• unpossum@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      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.

      Excerpt from Sartre.

      Originally about anti-semites, fits fascists too. For some reason I thought about this when reading your comment chain.

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          8 hours ago

          The dissonance between supporting the fascist regime in Moscow and waving a Soviet flag is mind boggling. If Lenin could see what his purported followers are pushing, you could probably harness his interred rotational speed to supply most of Europe with energy.

          Fuck nazis. And other fascists incarnations. Like Russia, Zionism, and whatever is happening in the US right now. Fuck Ukrainian nazis too. But the existence of nazi groups in Ukraine does not justify the Russian invasions, even if Russian propagandists keep pushing that narrative.

          I look forward to Ukraine expelling the invaders, rooting out the rot, and joining the EU.

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            Excuse me? Where did I ever support Moscow? The Russia/Ukraine conflict is a bourgeois endeavour lmao. I hope the working class of both countries revolt and overthrow their governments. Being a liberal must be so confusing…