My former boss was in a gulag for most of his teens. He was not paid and to this day he has no idea what crime he was convicted of.

Maybe your former boss was bullshitting you. Maybe he knew precisely why he was in prison, but didn’t want to admit his crimes to his employees. It’s pretty common for ex-cons to falsely claim innocence.

He just knows he served time and was targeted by guards because he was Jewish and the Soviets were very bigoted.

There were many prominent Jews in the Bolshevik revolution, and Jews continued to be active members of the Communist Party, in soviets, and in the Politburo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché

This is a perpetrator of propaganda, not a victim of it. Just look at their history & modlog.

Sure thing, Patrick Bateman’s fursona 👍

Extremism, whatever route it takes, is a byproduct of social isolation.

Under what definition of “extremism” is this not a ridiculous statement? Becoming “extremist” is orthogonal to one’s level of social isolation or inclusion. How isolated were the Gazans on Oct. 7th or the prisoners in the Sobibor uprising?

So he just as an American patriot

Someone can be born & raised in America and yet not be patriotic to the American empire. We’re not uncommon.

learned to speak Russian

What are you even talking about? You don’t have to learn Russian to listen to Jeffery Sachs, John Mearsheimer, Noam Chomsky or Chris Hedges.

communists actually are not a fan of fascists

Fun fact, both are totalitarian authoritarianist forms as OF now.

The communists fought the Spanish and Axis fascists, and horseshoe theory is garbage.

See, this is why capitalization matters.

The United Nations Human Rights Council doesn’t seem to think so. It put this to bed two years ago. https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-china/news/setback-for-the-west-un-body-rejects-historic-debate-on-chinas-human-rights-record/

Zeroth of all, that web page doesn’t even make mention of any genocides, so it in no way “proves” one.

We should build a Great Firewall and make China pay for it. – Mitt Romney, probably

The New Republic, Mitt Romney Reveals Twisted Reason Why Congress Moved to Ban TikTok

“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts. So I’d note that’s of real interest, and the President will get the chance to make action in that regard,” Romney said.

So did the United Nations Human Rights Council, two years ago. https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-china/news/setback-for-the-west-un-body-rejects-historic-debate-on-chinas-human-rights-record/

Wikipedia is my go-to for unbiased cold war facts 👍 Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

Katherine Maher has since moved on to more prestigious positions of US imperialism:

She subsequently joined the Atlantic Council and the US Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

This presumes the person you’re responding to is even right wing.

What?

Innuendo Studios’ “The Alt-Right Playbook”

This presumes the person you’re responding to is even right wing. But I doubt you have any evidence, other than circular reasoning about their criticisms of Wikipedia.