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      5 months ago

      Ahh the old fingers in your ears method. Favorite tactic of the ignorant and weak.

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        5 months ago

        Hey as long as we’re ganging up on this guy, it’s notable that he claimed that one good thing about living in the USSR was that unlike the modern day US, people weren’t one interaction with the legal system away from having their life destroyed. Which is a pretty odd thing to say.

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            Yeah. It could just be that they are a leftist who just doesn’t have much at all of a factual understanding of 20th century history in any respect, and is substituting an overall rosy picture of anything non Western instead of even the broadest of broad strokes of factual statements and understanding

            But… it could also be someone who didn’t have a Western education with its notable gaps in what we wanna admit happened, and instead had a different education with a different set of notable gaps on what we wanna admit happened, such that it didn’t even occur to them that praising the USSR’s justice system would be a totally bizarre thing to say from the perspective of being supposedly a Westerner talking to another Westerner.

            I have a theory which one it is