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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OP literally did not attempt to have any discussion of any kind, and explicitly said they had no interest in doing so

that's the definition of "not in good faith" homie

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can't exactly have a good faith argument if the post gets brigaded.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, good faith argument is being a debatelord, as was explained to me at length in the last post. People who just happen to see the post and respond are all brigading if they come from an instance that has a cross-post. Them's the rules.

Don't bullshit me that there is a proper way to argue with that fucker, he demonstrated at length that there was not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't think I've ever seen a sealion so mad before.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fuck off, all you can do is call names and be smug, there is no point talking to you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You literally came into my thread and started insulting me to third parties, baby. Don't act all huffy when you take what you give.

You're clearly angry because I didn't engage with your sealioning. Take a break. Not everyone owes you attention.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You made a post calling us all out wtf did you expect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hold on minut! checks notes I thought you were an anarchist!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes this post is aimed at the instance I am on and you mischaracterize ld the heat you got from that meme only coming from "tankies" please grow up.

The meme was also racist as fuck

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

take what you give

who broadcast a meme to all of lemmy arguing that modern MLs are treacherous murderers who must be defeated in real life?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not quite what the meme said, and also, it's a meme. For people frequently chanting about death to various things, y'all are surprisingly literal.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

and also, it's a meme.

You can't use this cop-out like it's a joke whenever it's rhetorically convenient for you, especially when you said in the comments that you completely meant it.

[Yes, I was baited again despite earlier doing the healthy thing of disengaging, that much is not on you]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes I did mean not to trust tankies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then what the fuck do you say "it's a meme" for? What useful information does that convey? Because clearly you're serious about it and have been told that that response comes off as you saying "it's just a joke bro"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Look mate, "it's a meme" means it's not going to be particularly nuanced in its criticism. It's meant to ellicit cheap laughs through simplifying some parts. Y'all have a brain, you can certainly see which parts are exagerrated for these purposes. Your comrades were certainly capable of starting nuanced discussions about Catalonia based on this understanding.

Honestly, I think you are all playing dumb in order to get some gotchas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no interest in gotchas, what I am seeking is a clear and consistent position. Obviously others who know more about the Spanish Civil War know that it's depiction of Stalin as killing anarchists rather than merely supplying them with 75% of their tanks and no more is a wild misrepresentation, and you still have yet to clarify who the "intellectuals" in Mao's case even refer to.

My further point is that this bizarre blanket characterization of MLs as butchers, including of people that they did nothing but help, is gross historical revisionism pandering to the preconceptions of people who frankly have next to zero historical understanding when it comes to the groups it refers to. It is in fact poor conduct to stand by such a message whether it is "just a meme" or communicated by any other medium, just as I am very careful to limit my accusations of, say, Nestor Makhno only to what the most sympathetic of biographers admit of him (since I personally do not know about the proof of other claims).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't particularly have to play by your personal rules. For me the original meme is exagerrating historic events (I already explained why) in order to make a simple point "Don't believe in left unity and be wary of tankies". This is the part I agree with. And before you ask, I don't have to justify myself to anyone, especially when they're typical condescending MLs.

I left the comments open so y'all can counter all the claims in the meme in as much depth you want. I literally gave you full platform access. Y'all prefer to use it to shitpost instead 🤷

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are accusing someone of killing people that he did nothing but help, but simply helped inadequately.

You have no idea who the "intellectuals" even are, do you?

If you're a leftist, don't you think promoting red scare myths is probably bad for understanding history.

Edit: I will repeat what I said a while ago that I have never said that you have to do anything. It is a classic deflection to change the question of what you should do to what you can do. You can do anything you want, deny the Holocaust to own the tankies, I can't stop you, but that doesn't mean you should.

Complete aside, I would never tar anarchists like you tar MLs. There are many anarchists, like Sholem Schwartzbard, who I think were admirable in action and character, and MLs learning from anarchists as Mao did was a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you’re a leftist, don’t you think promoting red scare myths is probably bad for understanding history.

I don't know how many times I have explained what "this is a meme" means. It's never going to be perfectly accurate or nuanced. There's plenty examples of tankies directly sabotaging and killing anarchists which makes many many anarchists not trust left unity. I don't understand why this is such a difficult idea to maintain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You shouldn't need to fabricate history to make that point then. The difference between "not giving someone enough tanks" and "summarily executing them" is not merely a matter of "perfect nuance and accuracy", it is a morbid fantasy.

Also it's just sort of poor form to make claims about things you have no idea about, like Mao and the "intellectuals"

Lastly, I'll repost the late second edit you probably missed from earlier:

Complete aside, I would never tar anarchists like you tar MLs. There are many anarchists, like Sholem Schwartzbard, who I think were admirable in action and character, and MLs learning from anarchists as Mao did was a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You shouldn’t need to fabricate history to make that point then. The difference between “not giving someone enough tanks” and “summarily executing them” is not merely a matter of “perfect nuance and accuracy”, it is a morbid fantasy.

Also it’s just sort of poor form to make claims about things you have no idea about, like Mao and the “intellectuals”

Arglgbl, I just crossposted the meme, at the spur of the moment no less. I didn't make it! I felt that it was an exagerration but nevertheless good enough for a meme. Cheezus.

Complete aside, I would never tar anarchists like you tar MLs. There are many anarchists, like Sholem Schwartzbard, who I think were admirable in action and character, and MLs learning from anarchists as Mao did was a good thing.

Very noble of you, but A) you don't know my lived experiences with tankies, and B) MLs calling anarchists immature, naive and being generally insufferably patronizing is probably older than Lenin and basically the total experience I've had with hexbear the last 2 days :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arglgbl, I just crossposted the meme, at the spur of the moment no less. I didn't make it! I felt that it was an exagerration but nevertheless good enough for a meme. Cheezus.

