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You're a troll, we just went over all of those 6 times in the last two days.
And you can't help but insult people when you fail to defend shitty fucking argument that somehow cow towing to Russia won't end with Russia invading again exactly like the last time you goddamn moron.
Ed: also you called me a troll first you absolute fucking crybaby.
You were slinging insults at me from the very beginning when you called me an accelerationist, stupid, etc. You still cannot point to even a single word in a single comment where you explained anything. What a ridiculous conversation, why would you prefer to argue so much over whether you've explained your position when, if you had, you could simply point to where you explained it? Because you didn't explain it, so this is all you've got. Who are you even trying to fool at this point?
Not at all cry baby.
I've explained it literally every time, you can disagree with the explanation but you can't say it didn't happen or you prove yourself a liar.
I explained it the first 5 times, I'm not going to do it every 15minutes for the rest of my life. You aren't willing to accept reality, we've gone over this so I'm not going to bother explaining it anymore. Simply refer back to older comments, history and I dunno an encyclopedia maybe, I'm not sure but that's at least the right direction.
If I haven't explained it why are you even trying at this point and getting downvoted into oblivion.
I conclusively proved that everything I said is true 300 times. I will refuse to point to a specific comment or quote a single line where I did it once, but it definitely, 100% happened. So, that outweighs your 5 times easily. And before you try to say you explained it 301 times, I proved you wrong infinity+1 times.
Or we could not just say bullshit and actually back up our claims, with the expectation that if you claim to have done something, you can point to a specific line on a specific comment where you have done so. I'd prefer to do that, but if you wanna go with bullshit, then fine, I just don't know why either of us is still here then.
At this point, even if you could point to anywhere where you supposedly explained your reasoning, I would demand an explanation for why you've wasted so much time evading the question. This has been a completely unreasonable and unacceptable response to an extremely basic question. All you had to do was answer once and we wouldn't be doing whatever this is.
Once again, trying to have a serious, substantive discussion with a .worlder proves impossible because y'all compulsively lie and do not give a rat's ass about evidence, and when someone catches you doing it you just call them "crybaby" for calling it out.
Your friends aren't conclusive dumb dumb. Also no you haven't even tried. What exactly makes you think Russia won't invade again. Simple as.
You haven't provided anything dumb guy, you provided your feelings that fly in the face of facts.
Literally, the last what 15 comments dumb guy.
Trying to have a conversation usually involves , you know. Involvement. Now you won't shut the fuck up about your idealistic fucking feelings but won't listen with your goddamn face to facts that are unpleasant to your dipshit idealist stances.
Also I called you a crybaby because you were literally crying about name calling you started.
Lol I'm not going to continue this conversation as if you didn't spend the last 15 comments evading a simple question and lying by saying you already answered it.
Trying to talk with you is literally like Monty Python's argument clinic sketch.
"Is this the right room for an argument?"
"I already told you five times."
"No you haven't! Where?"
"Yes I did. I did it before."
"No, you didn't. When, where?"
"Yes I did. I said it before."
Absolute clown.
It's a simple question. They've invaded twice in twenty years both resulting in treaties they've broken. What exactly is the reason they will not invade again this time outside of your goddamn feelings.
Stop trying to change the subject to evade the question. How did you get from a definition that says "Isolationism is when you oppose intervention in foreign countries" to, "Opposing intervention in Ukraine is only isolationist if you are Ukrainian?" What exactly is your reasoning that brought you from point A to point B, and, furthermore, where are the "five times" that you laid out this reasoning? Give me every single one of the five or admit that you're wrong. I'm not going to continue the conversation and just allow you to weasel your way out of that, I will not engage on any other point until you answer that.
That's the literal subject of this discourse, you're trying to change the argument lol.
Right, that's the original subject, then you said, in relation to that subject, that my stance wasn't isolationist, and then you completely refused to defend that point while repeatedly lying and claiming that you had already defended it, you just won't show where, for some reason. And now you're trying to pretend that none of that even happened and return to the original subject to weasel your way out of admitting that you were wrong, because that's the only thing you can do at this point.
