whom preach intersectionality.īut for the past week it has become beyond clear that the left is not welcome in their space, as Vellum and Vinyl has made their mission to attack “tankies”, or more commonly known as Marxists, Marxists-Leninists, Stalinists, Maoists, etc with some terrible neoliberal rhetoric. ![]() At 127K followers, they have been known for a while for mostly sharing Tumblr screenshots, though of decent social aspects that get passed among Leftbook from time to time. Facebook page Vellum and Vinyl is one of those exact sites. There are plenty of problematic sites on social media, yet the worst ones seem to be the ones who pretend to be Intersectional.
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