Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]

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  • Read Lenin looking for specifically the names of people he’s dunking on, then look those people up and take their exact stances.

    While you’re doing it, also look for stuff Lenin said that you can take out of context, like, “Lenin said you should participate in bourgeois democracy so that means you have to vote blue no matter who.”

    No I’m not trying to trick trolls into reading Lenin, what would make you think that



  • Neither, really. They were banned for “sustained hostility,” a fair bit after that big thread where they got dogpiled. They got into the mindset of “me against the site” and got really combative over every little thing, always looking to pick fights and push contentious angles. I had a bit more sympathy for them than most, but at a certain point getting them off the site was probably better for them.

    The final straw was that they started going around saying stuff like: “he/him, man detected, opinion discarded,” but it was really more about the sustained hostility.









  • This is complete nonsense. To prove even one of the points they’re making, they’d need at least as much evidence and analysis as the entire thread. They’re just cherry-picking random pieces of data and jumping from one case to the next, acting as if they’ve sufficiently proven each one in turn. It’s just a gish gallop.

    Probably the most absurd piece of “evidence” they present is the picture of the night sky of the USSR, which is correlated with the number of prisoners from various areas. Because both of those are correlated with total population, obviously. This is literally their sole piece of evidence regarding the question of whether “elites bounced back” in the USSR, before moving on to the next point!

    The next point is about the landed gentry in the South after the abolition of slavery. Everything they say about this is irrelvant because there was never any attempt to eliminate these people as a class. There was no land reform or anything like that, and because of it, freed slaves sometimes found themselves in a position where they had little choice but to keep working for their former slavers, for a wage. Of course the rich “bounced back” from that.

    This is how conspiracy theories work. You find one extremely tenuous piece of evidence that shows how a major event validates what you want to believe, then, without any consideration of other explanations for the evidence, or other evidence that might invalidate your conclusion, you immediately move on to the next thing.