• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I’m clumsily pointing out that same logic can just as well be used by the other side to deny the problems in their camp. Maybe nobody should do it?

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      2 months ago

      ‘They could say that about you!’

      Yeah, but it would be wrong.

      If Shaq tells me ‘you’re short,’ DARVO’s not gonna get me very far, unless he picks my ass up and throws me.

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          2 months ago

          So the Nazis were socialists? I mean, they said so. Who am I to judge. Apparently.

          If you meant to say that I, personally, don’t get to unilaterally declare who’s in the club - because words mean things, and labels are either accurate or not - yeah, that is what I am saying. Anyone can point to tankies and say ‘you’re identarians who don’t seem to care about theory,’ and be right. Anyone can point to Illinois Nazis and say ‘you’re secretly antifa!,’ and be wrong. This is not a contradiction. You have to evaluate claims.