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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because you don't know what terms mean doesn't mean the person you're interacting with is a troll. Socialist, especially in this context, has a lot more to do with the economic order. That's why socialist democracy is not an oxymoron, nor is capitalist-autocracy for example. Dictator-democracy is not even similar, because you're abutting two governmental structure systems, not one governmental structure system with one economic system. Dictator-democracy and Capitalist-Communism both don't make sense as terms. Socialist democracy absolutely does.

If you want to argue the veracity of the claim that they were a socialist democracy or not, go for it. But as it is, you are the one trolling here, either purposefully or just inadvertently due to not understanding what you're responding to and thus assuming the person you're responding to is speaking nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because you don’t know what terms mean doesn’t mean the person you’re interacting with is a troll.

So you start your "rebuttal" with a slight insult, well well, you are right of course, if I do not know something doesn't mean you are a troll (or the person I responded to) but check out his posts and come back and say you see no trolling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn't an insult at all. Plenty of ways to phrase what I said as an insult, and I used none of them. I was pointing out that: (1) you didn't seem to know what terms meant, and thus (2) were using that as reason to assume the other person is a troll.

I'm not defending the other person either, I just get annoyed when I see people assume everyone is trolling simply because they're offering a contrasting opinion on something. If someone really is trolling, it shouldn't be hard to point to why you think that. You also made up some fantasy in the latter part of your comment, putting words in the commenter's mouth you responded to, which you obviously intended in a snide way by adding the "Looooool":

Wait, that’s your definition of China! Looooool

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He did say that the country of China, which is a dictatorship, is in fact a democracy.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right, I missed that. I removed that bit from my comment, as I think the rest still holds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, I probably got carried away a bit too, cheers!