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Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days agoNah, I pay attention to actual historical fact rather than seeing if the allegations line up with what I want to be true to delegitimize my political opponents.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
You are ready to acknowledge the genocides of your political opponents (us, Australia, Israel).
Just deny the genocides that are not convenient. “Just an unfortunate event”. “Must be the weather”.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Nah, I gave clear explanations, which you just handwaived. My order of operations starts with facts, and then this forms who I consider to be my geopolitical opponents. You gave no explanations for anything, just spouted terms as though the terms themselves stand alone.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
I didn’t handwaive, I rejected your lies. I guess the next step is you requiring me to prove a negative.
I think holodomor and katyń do stand alone. You should also know what Soviet tanks in Prague and Budapest did. How much hand holding do you need?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I already explained that the 1930s famine was caused by weather disaster combined with underdeveloped, feudal agriculture that managed to complete collectivization by the mid-1930s, which is why famine never happened again outside of wartime. I already explained that the ammunition used in Katyn was German manufactured, and the execution method common among the Nazis and unheard of among the Soviets. I’m aware that the Red Army intervened in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, as was their legal right to stop fascist counterrevolution. None of this has anything to do with allegations of genocide or settler-colonialism.
It isn’t that I need handholding, it’s that you offer absolutely nothing but a hope that simply throwing buzzwords at someone that has done the due diligence of researching these topics as part of becoming a communist will mean anything to me. You need to actually present evidence, construct an argument, not entirely ignore factual information that goes against your fragile narrative. It’s disappointing at minimum because the conversation can never go anywhere if you operate purely on reflex.