• ParanoidFactoid@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    You confuse symbolism in your political opponents with actual conduct that mirrors the horrors of Nazi Germany by the Russian government under the dictator, Putin. The symbolism is used for a slippery slope argument to the very horrors we see Russia committing today.

    This is why you're deluded. See: Korzybski. "Science and Sanity," or his commonly used phrase, "the map is not the territory".

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      1 year ago

      The symbolism is used for a slippery slope argument to the very horrors we see Russia committing today.

      That's exactly what I say.

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        1 year ago

        The leadership of Ukraine is not Nazi or totalitarian. Russia under Purin and China under Xi Jinping is totalitarian.

        You make a fundamental category error.

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          Noi don't. I didn't call the leadership of the Ukraine totalitarian, you are obviously misreading me.

          All in saying that it's unhelpful to call either side Nazi.

          I'm up for calling the Russian regime all the other names (authoritarian, totalist). If you listen to Zelenski, he doesn't call the Russians Nazis, why? Because you get stuck in historical rethoric.

          Just call them Russians. That should become the new bad guy word. Read back what I said, and you'll see.