Great so then you would let your enemy define the terms of the debate. This why you have no movements IRL except ones literally approved of by your enemy.
There's a lot of ground in between "only using the enemy's definitions", and recognizing/working around decades of propaganda. Like any act of persuasion, you tailor speech to your audience. Besides, in my experience, you don't need to extoll the 'virtues' of authoritarianism, because as people become more educated about materialism and socialist history, they realize it's necessary to prevent extinction. Authoritarianism itself is just a neutral tool, and celebrating it as a concept (or appearing to in front of libs) is both weird and plays right into the popular mainstream image of the Soviet Putin Chynese Ebil Communist Overlord, which is the definition of allowing the enemy to define your position.
If you were in a war and you encountered a minefield, I doubt you would walk right into it for the sake of not allowing your enemy to define your movements.
So what you're saying is you wouldn't just ignore the presence of a minefield and walk forward as normal? You would employ specialized tactics and/or equipment to circumvent it?
Maybe the libs in your life are unreachable (you have my sympathy, I know how they can be), but I've already converted several, and I didn't do it by opening with "Authoritaianism good, actually."
They don't make that distinction so why give yourself more work to do? If you like explaining so much then why don't you just explain that all politics is authoritarian due to the social contract? You can just as easily use the truth to educate people instead of trying to gaslight them
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Great so then you would let your enemy define the terms of the debate. This why you have no movements IRL except ones literally approved of by your enemy.
There's a lot of ground in between "only using the enemy's definitions", and recognizing/working around decades of propaganda. Like any act of persuasion, you tailor speech to your audience. Besides, in my experience, you don't need to extoll the 'virtues' of authoritarianism, because as people become more educated about materialism and socialist history, they realize it's necessary to prevent extinction. Authoritarianism itself is just a neutral tool, and celebrating it as a concept (or appearing to in front of libs) is both weird and plays right into the popular mainstream image of the Soviet Putin Chynese Ebil Communist Overlord, which is the definition of allowing the enemy to define your position.
If you were in a war and you encountered a minefield, I doubt you would walk right into it for the sake of not allowing your enemy to define your movements.
Ffs persuading libs is a fools errand and they'll just lie about communism either way.
So what you're saying is you wouldn't just ignore the presence of a minefield and walk forward as normal? You would employ specialized tactics and/or equipment to circumvent it?
Maybe the libs in your life are unreachable (you have my sympathy, I know how they can be), but I've already converted several, and I didn't do it by opening with "Authoritaianism good, actually."
Other explosives, reciprocity as it were, not that special
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They don't make that distinction so why give yourself more work to do? If you like explaining so much then why don't you just explain that all politics is authoritarian due to the social contract? You can just as easily use the truth to educate people instead of trying to gaslight them
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Oh yeah when was the last time you fought and lost a battle?
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We have to pick our battles, and "authoritarianism is good, actually" is a silly battle to fight.
Ok then retreat forever whenever the right lies about you
Being pissy to other leftists is also a silly battle to fight. You know that's not what I said.
hi comrade have you ever considered that you're a wonderful person and several people here would want to hug you if they could rn
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