It's not the idea of licking bums itself that I take massive offence to, and actually what is this nonsense? It's more annoyance and frustration with regard to the fact that it was a childish, smarmy, sideways remark implying that I'm some sort of CR-type idiot who supports the Russian government, and importantly, what it followed from. It's not the first time you've behaved this way. You post on a thread, some point of discussion, and when someone replies you all of a sudden very quickly decide that it's not productive to the thread and so end of. Don't make 'authoritative' posts about things you don't have much of an understanding of (or appear to), and when I suspect in some cases you get flustered, decide what can and cannot be discussed.
This is a robust place and bullshit gets called as well as insults. I'm no precious little thing (I've been called worse and given worse back). Furthermore, it seems to be the nature of particularly long threads for them to go off in several directions (sometimes at once), to take little detours, but which can add to and arrive at parts of the main topic being discussed (the nature of the Russian government is very much on-topic). If that's the last of this silliness then I'm glad, I'll hold my hand up to being childish earlier and you can have the final word (call me a rude name if you want), but you made a poor judgement of me like on the recent DPRK thread, another subject you've liked to pronounce on but seem to be poorly-read. I enjoy reading the Syria thread and your contributions but before it I hardly knew fuck all about that society and the politics involved, so don't post. You need to unpick that arrogance I'm afraid.
Well can I just say one last time I don't think you're a CR-type idiot, a far-right sympathiser, a Putin bum-licker, or any of these kinds of things, I sincerely apologise if that's the impression you got. Sometimes it's hard to keep track and if I unwittingly lumped you in with those clowns I take it all back. I don't want to have a long and discursive convseration on "Is Russia a Fascist state" because it's not one I'd find very productive and it would further derail an already fucked up thread, it wasn't important or crucial to the point I was trying to make, and if you desperately want to have a debate on that topic please start a thread somewhere else where you can do so.
I don't claim to be some sort of authority on this, I made a few brief comments outlining my general idea of Putin's Russia to counter this strange notion that Putin was some kind of brave socialist heroically fighting fascism when in actual fact I view the conflict as being between two types of nationalism and not a fascist vs anti-fascist one. I wasn't attempting to make a comprehensive analysis of the ideology of Putin's Russia, just a very basic one that any half-informed casual observer could make. I'll happily accept you know the ins and outs of the relationship between Putin and the far-right in Russia in greater detail than I do, but I wasn't interested in having a detailed discussion on that point, I had a different point to make one that doesn't need that level of detail.
Now I've said this to you a number of times both on here and via PM, and you still seem persistent in going over it again and again, so excuse me if I take the "I'm no precious little thing" line with a pinch of salt because you've done a good impression of one so far. I know these threads go on little detours, but that's not a detour I'm personally interesting in going on with you, sorry but that's just the way is it. You can't conscript me into having a long drawn out discussion on this issue when there's other more pressing things I'd like to spend my time talking about.
I've tried to retract the things you've found objectionable as any reasonable person would, but other than my general "tone" I'm still not fully sure what they are, and I'm not interesting in a long drawn out argument with you. What more do you actually want from me? You said it was my "snotty tone" well I promise you it wasn't intentional and I can't really be held accountable if you take offence at something as vague and subjective as that, I can assure you it wasn't intentionally done to annoy you.
Likewise on the DPRK thread I'm sorry I didn't get back to you in good time with a list of recommended reads of current North Korean military doctrine and so forth, I have a big file full of poorly organised pdf's which i've been accumulating for years which is where the stuff I was referring to there could be found, now unfortunately I'm not Butchersapron and I'm not retainer to upload you a collection of the appropriate pdf's at the drop of a hat, I have thousands of the buggers it'd take me hours to fish out the particular file I need, I'd have to re-read the damn things to be able to get you exact sources in that level of detail and believe it or not I do have a life and I can't actually commit to doing that at the drop of a hat. I know more about Korea than I do Ukraine so at some later point we'll get back round to discussing it perhaps?
