That is truly a 5 years old understanding of the current conflict

Ukraine is not (yet?) NATO either, so why send troops there?

Wouldn’t sending troops actually just escalate things further and drag the whole of NATO into it if anything were to happen to those soldiers?

While I do genuinely feel sorry that this roommate of yours behaved in such awful and shitty way, my point was about the larger communities as a whole. Especially now that there are openly fascist people in power in the US and in a lot of other countries, I believe it’s even more important to be united. Or at least, as I quoted before, know where the differences lie.

That doesn’t mean being supportive of wrong behaviors and/or people of course. Being critical of wrongdoing is an essential skill. But in my opinion one can’t be as critical when generalizing about such large groups

Should I work with Marxist-Leninists?

If you’re organising at work or around housing issues, the people you work with are not going to all have the same politics at you, and your opinions on the July 1918 uprising of Left Socialist Revolutionaries after their expulsion from the Bolshevik government are not relevant to that situation. Yes, really, no-one gives a shit. You’re relating to each other as workers in that situation, not as representatives of a political niche, at least we hope not.

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If there are real political and organisational disagreements, it’s better to be open about them than gloss over them, and retain some independence.

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Not to be that guy, but exactly what kind of conversation are we supposed to have with fascists and people openly calling for an end to both your and my liberties?

Ideas are debatable, but there’s no debating that we all deserve to live and to exist. But I’ve ever only encountered far too many people from the right openly calling for the opposite of that. My own existence to them is offensive and worthy of murder. I want to have no conversation with such people, but you seem to be willing to tolerate that for the sake of “just having a conversation”.

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I truly don’t understand how any instance could remain federated with such a disgusting and untrustworthy company

No, you’re just an ahole who has no idea about the horrors that one might face in a totalitarian regime and now you’re trying to be edgy and die on a pointless hill with this stupid one liners and ignorant takes. Bye

I am convinced you are just a troll.

You cannot be so dense as not to see that you are making no sense, while still trying to compare apples to oranges despite all the users telling you how insane of a comparison it is.

I refuse to believe anyone can be so insane as to dare say that living under a totalitarian regime can be in any shape or form similar to getting banned from any website

Can we agree on that?

Absolutely fucking not.

Social media companies do not prosecute you in any shape or form. At most the can ban you from using their platforms. That’s it.

Being prosecuted by the government of a country (especially a totalitarian one) is an entirely different matter.

And bless your heart for living such a privileged life that you think those 2 things are even on the same level to begin with

Your username makes a lot of sense after reading such opinion, I’m going to be honest.

Do you sincerely think those 2 things are even remotely comparable?

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And their scare tactics worked so well that now people voted for the Republicans to remove “Obamacare” even if they need it to live…

So ignorance is also part of the answer sadly