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[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

That's a disingenuous take to be sure. And to be fair there are a lot of those surrounding capitalism and Leninism both.

I literally had a lemmy.ml user yesterday try to justify Putin's invasion of Crimea. Claiming that Putin (a fascist) was concerned about the fascist Azov brigade because they were fascist. (Hilarious Russian propaganda) And that this was all because of America and things only got bad because of America. If America had never been involved, Ukraine would have happily joined back with Russia, etc etc etc.

So it definitely does exist. Whether or not it makes up a significant amount. We can debate that. Or at least we can try. Because unfortunately more often than not. So many on ml domains are incapable of having a good faith discussion. Often responding with walls of text, macro images and other things completely unrelated to the discussion at hand. In an effort to deflect criticism, muddy the conversation and gish gallop the whole talk. They don't have a Monopoly on it though to be sure. It's something other authoritarians like fascists do as well.

[-] BennyHill@lemmy.ml -4 points 8 months ago

Saying that Putin was justified (its debatable) is not the same as saying they like him. the vast majority see him as a necessary evil (some as a lesser evil) to counter the western imperialist hegemony.

You say ml people are incapable of good faith discussions but here you go immediately shutting down arguments going against your worldview as "hilarious propaganda" and those macro images only come out in response to such bad faith takes.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

No, it is not debatable. He literally invaded. If he was justified in invading Crimea then the west and the United States in particular has basically been kinda justified in every action they've taken against every ml country/revolution ever. Either it's bullshit for both or it's okay for both.

And yeah it was literal propaganda. Much like the red scare BS perpetuated in the US since the late 40s. It's not BS propaganda because it disagreed with my world views. You only prove my point by making that accusation. You have no idea what my world views are. You're simply getting emotional and defensive because yours are fairly obvious and I impuned them. But if you want to know know I'm pragmatically libertarian Marxist/ anarcho communist. So even though I agree with ml on a number of economic issues, I generally find them as distasteful as fascist because of their social policy.

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