• Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    14 days ago

    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    Sartre

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    14 days ago

    i mean, yeah. he’s a russian leader.

    turns out, the west’s problem with russia wasnt (just) that they were communist. it was that they existed as a separate entity. in that sense, putin is the same as a soviet leader, without the communism.

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    12 days ago

    He’s a Soviet in that he was born in the USSR, but I don’t think that’s what they’re talking about.