

I’m having difficulty defending ML ideas when talking with people. The biggest issues being “if communism is so great why did it fail everywhere”, “Communist were just authoritarian”, “China is just as bad as the US”. I just don’t know how to defend these points properly tbh, I just don’t present the ideas clearly enough.

I’ve gotten replies that this is just conspiracy theories (even after pointing out that the CIA said so in their documents I get hit with “why would the CIA out themselves like that”) along with “if the US didn’t do that we would be fucked from the Russians”