you’re welcome

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you can’t make concessions after you capitulate

well that’s a redundant and liberalist thing to call oneself, unless one isn’t a communist after all

what’s an “ultra-leftist” to a communist?

No, they’re not, actually

actually yes they are. they are inremoved cases and they are in information wars like the one you’re fighting against the left right now. i’m not going to repeat ourselves

civility weaponization is a common tactic of theirs. “anecdotal” claims are good enough actually

hugh mann doesn’t have any rights he died trying to hijack the endurance because he was an asshole that thought only he could save hughmannidy. besides we all know you don’t actually care

do you think your standard of evidence may be too high given the well studied subterfuge and plausible deniability fascists engage in? if enough of the user base is even sympathetic to these fascist currents then it’s cause for alarm

the first one prevents the bulldozers from undoing the second one.

there’ll be less soon don’t you worry.

if english isn’t your first language then i can appreciate your confusion both with the word “justifiable” and the cambridge definition you gave. the word “just” as in “just” society, “just” war, “justice” etc. means morally upright, ethical. in the sentence:

If something is justifiable, there is a good reason for it: Her actions were quite justifiable in the circumstances.

the word “good” does not in itself mean “coherent”, “rational” or anything morally neutral yet internally consistent, it means good as it “this is a good thing”. your interlocutor never came from a stance that stalin was acting incomprehensibly, only that it wasn’t justifiable either way.

that context was missing from your comment chain so i thought it should be added

without its western reproachment, could china have built its place in the world economy to the same extent it has today?

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I disagree. The tech is indistinguishable from the ideological bias of its creators since by its nature it is exclusively a machine that communicates and surveils on their behalf. That and the fact that the AI companies in the lead would destroy the earth faster than global warming chasing a singularity ought to demonstrate by example that ‘tech’ is not value neutral.