Western perception of “Social credit” largely propaganda btw and if you believe it isnt then you got manipulated.
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You can just admit it, comrade. You're not fooling anyone that you don't admire Stalin.
Wait, admiring is deifying? Someone needs to update the rules. Sounds a lot more like you're attempting to weaponize the rules to create a thought police regime so you don't have to deal with your own cognitive dissonance.
Analyzing the successes and failures of the Soviet project is not deifying. Admiring specific leaders for specific accomplishments is not deifying.
Who said "deifying"?
I'm sorry, but what the fuck are you talking about?
Rule 6 says "idealizing/glorifying". A poster in this thread. Dogbert said the word "deifying" in this thread. Maybe you don't think those are interchangeable. I could be convinced either way.
As for what I am talking about, the fact that Dogbert praises Stalin is apparently a problem for you. It is possible to praise people for the positive things they have done. Some people argue against that praise because they think the negative things the person has done are more important. Some people go so far as to believe it's not possible a person has done anything praise worthy ever because of the bad things they have done and that therefore anyone praising them is clearly morally derelict and that their opinions no longer matter.
The fact that you are trying to paint Dogbert's praising of Stalin as something he should "admit" is a way of drawing a boundary between acceptable and unacceptable beliefs, a form of thought policing, and also a way to create an echo chamber where you can't be confronted with positions that challenge your own position and threaten some of the beliefs that you hold tied into your identity.
So what I am talking about is you, choosing to interpret Rule 6 as applying to a positive analysis of Stalin's actions in office because you can't really handle discourse that runs counter to an orthodoxy that you adhere to.
That's true. Those terms are not interchangeable.
They're denying that they praise Stalin. That's the problem.
That wall of text is a propos of... what exactly?
No. I said that they should "admit" it, because they claim that they don't idealize Stalin, which is ridiculous if you read their comments.
Projection much?
Never applied to no rule. You're fighting strawmen.
Ok, idolize/glorify is different than praise. Go ahead and argue that point. I am interested in understanding the position.
They said they didn't praise Stalin, you said that saying good things about Stalin is praising him. He disagrees with your definition. I don't. I think you're right. That's praising Stalin. But I don't see anything wrong with praising people for the good things that they did.
Further you didn't say they should admit that they idealize Stalin, you said they should admit that they praise Stalin. There's definitely a difference in those two words. You're moving the goal posts again.
You think I am projecting that I have a problem with cognitive disaonance based on what evidence? I am not trying to get you cross some moral line like "admit to everyone here you're just a dirty liberal who thinks Obama was a good guy". I am engaging you and critiquing you. If you can't tell the difference, I can't help you yet.
And if you can read the thread, the thread you are replying to invokes Rule 6 which is what caused the commenter you are debating against to start this conversation about praise/deification/etc
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Please google the difference yourself. I can't be bothered to play your dictionary.
Then why are you bothering me?
Do you see anything wrong with people being dishonest, then?
I said "admire". At least quote me correctly.
No, for that, the difference would need to matter. I ain't moving shit. They were being dishonest and I called them out for it. I never judged them for wanting to french kiss Stalin. /hj
You keep using that word
You failed to grasp the point I was trying to make, cramming yourself into a conversation you weren't a part of, pedantically focusing on semantic trivialities, obviously trying to peddle some tankie narrative or whitewash some other tankie's attempts at trolling. That's not "engaging and critiquing". It's harrassment, or at least bothering.
I'm fine without your "help". Thanks but no thanks.
If you read the thread, you will find out that my insertion to it was purely based on calling out that person's bluff. I didn't judge anyone's actual opinion on Stalin.
No, u