@nyansandwich @drethelin @nydwracu Motte & bailey. Used as claim abt nature of USG going back to FDR, not 'today's mainstream discourse'.
@schakalsynthetc Communism-the-state-system and post-FDR USG have a recent closest common ancestor, plus significant introgression.
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@schakalsynthetc But it's the difference between saying 'birds are dinosaurs!' (true, interesting) and 'birds are velociraptors!' (fuck you) -
@St_Rev exactly. genealogy isn't transitive -
@St_Rev wrt FDR, tho, I meant more that it was a goal of the New Deal to head off US commies by giving them enough of they wanted to > -
@schakalsynthetc Same with von Bismarck and the socialists! Nobody'd accuse Otto of BEING a socialist, though! -
@St_Rev "socialist" is a horribly semantically overloaded term, is my answer to that -
@schakalsynthetc Likewise 'communist', and MM deploys it unscrupulously. -
@schakalsynthetc Dude is endlessly motte-and-baileying and moving goal posts and sniffing imperiously at anyone who'd pin him down. -
@St_Rev which is interesting because that's a well-known and well-studied intellectual type, and characteristically reactionary - 9 more replies
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