• mindbleach
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    9 months ago

    It sounds like you’ve got it but don’t want it.

    Yes, linguistic descriptivism is fine… unless you engage in linguistic prescriptivism on the same subject.

    Yes, you can redefine communism… so long as you’re not one of those people whose defense of communism heavily involves a particular definition of communism.

    If that’s not you, personally - great. You know how a conditional statement works.

    • Jojo@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      That seems somewhat tautological then, but okay. I’m not here to judge.

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        9 months ago

        More pointing out a sadly commonplace contradiction.