Just baby level ad hominem

Straight into the trash

Iranian government brutalizing its own people? Butwutaboutdawest.

That seems like a reasonable question to ask in order to not blindly adopt national chauvinists views. Shouldn’t you put developments in context to avoid getting swept up in a propaganda push?

Is this the “authoritarian apologia” you mentioned? Maybe you could give a citation of someone doing it so we can judge if they are being unreasonable.

Russia waging an imperialist war to absorb a neighbour? Butwutaboutnato.

Is it imperialist? Russia is doing this to expand profit seeking for its national-level monopolies or otherwise export capital? If so they are doing a bad job. Or maybe you don’t know what imperialism is in this context.

Regarding NATO, yes understanding its purpose and it’s member activities in the lead up to Russia invading Ukraine is actually a basic necessity for grasping why it happened at all and why it isn’t just revanchism or “imperialism”. Can you tell me what happened re: the Minsk agreements and why that is relevant? What were their contents?

China threatening it’s neighbours? Butwutaboutdawest.

I honestly don’t know what this is even about. Maybe Japan remilitarizing? It’s not hard to see why that would be concerning.

Nothing is ever their fault, any atrocity committed is either a false flag or misinformation because the only thing that matters is the team on the shirt, not any actual actions.

I have never seen someone saying anything remotely in the vein you are referencing that doesn’t also have criticism for those nations.

Perhaps you could give an example.

God forbid somebody can be against US imperialism and against Russian imperialism simultaneously, that’s much too nuanced.

One would have to start with an understanding of imperialism.

I mean they just ban everyone who can critically read the media and understand basic geopolitics. Of course the remainder will be imperial core national chauvinists, that’s the default in their countries.

Actually I was never this insufferable.

“Extremist” is an interesting accusation because it depoliticizes the inherently political. The supposed bad thing is that the object of derision allegedly deviates from the “norm”, but this says nothing about whether it is correct or good in actuality. It only works on an inherently reactionary audience, or one that absorbs emotional content unquestioned (the intonation that it is bad to be the extremist is internalized without analysis).