GarbageShoot

Even OP has gotten over doing this routine. Are you really content with an ideology that can only produce "no u"?

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).

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"

Yeah, he was banned for being too aggressive you fucking nitwit, i.e. violating community norms

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]

Disengage

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

You're just deflecting

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.

Aren't we not "real" leftists either? This isn't a very impressive burn

Playing video games is generally regarded as unproductive, so you're in the same boat. Reading and listening to podcasts are things that are simultaneously demanded and disparaged because productivity messaging is incoherent, but whatever.

Because this is still feel-good philosophical liberalism rather than a critique of capital that has teeth