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    11 days ago

    There are violent and nonviolent ideologues on all sides of the political spectrum. There have been violent Marxists, fascists, anarchists, liberals, vegans. Just the same, there have been nonviolent members of all of these ideologies. I wouldn’t consider some tankie or neofash teen making hexbear or /pol/ posts in their bedroom to be violent.

    I would say that the fascist and the Marxist are equally threatening to my safety, all else equal.


  • Well if we’re going to be talking about logical fallacies, I feel like the string of arguments that you made there is a category error. Infinity isn’t exactly a number, it’s more of a philosophical concept than anything else. I would argue that trying to subtract Infinity from Infinity is illogical and kind of silly, but it wouldn’t be a reductio ad absurdum as you put it, but instead a category error.

    An absurdist argument might be more like, if I have one cat I can trade it for one dog. Therefore infinite cats can be traded for infinite dogs. This is obviously absurd, because infinite cats don’t exist, unfortunately.