Putin's favorite soldier posts a link to an interview in an attempt to prove that the people "behind Euromaidan" were fascists/"banderites", I point out that the article says the opposite. My comment gets removed, and I get banned. In other news, water is wet.
Tankies are correct when they see the Monroe doctrine and how it has been used in the Americas, yet they cannot see how Russian policy toward its neighbors mirrors it.
Because they don't arrive at the correct conclusion through sound argumentation. They are anti-America, which often will lead you to the correct conclusion, but it will fail you as soon as America isn't the big bad.
Or when two different things can both be bad. Which in this shitty world is ... most of the time...
Conservatives do not believe things. They believe people.
It's a worldview where truth isn't real. Claims are not evaluated, because that's not what claims are for. They're just how you perform loyalty to the ingroup, which is the only thing that has ever mattered to people stuck in the tribalist mindset.
That's all they think you're doing. That's all they think there is.
Not even a fig leaf on Rule 1 meaning 'dissent forbidden.'
"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
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