• Blurst_Of_Times [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • excusemewtf [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Ffs persuading libs is a fools errand and they'll just lie about communism either way.

      Mine clearing charges are explosives used to detonate enemy mines to clear a path through minefields

      • Blurst_Of_Times [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        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."

        • excusemewtf [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Other explosives, reciprocity as it were, not that special