A fed? That’s cute. Welcome to Qanon. I’ve lived and worked outside my home country for over 20 years, actually seeing the corners of the world you claim to adore, actually meeting the people and asking the questions because that’s exactly what I do.
Anyway, I’m sure Putin and Xi appreciate your help. I’m all for overthrowing Western hegemony, but surely we can be more creative than using China and Russia as models. Surely.
Nice try. The feigned interest without any intent to actually learn, as if it’s my job to unilaterally lay out how societies should organize themselves.
As if any critique is disallowed unless I have a little red book under my arm to lay before you my exacting plans. I mean, there seems to be a lot of love in here for societies in which dissent is immediately punished by state violence, so I suppose it tracks.
You’re using an old trap of the far-right, never offered in good faith, unironically repurposed by supposed leftists. Trap me in an endless circle of rhetoric where I’m always on the defensive.
I’ve foolishly trodden that road too many times with neo-cons. Not interested any more. No good faith, no discussion. I truly wish you well on your intellectual journey and I also hope it trends toward your own freedom.
The best model is the one that can be immediately crushed by western imperialism, that way i never have to take sides, can endlessly “criticize” power and live a cushioned life inside the imperial core 🤓
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
A fed? That’s cute. Welcome to Qanon. I’ve lived and worked outside my home country for over 20 years, actually seeing the corners of the world you claim to adore, actually meeting the people and asking the questions because that’s exactly what I do.
Anyway, I’m sure Putin and Xi appreciate your help. I’m all for overthrowing Western hegemony, but surely we can be more creative than using China and Russia as models. Surely.
Sounds neat to me! What models in particular would you say are more creative?
Nice try. The feigned interest without any intent to actually learn, as if it’s my job to unilaterally lay out how societies should organize themselves.
As if any critique is disallowed unless I have a little red book under my arm to lay before you my exacting plans. I mean, there seems to be a lot of love in here for societies in which dissent is immediately punished by state violence, so I suppose it tracks.
You’re using an old trap of the far-right, never offered in good faith, unironically repurposed by supposed leftists. Trap me in an endless circle of rhetoric where I’m always on the defensive.
I’ve foolishly trodden that road too many times with neo-cons. Not interested any more. No good faith, no discussion. I truly wish you well on your intellectual journey and I also hope it trends toward your own freedom.
I am actually interested lol, but it seems like you don’t actually have any better model to offer. So China’s it is.
The best model is the one that can be immediately crushed by western imperialism, that way i never have to take sides, can endlessly “criticize” power and live a cushioned life inside the imperial core 🤓
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Jean-Paul Sartre