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That’s a lot of words to say nothing and link no sources to the only claim you made so far…

And you can’t because, just like everyone else, you’re making it the fuck up.

I’m so done engaging with people like you

Then I’ll ask you the same:

Show me links of these alleged Putin-loving communists. I’ve already been waiting for house lol

You were so right, I totally misread the comment. Thank you for pointing it out

I do love that (which is why I engage with this type of things).

But now, keep imaging the scene:

It’s still the chemistry forum. The chemistry field has been attacked by western anti-chemistry propaganda for almost a century. The chemists in the audience put up a sign at the entrance with a bunch of FAQs and beginner’s friendly questions.

I ignore all of that and demand an answer that I could have easily gotten answered online. But I’m doing all of this in bad faith. I just want an example of the evil chemists telling me to leave because I couldn’t be bothered to be honest in my request nor I could be humble in my lack of knowledge on the topic.

When yours and my friend ask us about a topic we love, they do it honestly and looking for answers respecting the fact that they don’t know. And yet, for anything communist/socialist, most people don’t

What are you saying? That people who don’t have political science degrees shouldn’t participate in politics?

That’s not what I’m saying at all. If you argue in such bad faith and put words in my mouth I’ll stop replying.

I’m saying that just because you can google something, that is not the same as being knowledgeable about a topic. Especially when the topic is divisive and nuanced and you yourself admitted that you don’t know enough about the topic to not mix things up.

You seem to be holding yourself up as an authority, but I have no reason to think you are.

Same. I’m just anothet online idiot. But I’m not pretending to know topics I’ve not actually read upon

Your assertion was you can’t have an authoritarian communist. I gave a counter example of Stalin, an authoritarian communist. You seem unwilling or unable to refute that Stalin was authoritarian.

Oof, I see a bunch of misunderstanding here. Re read the thread and I’ll be happy to engage with you (as long as you don’t put more words I didn’t say into my mouth please lol)

No, I can’t reply to your question. Beacuse it gets asked EVERY SINGLE TIME here. It has been replied to ad nauseam, and not only on Lemmy.

I never said Google is bad. But why do you think that’s enough?

Can you imagine how pointless, arrogant and entitled it would be for me, someone who has (as an example) no knowledge about chemistry, to go to a chemistry forum and ask an elementary question on an incredibly divisive topic within the chemistry field?

Why do you think having a surface level knowledge of political science and a quick scan from a google search is enough for such complex topics then?

Cool. Can you answer my question then? What opponents?

And more importantly, if you can’t honestly type an answer to this without asking google, why do you think you have enough knowledge on this topic in general? Maybe you could look more into that instead?

Since you really liked to use this with me in a previous comment…

Stay mad troll!

Changing topic when cornered, I see

No, that’s not what I’m arguing. You just can’t read well.

Also, what opponents? Name them since you’re such an expert

Do you have links then? Or any actual proof to show what you’re saying?

I’ll wait

Edit: I am still waiting for a link or anything about these alleged Putin-loving communists

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Exactly what I was referring to… A bunch of the same old tired talking points that you’ve never actually bothered to look into.

"The US has basically lied since its founding, but they would NEVER lie to ME about Stalin or the USSR. And I know this because I saw a whole tiktok video once and a meme that said “commie bad”

No you haven’t.

You have seen people who are against US imperialism having a wide set of opinions on the conflict. But no communists support Putin. He’s a bigoted reactionary.

You only think that because you’ve never engaged with them and because you’re not used to having nuance in conversations

Edit: Massive typo

Yeah, communist authoritarianism is not a thing.

You’re thinking of literal fascist anti-communist propaganda and using a very basic knowledge of anything leftist/communist-related to fill-in the rest

Why don’t you define “tankie” or authoritarianism before, then? Instead of just sharing a silly meme and acting as if that was an explanation.

What even is communist authoritarianism? Lol

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You’re literally spamming anti-tankie memes everywhere on Lemmy in the last hour. You can’t also try to act as if you weren’t touched by this hahaha

Troll

Do these people exist or are they just strawmen? I’ve not really ever encountered so-called “tankies”.

They’re strawmen. If you look at this user’s profile, you see that they’re just a troll, waiting to get banned for going on ML instances and basically begging to be banned so that we can all see “how evil the evil commies truly are”.

Every left leaning person I’ve actually met are against authoritarianism.

And so are “tankies”. It’s just that people are unwilling to have nuanced and complex conversations. And instead of really engaging with different ideologies, a lot of people just result to name calling

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