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That’s an interesting way to cope considering that I’ve taught you a number of basic historical facts today. I live in Vietnam. Your singleminded devotion to spreading the propaganda of the people who appointed 3rd Reich criminals as their officials is disturbing. Are you perhaps being paid to waste my time? Or are you simply deranged?
Your “basic historical facts” are very conveniently dodging the USSR militarily seizing the land of Eastern Poland, killing many and not granting them any autonomy, as some strange way to “protect” Poles.
The USSR was marginally cleaner than the Reich. Pointing out that the West weren’t good either does not mean the USSR wasn’t heavy on conquest and war crimes.
If I’m wasting so much of your time, you are again, fully free to leave or block me or whatever makes you feel better.
Basic historical facts like that NATO countries have rewritten their own role in Nazism & harboring fascists, but you consider their historians the final word on the matter. I gave you some books to read that delve into the historical claims you make about the USSR, which you are welcome to engage with critically. As displayed by your repeated insistence on turning this conversation into a debate with yourself as a judge, you are not actually capable of digesting the material. I may as well hand a dog a laptop. Until you can download one of the books and digest their material I won’t consider you a serious person.
Western countries are fully aware that we did not eradicate fascism, that’s covered in our schools. Like I said, libs are not big on extermination, even of fascist people. Or communist people for that matter, though I do worry for our future under the Christian Nationalists. They are not libs. I do wonder, though, how you feel about the AfD being so much stronger in former East Germany than West Germany. Why is modern fascism stronger in the former Soviet Bloc region of that single country?
There’s nothing for me to judge. Copy/pasting a couple book titles without giving an actual argument is a meaningless appeal to authority. Your opinion of me personally is ultimately irrelevant. It’s the position that matters.
Yap yap yap yap, you’re so intrigued by your own assumptions that you truly believe they are convincing. The problem is that you’ve absorbed American policy debate tactics where “unaddressed claims” are scored as wins. You’re flat out antiintellectual. It’s sad to see someone string together such a dull imitation of inductive reasoning. My guess is others attempted to use it to get through to you, and you misunderstood what they were doing. You just change the focus of the conversation bacl to your favorite propaganda after dismissing whatever you have been presented with as biased or too long to read. I doubt you have even convinced yourself of what you’re saying. After all, Furr and Losurdo are this frightening unknown to you that has you making hundreds of excuses.
Have you ever engaged with a single critic of the WWII & Cold War history you’ve been taught in your life? Even once?
No, I just asked you for a brief summary in your own words. This is standard practice in conversation. You’re the one pretending like that’s too hard. This is just pretending, though, and much like your constant attempts to do personal attacks, it betrays your weakness.
Right, you want an excuse to continue writing your bullshit without reading, that’s what I’m cutting you off from. The most entertaining aspect of this to me is you cannot even reference actual sources, just vague narratives you heard of and a Wikipedia page. Let me give you some advice: if you run into another person who actually reads, counter with your own recommendations. Even better, google a review of their book and bludgeon them with that. It seems you are so thrown off by being asked to read that you have no other move than to camp out in my replies asking for a summary. Has this never happened to you before?
Do you just not know what to do when asked to read before running your mouth? Your persistent reply guy behavior speaks for itself
Okay, that’s one of the silliest ideas I’ve ever heard. We’re supposed to internalize and integrate information, not just parrot whatever our authorities feed us. This is why I ask for your words, not the words of your teachers.
That is a horrible idea that will dull your independent thinking in the long run. Perhaps this has happened to you already. We are supposed to always consider thoughts separately from our elders, our countries and our teachers. This is very important. Without this we cannot be independent from our own traditions, our own narratives, our habits, etc. It’s not without dangers, but it’s a very important skill. We usually press it very heavily once you reach the university level. It’s not for the young, obviously, but very important for adults. It’s key to being able to be flexible, innovate and solve new problems.
It’s like you don’t believe in personally discussing information, which I still think is a flimsy excuse to cover for your weakness. You’re not willing to simply discuss because you simply can’t. You haven’t internalized the information.
Cool email begging for what we used to call “spoon feeding”. I’m taking you really seriously and about to start following your instructions, but I have one condition: you tell me the last book you read. Just the title is fine