GarbageShoot

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

nor is it to "de-Nazify" Ukraine

I think they do want to do this, since the Nazis are extremely hostile to Russia, so it's crushing the opposition. Obviously this is pretty different from the historical de-Nazification efforts whose corpse Putin cynically puppets as cover for his actions.

If there are meaningful factions of Greater Russia Nazis in Ukraine, he'd obviously be fine with those as he is fine with them in Russia.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

I think there are multiple things one can complain about, I was simply objecting to your minimizing one of them. I think even within that modified statement there is malicious (or perhaps self-victimizing) mischaracterization, but I don't feel like arguing about the other statements as others can probably do just as good a job and have more enthusiasm than I do for endlessly re-addressing the same complaints, which increasingly feels to me like the main dealing Hexbear has with liberal comms.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

I have no interest in debating the broader issue, but your bolding here is silly:

Even without talking about possible links with CCP, Kremlin etc…

The idea of us being connected to either group is a harebrained conspiracy theory, so I think speaking of it as though it is credible while saying you won't talk about it is classic apophasis, i.e. a rhetorical device for making insinuations about something you want to denigrate while dodging responsibility for doing so.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Frequently they blame ""communist"" politicians for letting the immigrants in

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't you know that Stalin owned the whole Soviet Union?!? blob-no-thoughts

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

I don't see what the Zionist entity has to do with this, it's not like they claim to be communist (though that would be a funny bit). I was talking about your reference to "dictator states" since Cuba surely is one of them, being communist.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I wish you wouldn't believe what those very plutocrats you disavow tell you about Cuba.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

tl;dr: You're deeply disingenuous and talking to you is a waste of time.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maybe spend . . . more time getting a sense of humor

It wasn't a joke

Never believe that [reactionaries] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [reactionaries] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

I called it! Though I suppose it was plain enough by the time I came across it.

Faux-populist rhetoric is not a Marx thing and Magats are absolutely not opposed to big business. It's like Trump's only thing that he's a billionaire due to real estate and other related fields.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Have I finally met that unicorn of perfect ignorance for whom the "Trump Is a Leninist" thinkpieces were written for? I'm just dying to know what part of Marx is used by Republicans!

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

No need to resort to incoherent name-calling.

Russia invaded Ukraine, but war is not genocide, as much as the banderite government likes to turn everything into genocide to minimize their history of the original Banderites and other collaborators perpetrating the actual Holocaust.

If Russia wanted to carry out the war in a way that involved genocide, just carpet-bombing cities or things like that, it absolutely could, it has maybe the second or third strongest air force in the world. Luckily for everyone involved (other than perhaps frontline Russians), Russia knows that it shouldn't do that, and so it isn't.

I don't see why you feel the need to so readily call people who disagree with you fascists. I don't think you're a fascist, I just think you're a well-meaning individual who was tricked by the PR of a liberal-fascist alliance. What would make me a fascist? I certainly don't like Russia, I don't have some fantasy of the Eurasian peninsula united under the Russian Federation. I'm not here to tell you that Putin is a good guy, he's a mafioso like you see at the head of most liberal states. I've got no problem with people speaking Ukrainian, though I sure wish they'd find a better national hero than, it must be repeated, a literal perpetrator of the Holocaust, but I also think those weirdos in Russia who worship the pogromist Tsar Nicholas II should get a better idol as well. Please, tell me what kind of fascist I am.

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