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Capitalism is the root of evil
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You'll find me critical of AES all the time, but I won't cede ground for what I know to be false just for optics. I take a rigorous approach to rhetoric, I cede no ground that isn't rooted in fact, and I do my best to encourage accurate critique. When you see me defending AES and seemingly not critiquing them as much, it's usually in the context of someone repeating the same bog-standard state department anticommunist mythos that have existed for decades, and thus should be treated as such.
Go ahead and ask me for critiques of AES, and I can do so, but I won't lie about them either.
If the person is nervous about legitimate abuses in AES, then I do my best to make sure those abuses are accurately highlighted. Here's an example of me doing just that. I'm not going to pivot the conversation to a different area just to highlight unrelated flaws, though, that's off-topic and rhetorically bad. Surely you can see that, right?
Like, yes, Stalin outlawing gay marriage was bad, indisputably. Bolsheviks that were pro-gay marriage like Kollontai should have been listened to. I don't need to insert that or other critiques into every comment, though.