I saw your other comment calling me a troll Zagorath and was disappointed. I’m quite clearly not trolling in that thread, I am expressing my viewpiont (and one that is shared by the majority of the world, as I directly addressed in that comment).
I’ve been aware of some of your, as I see it, immature political takes for some time on reddit. That’s fine and in other contexts I’ve enjoyed interacting with you (we even did a bit of that here today under a submission of yours). Everyone can have their own views and their right to have those political views should be respected. But calling people whose views you don’t agree with ‘trolls’ is highly immature. And banning them (or calling for them to be banned) for those views is much worse. Again, I was expressing my viewpoint in that thread, not trolling, and it is quite clear that I genuinely hold that viewpoint, as any review of my comment history on reddit will show.
Pretending a country waging a war of aggression on another sovereign country is the good guy is troll behaviour.
Pretending a country threatening the security of another sovereign country through aggressive posturing and illegally sending jets into their airspace without permission is doing nothing wrong (to say nothing of the ridiculous maritime claims that infringe on the EEZs of no fewer than 6 other countries) is troll behaviour.
Making claims that “the majority of the world” believes your ridiculous claims is trolling. I’ll just go ask my Taiwanese and Vietnamese friends what they think, shall I?
Your first two paragraphs are just the regurgitation of Western propaganda, so not worth addressing
Regarding this :
I’ll just go ask my Taiwanese and Vietnamese friends what they think, shall I?
I suggest you do actually go and ask some ordinary people in Vietnam what their opinion is. And you’d do well to ask people in Taiwan too. I’ve lived in Taiwan and know that many there see the US as (rightly in my opinion) an imperialist aggressor and whose sympathies lie much more with China. I suggest you also pay attention to the results of the upcoming election in Taiwan in 2024. The polling for Tsai Ing-Wen is going pretty badly right now. Seems the ppl of Taiwan are not terribly anxious to sign up to be the next proxy for the US and have their country destroyed, as Ukraine is sadly being destroyed now (the latest in a long list of countries that the US has taken control of and then sacrificed as pawns in their imperialist games).
Which is interesting. You might be able to ban the visibility of my comments from other commenters logged in to Aussie Zone but it appears that anyone else may still be able to see them (at least, that’s what I understand from @dekekun’s comment). I’m still learning but it’s good to see that immature tyrants such as yourself don’t seem to have absolute power here.
Unironically claiming that because other countries state that Russia is in the right for their offensive war in Ukraine without critically assessing those supporting countries political manoeuvres is trolling
The reality is that Russia has majority support amongst the world’s population and in countries outside Europe. That is what I was stating and it’s a reality. I don’t need to argue why they support Russia over NATO and the USA (although I could, and in detail).
That fact is very relevant under a submission that details how Australia is treating Russia’s Embassy in Australia in a highly prejudiced and disgraceful way. Such behaviour will certainly be noticed in other countries and it will reflect very poorly on Australia. That is the basis of my original comment. It’s definitely not trolling and your comment accusing me of such (and those others who do likewise) only demonstrate a lack of intellectual rigour and, I would argue, a sizeable amount of immaturity.
I saw your other comment calling me a troll Zagorath and was disappointed. I’m quite clearly not trolling in that thread, I am expressing my viewpiont (and one that is shared by the majority of the world, as I directly addressed in that comment).
I’ve been aware of some of your, as I see it, immature political takes for some time on reddit. That’s fine and in other contexts I’ve enjoyed interacting with you (we even did a bit of that here today under a submission of yours). Everyone can have their own views and their right to have those political views should be respected. But calling people whose views you don’t agree with ‘trolls’ is highly immature. And banning them (or calling for them to be banned) for those views is much worse. Again, I was expressing my viewpoint in that thread, not trolling, and it is quite clear that I genuinely hold that viewpoint, as any review of my comment history on reddit will show.
Pretending a country waging a war of aggression on another sovereign country is the good guy is troll behaviour.
Pretending a country threatening the security of another sovereign country through aggressive posturing and illegally sending jets into their airspace without permission is doing nothing wrong (to say nothing of the ridiculous maritime claims that infringe on the EEZs of no fewer than 6 other countries) is troll behaviour.
Making claims that “the majority of the world” believes your ridiculous claims is trolling. I’ll just go ask my Taiwanese and Vietnamese friends what they think, shall I?
Your first two paragraphs are just the regurgitation of Western propaganda, so not worth addressing
Regarding this :
I suggest you do actually go and ask some ordinary people in Vietnam what their opinion is. And you’d do well to ask people in Taiwan too. I’ve lived in Taiwan and know that many there see the US as (rightly in my opinion) an imperialist aggressor and whose sympathies lie much more with China. I suggest you also pay attention to the results of the upcoming election in Taiwan in 2024. The polling for Tsai Ing-Wen is going pretty badly right now. Seems the ppl of Taiwan are not terribly anxious to sign up to be the next proxy for the US and have their country destroyed, as Ukraine is sadly being destroyed now (the latest in a long list of countries that the US has taken control of and then sacrificed as pawns in their imperialist games).
The wording you used was trolling. If you were genuine in trying to change minds, you’d use less inflamatory language.
Bye again.
Here’s your note from the modlog on my banning :
Seems that calling someone a ‘tankie’ is civil and not inflammatory in the hypocritical world you exist in (and which I’m now gladly free of)
Seems I’m still here
Which is interesting. You might be able to ban the visibility of my comments from other commenters logged in to Aussie Zone but it appears that anyone else may still be able to see them (at least, that’s what I understand from @dekekun’s comment). I’m still learning but it’s good to see that immature tyrants such as yourself don’t seem to have absolute power here.
Unironically claiming that because other countries state that Russia is in the right for their offensive war in Ukraine without critically assessing those supporting countries political manoeuvres is trolling
The reality is that Russia has majority support amongst the world’s population and in countries outside Europe. That is what I was stating and it’s a reality. I don’t need to argue why they support Russia over NATO and the USA (although I could, and in detail).
That fact is very relevant under a submission that details how Australia is treating Russia’s Embassy in Australia in a highly prejudiced and disgraceful way. Such behaviour will certainly be noticed in other countries and it will reflect very poorly on Australia. That is the basis of my original comment. It’s definitely not trolling and your comment accusing me of such (and those others who do likewise) only demonstrate a lack of intellectual rigour and, I would argue, a sizeable amount of immaturity.