moomke

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[moomke @futaliker]

I didn’t pretend to be a Chinese diplomat at numerous bars across America just to be treated like this

[moomke @futaliker]

@NoahCur88319363 @ArmedLorax @eastblocvisuals Can you point me to the Soviet law or regulation establishing a ‘two-day minimum’?

The anti-parasitism laws set a standard 41-hour workweek, not of any legal threshold of two days per week.

Viktor Tsoi is not evidence.

[moomke @futaliker]

@MrCauli2137 @ArmedLorax @eastblocvisuals We’re not disagreeing about what the word “you” means. The idea that [anyone] could work two days a week in the Soviet Union, particularly under Stalin and Brezhnev, is just factually incorrect.

[moomke @futaliker]

@Vellorixs @PriestOFMordOor “Eastern people think in tribal terms” is an absolute pretzel of a statement. The irony is astounding

[moomke @futaliker]

@MrCauli2137 @ArmedLorax @eastblocvisuals Then it’s an incorrect statement.

[moomke @futaliker]

@NoahCur88319363 @ArmedLorax @eastblocvisuals “Two hours a day or smthn like that” isn’t correct. Most people weren’t world-famous rockstars

[moomke @futaliker]

@MrCauli2137 @ArmedLorax @eastblocvisuals As it turns out there’s a difference between “Viktor Tsoi could” and “you could”. Original commenter wrote “you could”

[moomke @futaliker]

@NoahCur88319363 @ArmedLorax @eastblocvisuals Being able-bodied and persistently avoiding work could expose someone to accusations of “social parasitism”. Under Stalin full work weeks were effectively coercive, and under Khrushchev and Brezhnev there were also laws against it. So yes, it was required

[moomke @futaliker]

@ArmedLorax @eastblocvisuals Extraordinarily bold claim. The standard Soviet workweek was about 40-42 hours, depending on the era. In the late USSR, the norm was typically a five-day workweek with roughly eight-hour days, much like many industrialized countries today

[moomke @futaliker]

@DeathG_Funnies MC Ride is not standing there with veins erupting from his skull to endorse incremental healthcare reform

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING Neither of these articles even mentions the phrase “from the river to the sea”.

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING You’re defining ‘legitimate interpretation’ as ‘the interpretation you agree with.’ That’s circular reasoning.

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING Then cite protesters explicitly saying ‘From the river to the sea’ means ‘kill all Jews.’ That was your claim.

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING You’ve moved from ‘nobody agrees with you’ to ‘those people don’t count.’ Those are different claims.

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING I am literally proposing a competing interpretation.

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING They’re historians and scholars of antisemitism, several of whom helped draft the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism. My point isn’t that they’re automatically right, only that your claim ‘nobody agrees with you’ is false.

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING An authority can support your position, but it doesn’t make competing interpretations disappear. The existence of disagreement is an empirical fact.

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING Use Google.

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING Appeal to authority.

[moomke @futaliker]

Oh, you like libraries? Name every book.

[moomke @futaliker]

@SharkofPolitics @lron_Side @TTBN_GAMING Yousef Munayyer, Maha Nassar, Amos Goldberg, Alon Confino, and the 200+ signatories of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism disagree. ‘Nobody agrees with you’ is simply untrue