What in the mental gymnastics is your comment meant to be?
Your edit comes across as, “Oops, looks like I was trying to rage against someone without realizing we agree; better edit to add a subtle retraction. Oh, and I’d better add a whataboutism out of nowhere too.”
It’s a bit of that… Arguing on the internet is just easy to fall into so sorry if you feel hard done by in my figuring out we’re agreeing.
I’m also spread a bit thin because I’ve put a lot of comments out under this post, as I have strong opinions on being anti-tankie and anti-communist under American Capitalist Fascism/Trumpism.
But you do understand it makes you and yours look ridiculous - and is thus counterproductive - when you can’t help yourself (due to your stated strong opinions) but to participate in such bad faith, right?
Between that and the suspicion I have that you were implying the massacres would be more acceptable if they weren’t pro-communist protestors and it’s just one more anecdote of tankies having bizarre and unconscionable stances.
There’s a wide variety and storied history of anti-communist organization that acted as fronts or ways to recruit fascists. George Lincoln Rockwell was part of an anti-communist organization, lots of Ayn Randians fell into fascism, groups like the John Birch Society, or Willis Carto’s Liberty Lobby, the heritage foundation.
They are closely associated, I have every right to joke about it after you’ve misidentified me as a communist.
The choosing to complain about Tankies in the current era of Capitalist corruption and Trump style fascism can its self be interpreted as fascist leaning (contextually) or at the very least, tone def to the actual proportions of the world’s problems right now.
(tankies are proportionally invisible in all democracies).
The truth is anti-communism and fascism have a long and storied history - hell look at who the Nazis went after.
Pressing on after I apologized as if it’s a police investigation was its self a dick move. You wanted total demoralization by begging that I conceed further “see you were quacking like a Communist” after I clarified that I wasn’t one… and now you’re still here? We’re ONLY here because you couldn’t stop and let it go.
There’s a wide variety and storied history of anti-communist organization that acted as fronts or ways to recruit fascists.
True, but does not substantially support your argument that I’m a fascist.
They are closely associated, I have every right to joke about it after you’ve misidentified me as a communist (red scare style).
To say that my suspicion you could be a tankie (not a communist - because not all communists are tankies) is Red Scare shenanigans is a pretty clear overreaction. Let’s flip the script so you can see what I mean, starting with your ad hominem from earlier:
Imagine a thread where the Holocaust was being discussed.
Now imagine someone hopping in with the following out of nowhere:
“Did you know the nazis’ camps weren’t even illegal at the time? The Nuremberg Trials were convened explicitly because there was no law prohibiting their atrocities, and the term “crimes against humanity” and their subsequent trial ex post facto had no legal precedent! That’s not something most people know!”
… okay, sure, but… why insert that unless you’re a fact-bot spitting out random related facts or you’re a nazi? So if I mention that’s kinda suspicious and they blow their lid, does your suspicion of them increase or decrease?
Pressing on after I apologized as if it’s a police investigation was its self a dick move. You wanted total demoralization by begging that I conceed further “see you were quacking like a Communist” after I clarified that I wasn’t one… and now you’re still here? We’re ONLY here because you couldn’t stop and let it go.
Kinda rich to police my internet etiquette when you so happily embrace ad hominem.
What in the mental gymnastics is your comment meant to be?
Your edit comes across as, “Oops, looks like I was trying to rage against someone without realizing we agree; better edit to add a subtle retraction. Oh, and I’d better add a whataboutism out of nowhere too.”
It’s a bit of that… Arguing on the internet is just easy to fall into so sorry if you feel hard done by in my figuring out we’re agreeing.
I’m also spread a bit thin because I’ve put a lot of comments out under this post, as I have strong opinions on being anti-tankie and anti-communist under American Capitalist Fascism/Trumpism.
But you do understand it makes you and yours look ridiculous - and is thus counterproductive - when you can’t help yourself (due to your stated strong opinions) but to participate in such bad faith, right?
Between that and the suspicion I have that you were implying the massacres would be more acceptable if they weren’t pro-communist protestors and it’s just one more anecdote of tankies having bizarre and unconscionable stances.
Okay - I’m not a tankie. I’m not even a communist, and no I wasn’t saying that.
Your assumptions are your own.
Fair enough, but you do see that you’ve quacked like a duck here, right?
Especially in the context of a post that’s bound to draw tankies to run to the defense of fellow tankies, as you can see elsewhere in the comments.
I could say the same about you quacking like a Capitalist and fascist… But one of us has better social diplomacy skills.
Okay, you can go lick boot and stop bothering me now.
Not that I expect a good faith reply from you, but mostly just to signal to anyone reading that I’m unwilling to return the disrespect you started:
What exactly have I said that’s capitalist or fascist?
There’s a wide variety and storied history of anti-communist organization that acted as fronts or ways to recruit fascists. George Lincoln Rockwell was part of an anti-communist organization, lots of Ayn Randians fell into fascism, groups like the John Birch Society, or Willis Carto’s Liberty Lobby, the heritage foundation.
They are closely associated, I have every right to joke about it after you’ve misidentified me as a communist.
The choosing to complain about Tankies in the current era of Capitalist corruption and Trump style fascism can its self be interpreted as fascist leaning (contextually) or at the very least, tone def to the actual proportions of the world’s problems right now.
(tankies are proportionally invisible in all democracies).
The truth is anti-communism and fascism have a long and storied history - hell look at who the Nazis went after.
Pressing on after I apologized as if it’s a police investigation was its self a dick move. You wanted total demoralization by begging that I conceed further “see you were quacking like a Communist” after I clarified that I wasn’t one… and now you’re still here? We’re ONLY here because you couldn’t stop and let it go.
But there’s always an opportunity to let it go.
True, but does not substantially support your argument that I’m a fascist.
To say that my suspicion you could be a tankie (not a communist - because not all communists are tankies) is Red Scare shenanigans is a pretty clear overreaction. Let’s flip the script so you can see what I mean, starting with your ad hominem from earlier:
Imagine a thread where the Holocaust was being discussed.
Now imagine someone hopping in with the following out of nowhere:
“Did you know the nazis’ camps weren’t even illegal at the time? The Nuremberg Trials were convened explicitly because there was no law prohibiting their atrocities, and the term “crimes against humanity” and their subsequent trial ex post facto had no legal precedent! That’s not something most people know!”
… okay, sure, but… why insert that unless you’re a fact-bot spitting out random related facts or you’re a nazi? So if I mention that’s kinda suspicious and they blow their lid, does your suspicion of them increase or decrease?
Kinda rich to police my internet etiquette when you so happily embrace ad hominem.