• 新星 [they/them/🏳️‍⚧️]@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    all this does is function as support for the libs in this thread

    I’m just trying to point out that you’re left defending a weak argument, and the libs already have taken advantage of that, comrade.

    “Shouldn’t mean more” than what? The shmucks here commenting with their vast amount of knowledge about socialism gained from reddit comment sections? Yes it absolutely should mean more.

    Of course, I was referring to those who actually do have experience in the field.

    I hope you don’t take this the wrong way. Feel free to disregard my replies if you don’t appreciate them.

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      1 year ago

      Nobody has actually given an example of “those who actually do have experience in the field”. Nobody is making that argument in good faith. Anyone “with experience in the field” of political matters is part of one or another ideological camp too, and thus either gets entirely dismissed for their bias, or worshipped for it, depending entirely upon which camp is reading the content. Unexpected outsiders to politics(which Einstein certainly was not, it’s just not historically well known to the libs) that are venerated in their fields are fundamentally more persuasive to bystanders who aren’t acting in bad-faith than the people with obvious bias.

      • 新星 [they/them/🏳️‍⚧️]@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Fair enough, I guess I was thinking of someone like Lenin himself.

        I just don’t understand why you appeal to an outsider at all instead of the idea itself, but you’re probably right that we don’t need to keep debating this.