Then the recommendation I'd offer is to not cross-post shit that's bad. You probably didn't know the history of Catalonia (there were things in the discussion that I don't know), but just sort of went off of a cold war vibe in your head that most murder accusations of MLs are probably true "enough". You certainly made at least a bare effort, after it was pointed out to you, to make the meme less racist, but you showed no interest in making even the same guy have a remotely true mass-murder accusation next to his name.

Also the whole "MLs calling for left-unity" thing is, well, ahistorical aside from the United Front, which worked out perfectly well for its purpose of fighting the Nazis. Hexbear says that, but the figures listed did not (idk about Khrushchev, but fuck him).

So it's basically just contempt completely warping your view to the point of accusing people of lies when they neither said what you claim nor did what you claim after.

but A) you don't know my lived experiences with tankies,

They sure as shit didn't murder you. Were your buddies subjected to some 21st century ML firing squad that I've never heard of?

MLs calling anarchists immature, naive and being generally insufferably patronizing

You know what all this is? Not murder! You'd still get complaints from people who can't take a joke, but if you just called MLs patronizing to start with, you'd actually have a valid point

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do know the history of Catalonia. I just don't want to debate it.

They sure as shit didn’t murder you. Were your buddies subjected to some 21st century ML firing squad that I’ve never heard of?

Man, it was going to well until now, don't start making me ridicule you again...

! You’d still get complaints from people who can’t take a joke, but if you just called MLs patronizing to start with, you’d actually have a valid point

My reaction to patronizing behaviour is ridicule. Way funnier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do know the history of Catalonia. I just don't want to debate it.

Sorry, I was giving you benefit of the doubt, see then my earlier point about spreading complete fabrications

Man, it was going to well until now, don't start making me ridicule you again...

I could have phrased it in a nicer way, but I thought what I said got to the point more succintly. On reflection, I was incorrect and I apologize for that. Let me try again with more diplomacy:

You are being very non-specific. Did you have a bad time with an ML org or even multiple ML organizations? Did they treat you poorly?* Then foo on them! They were probably Trots just because of our social context (or Bob Avakian's cult that calls itself maoist but also seems more consistent with Trotskyism). But whatever they were, including ML in the sense I'd agree to, they shouldn't have done that.

However, that would not justify the portrayal as butchers, especially using completely fabricated events.

*If my guess was wrong, please correct me.

My reaction to patronizing behaviour is ridicule. Way funnier.

If I wasn't clear enough, ridiculing someone for being patronizing is perfectly reasonable behavior. However, accusing someone of mass murder when they were merely patronizing is decidedly unreasonable.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's plenty examples of tankies directly sabotaging and killing anarchists

Then put those on the meme instead of the blatant falsehoods that are there. Like, sorry, but "oh, it's a meme it doesn't have to be accurate" is a terrible argument for posting a misleading, anti-communist meme. Just make a better meme, it's not hard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't make the meme. I didn't plan to make a meme. My life doesn't revolve around what hexbears might think of me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you blame me for thinking you care what hexbears think about you? Like, look at this thread we're posting in, look at the meme you started it with (I'm assuming you made this one). It sure seems like you care, and that's ok! I also care what hexbears think about me, even though I'll never meet these weirdo nerds in real life.

Also, if you didn't make the meme and you agree it's anti-communist misinformation, then why post it? And why defend it so vigorously when people point out the misinformation?

Anyway, I have to actually stop putting work off now, so I likely won't be responding to you for at least several hours. I sincerely hope you have a good day, don't let internet arguments get you down too much, ok? The internet is a toxic shithole and it's very, very easy to escalate arguments way too far, even with people who you really have more in common with than not. I know I do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well this is a just a cathartic meme after the first day. The first meme was posted as "good enough" without too close attention to it and the expectation that only anarchists would see it. Subsequently I was perfectly happy to let hexbears counter it all they wanted. Hell, good opportunity for Hexbears to change some hearts and minds, eh? /hide_the_pain_harold

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My life doesn't revolve around what hexbears might think of me.

It wasn't an appeal to you being concerned about what hexbears think, it was an appeal to your own sense of what decent conduct is, since you presumably don't want to mislead your fellow anarchists with completely false myths.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

[Picture of people being massacred in a pool of their own blood] — "modern online MLs will do this to you in the future if you believe their lies, do not trust them!"

it's all in good fun though, right tankies I would totally organize with in real life?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

For people frequently chanting about death to various things, y'all are surprisingly literal.

He thinks the death to america posts aren't literal

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not everyone owes you attention.

And yet you keep giving it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

You're so fucking cool

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

you literally came into my thread

You literally started a discussion in a public forum. You don't get to be offended people in the forum engaged with it.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I've never seen an Inco DeNiro Factsum Glish Galoop Slish Slosh No True Strawman Fallacy used so blantantly

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

-Le Epic Redditeur

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

This isn't fucking reddit, "brigading" is not a real thing.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why can't an OP have a good faith argument if the post gets "brigaded"? That doesn't really make sense to me. Anyone can choose to argue in good faith regardless of how the other party behaves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well for several reasons.

  1. You have to find someone who actually wants to have a good faith argument with you.

  2. You have to be disciplined enough to only argue with them, as you will expend energy arguing with the 500 other commenters who are just trolling you.

  3. Actually be able to go through your inbox and find the replies of the person you think is actually acting in good faith.

  4. Be in the mood to argue in good faith. Which is unlikely from the begining, basically impossible at the end.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't have a good faith argument with people we have no faith in. Eat shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Faith is earned, OP tipped the scale against themselves real fast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's almost like OP uno reversed