The West Must Recognize Its Hypocrisy writes Financial Times - eviltoast
  • APassenger@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    You’re changing the topic. You demanded citations for an assertion. Felt it was fair to do so. You clearly continue to do so.

    When others ask you, you tell them to Google it. Even just a little more effort would be helpful - a good site for reference, author, something…

    In the other thread I see your links. Thank you. Substance is good. I’ll take a look and see what’s up.

    That so many people “follow you around” is you misreading that you’re pissing off (potential) allies. They’re in those communities for a reason.

    Be better. No one is “stalking me.” And it’s not because I hold a lot of popular opinions (some are, some aren’t). Why are you being “stalked” for real? It’s not the opinion - it is the presentation.

    If you were confident and mature, you wouldn’t be glib and dismissive, you’d present clearly, with some empathy and rapport building, and you’d find some space for discussion.

    Others are also bringing up your complete lack of maturity in the Taiwan thread. Glib is how you galvanize people into an opposing position. Stop being glib.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m not changing any topic here, I’m simply explaining why you’re making a false equivalence. Meanwhile, there aren’t many people following me around, there’s literally three of you.

      And the reason I call you out on following me around isn’t because you disagree with my views, but because you make personal attacks and don’t actually make any arguments of your own. You keep doing this psychoanalysis of me, telling me that I’m not confident, calling me a troll and so on. Nowhere do you say anything of substance.

      If you want people to take you seriously then maybe consider making a reasoned argument instead of personal attacks. Just a thought.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          So, what you’re saying is that I should just stop engaging with your trolling. That’s probably a good advice actually.

              • APassenger@lemmy.one
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                1 year ago

                Checking yours is how people quickly identify the tankie who hates people for their country of origin.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  5
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Running around calling people who disagree with your tankies when you don’t have anything of substance to say really highlights the quality of your intellect. In all our discussions, you’ve only managed to produce a single intelligible comment when you were forced to admit that US is an oligarchic shithole that’s not actually exporting democracy around the world. I don’t hate people for their country of origin, I hate the despotic global empire that your country built and what it’s done to the world.

                  • APassenger@lemmy.one
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    2
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    edit-2
                    1 year ago

                    You’re daft. I wasn’t forced to admit that the US has an oligarchy and you didn’t add one bit of persuasion to my conclusion. I’ve been there for years.

                    You create an image of the people you talk with and then argue with that image.

                    There are two things wrong with that. You don’t see the person. And you’re arguing instead of anything useful. Both track back to an unnecessary and unhealthy predilection to combativeness.

                    You look for fault in others. You look for reasons to feel or be righteous. You look for all this stuff. And sometimes, you find it where it isn’t.

                    Your style is broken. Your approach is broken. You vision of who you speak with is broken. You’ve forgotten that with very rare exception, all posters are people.

                    You act like you’re the sole arbiter of a person’s worth and that that always tracks to being on the “right side” of issues you exclusively care about. It’s immature and, honestly, intellectually lazy.

                    And if the topic of persuasion or decency doesn’t seem substantive to you, then you really need to reflect on why that’s your response.

                    Let’s add: you responded quickly to the tankie part. What say you about hating people for their country of origin? Because you’ve shown active disdain as soon as you think you know they’re from places.