Leftists Whoring for Putin Thread

[bigrebnc1775]

Pro-Soviet. They mourn the USSR.

Thanks for the correction.

 

[daveman]

Thanks for the correction.

 

[Ropey]

Toro has gigabytes of sex tapes with George Galloway and a bull.

 

[Toro]

These pseudo-leftists — sometimes called “tankies,” a name deriving from an earlier generation of Western leftists who backed the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 — also defend Russia’s behavior today. Other commentators like Gilbert Achcar and Dan La Botz have explained this crowd’s origins in detail, but the key element in the tankie mindset is the simple-minded assumption that only the U.S. can be imperialist, and thus any country that opposes the U.S. must be supported. As author and human rights activist Leila Al-Shami put it several years ago, “The pro-fascist left seems blind to any form of imperialism that is non-western in origin. It combines identity politics with egoism. Everything that happens is viewed through the prism of what it means for westerners — only white men have the power to make history.”​

Don’t Be a Tankie: How the Left Should Respond to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Those who don’t stand in solidarity with the oppressed cannot call themselves leftists.

theintercept.com

 

[Toro]

How to be a tankie

 

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[Toro]