• irmoz@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Dude… definitions exist. Sometimes things don’t meet them. Are you gonna deny that? Does “no true scotsman” just mean “any claim that a thing is not a true example of some category” to you? Is a bicycle a true example of a sandwich? Is a Frenchman living in Paris a true Scotsman?

      Did the USSR meet even one of those standards? Answer this if you only answer one.

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      1 year ago

      Much like the kleptocratic-fascist China and North Korea is a republic by name only. Read up on your fallacies