You could have just allowed that my stance was isolationist and still disagreed with it. But instead you chose to dispute applying a completely neutral term to me, on no basis and for no real reason either. Literally just the guy in the argument clinic disagreeing with everything the other person says just to be contrarian and never supporting your points.
So long as you refuse to admit that you were wrong on that point and that you lied when you claimed you had explained your reasoning, you are blatantly arguing in bad faith. There's no point in discussing anything else because even if I conclusively proved my position, you could just say, "Nuh uh" like you did there. If you're unwilling to concede even the smallest point like that when you don't have anything resembling a leg to stand on, then why on earth would I move on to anything else with you?
It is. It's not, it's idealist because you ignore really.
If you can't answer the simple question I've stated about a dozen times now your point isn't facially logically and can be discarded because of it.
What makes you think given the history of invasions in less than 20 years that Russia will simply stop and not invade again.
Simple, just answer the question and stop hiding behind the rest of your crybaby bullshit.
Sorry, what part of the definition of isolationism you provided said anything about idealism? I don't see any reference to idealism in the definition you provided or anything that could be construed as a reference to idealism. So even if your claims that my position was idealist and ignorant of reality were correct, you have still not explained in any way how it isn't isolationist.
Other that that part, literally all you have is "no it isn't," straight from the argument clinic.
As for the rest, as I said, I refuse to engage with you on any point until you either justify your absurd claim or admit it was wrong, and I already explained why.
So incredibly dumb or troll, gotcha.
Yes, you'd have to be either incredibly dumb or a troll to say that opposing intervention isn't isolationist, we've been over this.
You'd have to be incredibly dumb to not infer my point, you instead seemingly demand I draw it in crayon via simple to understand pictures.
I see we're back to the "no it isn't" level of discourse straight from the argument clinic. Not that you ever left.
Bro you haven't left the "I refuse to see things that refute my dipshit position" phase. You're a troll or an idiot.
Nothing you've said has in any way justified your absurd stance that opposing intervention isn't isolationist. Not one single thing! And you just keep doubling down on it over and over while vaguely gesturing about how you've somehow explained it in some previous comment you refuse to point to, or now how you totally have a valid line of logic, but you won't tell me what it is and expect me to just psychically read your mind to find that out.
Look, obviously, you backed yourself into a corner with this. At first, maybe you made an honest mistake making such an obviously indefensible claim. But if that's what happened, then why double down so much?
What's going on here is exactly what I described at the start. Because I took an out-group position, you act like you can just say whatever nonsense you like without defending any of it at all. And you know that anyone from your in-group will agree with your side of things because they also won't care about logic or reason and are operating on the same kind of tribal loyalty. And that's why you're going around making absurd claims like this in the first place, because you know you can get away with it because the only people who will call you out on it are people in the out-group, who you can write off. And in the same way that you can adopt absurd positions, you can also just casually lie about people as well. When you see someone say, "I saw a tankie say [blah blah blah]" you're not going to stop and ask, "Is there any evidence that they ever said that?" you'll just instantly accept it, or say that it "sounds reasonable" even with zero basis, because you recognize the person saying it being part of your tribe and me being outside of it. It's just jerking each other off.
And that's why it's impossible to have any sort of logical discussion on .world or for discussions here to involve any sort of critical thought. Because you can make ridiculous claims like, "Opposing intervention isn't isolationist" and none of your tribemates will ever call you out on it.
You know it's true, just like you know it's true that opposing interventions is isolationist. Obviously you'll never concede either point to me, because regardless of facts or reason, I'm in the outgroup. But maybe you can admit it to yourself.
And that's all I have to say to you. Bye.
It has, you're simply unwilling to see that you are wrong because you're a troll. Your purpose isn't argument, it's to be a loudmouth crybaby and you excel at it. Also I literally just have you the goddamn reason you goddamn moron.
Accept it or go away, either way fuck off kiddo.