• diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    2 years 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. ♥️

    • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 years 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.

      • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
        12·
        2 years 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.

          • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
            01·
            2 years 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.