They’re called Uniates, or Eastern Catholics.

Wow, I knew Keiko was bad, but supporting Trump is a new low. You deserve better.

You’re the only one behaving like a troll here. Reported.

your comment is more about you than the topic. you’re not even having this same discussion, much less having it with me.

i hope you find peace.

that’s not really relevant to what is and is not heretical.

Eastern Orthodoxy

it IS weird, and mostly heretical.

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how nice for you and “the cause.” you can stop replying to me now.

yep.

well, you didn’t here.

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they would be able to engage me, the human in front of them, without all the baggage of the movement establishing preconceptions.

ok buddy. good luck with that.

that’s good. don’t lie, have standards.

i wouldn’t say it’s for “optics,” but you have to know your interlocutor. if the person is nervous about legitimate abuses in AES, acknowledging failures openly is more honest and real than dancing about to make excuses for them. owning failings is human, and would be a distinct departure from capitalism, that’s for sure.

but i get you, capitalism as a system is unironically constantly using force to extinguish you. i get it. it’s not an enviable position.

“You uncritically accept the bourgeois narrative”

you don’t know anything about me to make such claims.

citizenry can feel nostalgia for lots of reasons, and i’m not defending capitalism here. but that doesn’t erase the real lived trauma of the ppl in my life who have fled both the USSR and Venezuela.

cool bro. you do you. you’re just not the guy i’m looking for, i guess. maybe the next one.

no, i’m not implying that. it would also be fine if you did. depends on the day and topic.

“To be truly critical in an honest manner (which Marxists are, all the time, among ourselves)”

lol XD it’s saying shit like this that tells me you’re not connected to reality.

even so, i hear what you’re saying. my feedback, as an outsider, is you’re overcompensating. imo, it would go a long way to start with presenting a fair view of a couple pros and cons, acknowledging the concern of your interlocutor. what i see instead, almost universally, is kneejerk defense of AES and leaders, and just telling non-Leftists that they’re wrong, stupid, propagandized.

i get, but it’s not a NECESSARY component of communism. the DPRK is shit for a lot of reasons, mostly due to the consolidation of power in the hands single insane family. trying to rehabilitate their image or reclaim them is fucking insane. XD and just not helpful to the cause, imo. i certainly makes me care less about everything you’re trying to say, and i’m really giving you the benefit of the doubt here.