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This becomes hilariously obvious when they straight up bring up "On Authority" as an argument, one of the worst socialist essays ever written.
Right, I have seen MLs quote Chomsky to defend Chinese media censorship. I have seen people quote a Lenin essay which glibly states "civil war gives the peasantry practice at arms" when arguing that "dictatorship" doesn't imply violence. They barely manage a wikipedia-level understanding of these issues.
Hilariously there is already an ML sea lion in here demanding I "prove" this. What, exactly, I am supposed to prove is unclear, since I am effectively distilling a handful of personal anecdotes into a few bullet points. But the aggressive framing and vagueness of the request really does kind of illustrate part of what I'm talking about here. MLs have people convinced that they are thoughtful, when in really they are just aggressive and confrontational.
Interesting. There's a reply from mastodon.social which went to piefed.social but didn't reach this instance so it's not not visible anywhere except your instance.