I had multiple arguments with this person on their multiple accounts. And the only takeaway I had was that they have never done any actual organising and that they really aren't left at all. I questioned whether they were actually in Socialist Alternative tbh because their responses were so fundamentally bad faith all the time and often came across as lying.
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It's the dunk tank.
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SAlt was against the lockdowns in China.
so they’re the neocon type of trot? or are they just really dumb
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2022/05/01/shanghai-covid-19-lockdown-reaches-crisis-point/
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/04/16/wuhan-lockdown-lifted-after-76-days/
Wonderful talking points such as
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It's actually nationalistic (and thus bad) for the government to praise the people's fight against the pandemic
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Pandemic propaganda only exists to serve the Xi Jinping Dictatorship™️
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Xi Jinping is a dictator - the kind liberals think of. And BTW, they only call non-American administrations "dictatorship"
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Coming up with their own vibes-based death toll
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An obsession over the semi-bungled initial months
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"Human wave" of healthcare volunteers
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Being strict about movement within the epicenter is discrimination, actually
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Repeating the right-wing "extreme brutality" meme reporting of Chinese lockdowns
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Repeating the imperialist meme that Chinese citizens were abandoned en masse without supplies
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Being quarantined is literally prison - actually, it's worse
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Caring about The Economy for some reason
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Not wanting to provide links to any of their sources
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The SeeSeePee must be overthrown
95% of the content in these articles could have just been outsourced to RFA. Then they slap on a sentence about worker ownership of the means of production and call it socialist reporting.