I’ll preface with saying that I’m only a random Communist. Please take what I say with a grain of salt, even if I come off as confident.

Regardless of your opinion on the war, it is not going to affect its course unless you go fight there, with a few exceptions.

Unless you live in Russia or Ukraine, your priorities should be:

  • pressuring your country’s government for non-interventionism, including sanctions. Capitalist States have only the interest of capital in mind, and their intervention will hurt the people further
  • fighting racism in your communities, especially the new wave of anti-Russian hate.

If you live in Poland or Romania, you should also be fighting the racism against non-Ukrainians (mostly foreign students) seeking refuge. Most of them just want to go home. The fact that the police are attacking them is extremely ridiculous.

  • gun
    22·
    3 years ago

    Bad faith (Latin: mala fides) is a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another.

    Here’s the thing though. You may disagree with my views. But you have to admit that these are legitimately my views. I am not “pretending to entertain one set of feelings.” I actually do believe everything I have said sincerely, and no one has given me a reason why they would question that.

    • jackalope
      11·
      3 years ago

      Bad faith has a broader meaning than just pretending your views are other than they are. It also refers to sophist rhetorical tricks

      • gun
        1·
        3 years ago

        You’re still going on about this?
        But bad faith means that according to whom? I’m just going off your provided definition from wikipedia which says nothing about sophist tricks. I’m not even using sophist tricks anyways.

          • gun
            1·
            3 years ago

            You came in here out of nowhere in a discussion that didn’t concern you to call me a dumbass because bad faith means honest engagement. When I demonstrate that I have been honest, you keep changing your definition of what the term means. Now sophistry = bad faith, which is interesting, because many times people use sophistry without realizing it, otherwise wanting to have a good faith discussion. But you don’t even give an example of sophistry in anything I have said. Your entire criticism has been completely detached from the original discussion. Why do you waste our time like this?

              • gun
                1·
                3 years ago

                Not true. The word sophist comes from a greek class of intellectuals. We only remember them as deceitful because of Plato.
                But sophism: “an argument apparently correct in form but actually invalid” can be deceitful but is not inherently so. It’s synonymous with “fallacy”. For example, it’s totally possible to accidentally strawman someone if you don’t understand their real viewpoint. But that’s not deception.

                But you still haven’t given an example of sophistry in something I’ve said in this entire thread. You are just arguing in the abstract.

                • jackalope
                  11·
                  3 years ago

                  Well then understand me to to be using it in the Platonic sense.

                  • gun
                    11·
                    3 years ago

                    Plato used the word literally to describe a certain class of Greek intellectuals. Unless you literally think I am a Sophist from ancient Greece resurrected in 2022, I don’t think that’s what you mean. Sophist meaning fallacious person happened because of Plato, but long after Plato.