Comment on Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent

• crimsonpoodle@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dude take a chill pill. Reverting to ad hominem is not very useful. Even if you, as I presume, are an ardent communist, you can understand that it’s no wonder that a former KGB agent is the dictator of Russia. Power in one form, even if it is corrupted from your idealist view of it, can very easily migrate to power in another form.

  I think it’s a fair statement to say that those arguing that he could be a “Soviet” asset are meaning that he started as one, not that there is a super secret Soviet shadow government continuing 40 years post collapse.

  But either way, why call your fellow human worthless? Shouldn’t, even if you view them as ignorant, your goal to be to raise them up? Talking things out is how we find truth. I think generally the ideals of communism, not talking of its implementation, represent a good amount of empathy at the macro level; so why not keep that empathy that you have for the micro level.

  I hope you have a good day.

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  • Aria@lemmygrad.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Okay but Putin was nobody in the KGB. He had a high salary, knew more shady foreigners, he had some advantages sure, but it’s not like the rest of the KGB is who formed the new governments. His job was transcribing Nazi pub banter, essentially the spy version of a market analyst, and then he was fired for being a Nazi sympathiser.

    On the worthless comment, it was very harsh, we shouldn’t talk that way about other people. But I did think it was funny and wouldn’t take it as a slight if directed at me, more just a funny way to express frustration.

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