Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective. A tankie is someone who
defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves
“socialist”. The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of
Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying
genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes
“true democracies”.
Colonists steal native land and rename it Massachusetts. Centuries of
exploitation, slavery, and war go by to establish white supremacist
authority in the region. Henry David Thoreau is born. He goes to live in
a shack his friend helped him build and his sister and mom helped him
finance. The property is owned and controlled privately and administered
by an evil slave-owning empire. His mom visits twice per week to give
him pies and clean his socks. He regularly goes into town to buy food
grown by exploited farm labor and probably slaves too.
Thoreau: "Ah, untapped, unspoiled nature. Living off the land and
writing fancy boy essays. I'm truly the master of my own destiny."
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