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Welcome to green capitalism.

Ok, idolize/glorify is different than praise. Go ahead and argue that point. I am interested in understanding the position.

Please google the difference yourself. I can’t be bothered to play your dictionary.

I think you’re right

Then why are you bothering me?

But I don’t see anything wrong with praising people for the good things that they did.

Do you see anything wrong with people being dishonest, then?

Further you didn’t say they should admit that they idealize Stalin, you said they should admit that they praise Stalin.

I said “admire”. At least quote me correctly.

There’s definitely a difference in those two words. You’re moving the goal posts again.

No, for that, the difference would need to matter. I ain’t moving shit. They were being dishonest and I called them out for it. I never judged them for wanting to french kiss Stalin. /hj

You think I am projecting that I have a problem with cognitive disaonance based on what evidence?

You keep using that word

I am not trying to get you cross some moral line like “admit to everyone here you’re just a dirty liberal who thinks Obama was a good guy”. I am engaging you and critiquing you.

You failed to grasp the point I was trying to make, cramming yourself into a conversation you weren’t a part of, pedantically focusing on semantic trivialities, obviously trying to peddle some tankie narrative or whitewash some other tankie’s attempts at trolling. That’s not “engaging and critiquing”. It’s harrassment, or at least bothering.

If you can’t tell the difference, I can’t help you yet.

I’m fine without your “help”. Thanks but no thanks.

And if you can read the thread, the thread you are replying to invokes Rule 6 which is what caused the commenter you are debating against to start this conversation about praise/deification/etc

If you read the thread, you will find out that my insertion to it was purely based on calling out that person’s bluff. I didn’t judge anyone’s actual opinion on Stalin.

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Maybe you don’t think those are interchangeable

That’s true. Those terms are not interchangeable.

As for what I am talking about, the fact that Dogbert praises Stalin is apparently a problem for you.

They’re denying that they praise Stalin. That’s the problem.

It is possible to praise people for the positive things they […]

That wall of text is a propos of… what exactly?

The fact that you are trying to paint Dogbert’s praising of Stalin is something he should “admit” is a way of drawing a boundary between acceptable and unacceptable beliefs

No. I said that they should “admit” it, because they claim that they don’t idealize Stalin, which is ridiculous if you read their comments.

a form of thought policing, and also a way to create an echo chamber where you can’t be confronted with positions that challenge your own position and threaten some of the beliefs that you hold tied into your identity.

Projection much?

So what I am talking about is you, choosing to interpret Rule 6

Never applied to no rule. You’re fighting strawmen.

That’s pretty much all the back up one needs.

If that’s all you need to accept a wild fucking guess: you do you.

Go ahead and claim that both things can be bad.

Cool, I will.

Keep on pretending!

… that two things can be bad at the same time? Are you claiming that I “pretend” that malaria and the flu are both bad and actually one of them is great?

That you critique China without researching it

So not liking something from China automatically means I didn’t “research” it? Interesting. /s

That you share lies about China

Care to back up that bold claim?

That you don’t think there’s anything to discuss positively about the Chinese project aligns with the state department.

Sure you’re not talking about someone else?

Who said “deifying”?

Sounds a lot more like you’re attempting to weaponize the rules to create a thought police regime so you don’t have to deal with your own cognitive dissonance.

I’m sorry, but what the fuck are you talking about?

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Not necessarily. You can consider two things and decide that none of them are good. You don’t know how much I considered both systems. You’re just guessing and are mad that I don’ share your opinion.

You can just admit it, comrade. You’re not fooling anyone that you don’t admire Stalin.

Yeah, the guy that lead the most successful iteration of communism

Totally not praise. /s

I have never praised Stalin (go check my comment history)

I’m calling your bluff

That’s already reality with waydroid.

Social credit in China is […] Something that is a great benefit to their citizens.

Something someone who doesn’t condone a system apparently says. /s

Not if you look at OP’s other comments.

You’ve been effortlessly oriented by the State Department and its various propaganda apparatus.

Can you explain to me, how I’m propagandized by a foreign government when I’m not cheering on the policies of their opponent?

I’m not taking any sides on this conflict, because it’s not my conflict. I’m a socialist… Let me assure you that my fundamental critique of the chinese state apparatus doesn’t really align too much with the US state propaganda.

Both are technocratic systems of control.