I was banned without notice for calling out that supporting Putin is not something we should be doing, check my post history, you won’t easily find people more radicalized than me.
This was my final post:
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To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate.
Like we’re doing with Putin?
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“Like we’re doing with Putin?” in reply to a Mao quote, genzdong’s front page at the time was full of threads and posts defending Putin.
Not defending Ukraine is understandable, attacking the USA is understandable but trying to defend and justify Putin is a direct offense against Mao’s teachings.
Putin has clearly gone wrong, we mustn’t refrain from principled argument because he’s an old acquaintance (is he?).
You seem to have forgotten what the “critical” part of “critical support” means. This is not an opening or request for dialogue, this is a criticism. Do better; because somehow, I highly doubt that you’ve done any kind of investigation on where the people who "support Putin’ by your metrics(which would be ironic for someone quoting the Little Red), actually have criticisms for him. If the rest of GenZedong’s postership has the kind of principles and convictions I do, or even just that which is mandated by Marxism, they have oodles of them…
…But he’s also one of the only people actually spitting in the eye of Empire right about now. So yeah. ‘Critical’ support; with extreme emphasis on the ‘critical’ part of it. Swear to god, we’ve had this same argument for four or five years now.
This is it, comrade. Even the framing of “supporting Putin” is a clear indicator that the OP needs to do better.
Agreed. Critical support means you have qualms about something you support. China, DPRK, Iran, Russia, Belarus fall under my critical support category.