• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No, I know several things about him. He had a very large moustache for instance.

    Perhaps you could educate me on these accounts you are describing? I clearly am unfamiliar with them, otherwise I would not be asking you about them.

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      1 year ago

      You made the claim, you should back it.

      Or you should acknowledge that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

      Either way works for me. ♥️

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        1 year ago

        What claim did I make that I now need to back? That Stalin took over the USSR, or something else?

        Regardless, I can’t help but point out how obviously you are avoiding my single, very reasonable question.

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          1 year ago

          What claim did I make that I now need to back?

          a Stalin that takes advantage of the situation to seize power.

          You don’t get to duck my question by asking a question.

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              1 year ago

              You quoted part of a sentence. That was part of a question. Questions and claims are not the same things.

              It was not a question. This is the full quote of your original claim:

              Figure out a way to implement communism without creating a Stalin that takes advantage of the situation to seize power, and we can talk.

              Your implications are:

              • that Stalin was bad.
              • that Stalin wrongly “seized power”.
              • that Stalin wrongly held onto power.

              I asked: “If Stalin was so intent on seizing power, why’d he try to resign so much?”. I think that neutralizes all three of your implied claims.

              You have not answered.