Colonialism is bad on principle. It's, at best, a wasted effort trying to "civilize" people who don't want it. At it's worst, it a tyranny that only exists to perpetuate tyranny. The old empires fell because the profit of maintaining an empire simply pays for the cost of maintaining it. That's not even a mainstream position.
I will never get tired of shitting on Holocaut Deniers. I'll say this again for the umpteenth time. This is not a conspiracy theory. I can respect conspiracy theorists most of the time. Normally they are autistic about minutia that they are generally ignorant about the implications of. "Why didn't the bullet do this?" "Why wasn't the security guard here?" "How come this guy didn't know that?" Holocaust Denial is motivated reasoning and nothing else. The less people know about the Holocaust, the more they scream that it didn't happen. The HD'ers are the Useful Idiots of the activists class who know it happened and are fucking proud of what they did.
Socialists pull this shit all the time. Nobody died in the Cuban Revolution, or in the Cultural Revolution, or in the Holodomor, or on October 7th. They do it 100% of the time because they need Useful Idiots to just deny the facts on it's face, because the activist class are the ones saying "we only killed colonialists", "we had to destroy the old capitalist ways", "the Kulaks were exploiting people", and "there are no civilians in Israel." It's just a move from "it's not happening" to "it's happening and it's a good thing".
I never argued the facts not be challenged. I said, you don't even have facts to argue from. It's a big difference. You're not debating anything, you're asserting the moved goal post of someone else's narrative.
Colonialism is bad on principle. It's, at best, a wasted effort trying to "civilize" people who don't want it. At it's worst, it a tyranny that only exists to perpetuate tyranny. The old empires fell because the profit of maintaining an empire simply pays for the cost of maintaining it. That's not even a mainstream position.
I will never get tired of shitting on Holocaut Deniers. I'll say this again for the umpteenth time. This is not a conspiracy theory. I can respect conspiracy theorists most of the time. Normally they are autistic about minutia that they are generally ignorant about the implications of. "Why didn't the bullet do this?" "Why wasn't the security guard here?" "How come this guy didn't know that?" Holocaust Denial is motivated reasoning and nothing else. The less people know about the Holocaust, the more they scream that it didn't happen. The HD'ers are the Useful Idiots of the activists class who know it happened and are fucking proud of what they did.
Socialists pull this shit all the time. Nobody died in the Cuban Revolution, or in the Cultural Revolution, or in the Holodomor, or on October 7th. They do it 100% of the time because they need Useful Idiots to just deny the facts on it's face, because the activist class are the ones saying "we only killed colonialists", "we had to destroy the old capitalist ways", "the Kulaks were exploiting people", and "there are no civilians in Israel." It's just a move from "it's not happening" to "it's happening and it's a good thing".
I never argued the facts not be challenged. I said, you don't even have facts to argue from. It's a big difference. You're not debating anything, you're asserting the moved goal post of someone else's narrative.