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> he said himself people would not > believe him anyway This is proof of nothing: I know that most people will call me a crack-pot and few will believe

• personlurking 13y ago
  Your comment appears to half 'attack' the commenter above and half 'attack' Bezmenov, while not saying much. If the use of 'crack-pot' was in reference to Bezmenov, I reccommend first watching his longer (hour-plus) classroom talk from the early 80s, also on Youtube. The main message and content is clear enough, and saying the current empire will fall is far from saying 'the moon is made of cheese'.
  • pyre 13y ago
    1) I wasn't intending to attack Bezmenov. I haven't heard his message, so I can't pass any kind of judgement/opinion on it. 2) My intent was to lodge my dislike of statements such as: People don't believe X, but it's ok because X said that no one would believe him/her. I viewed it (possibly falsely) as using lack of belief as validation of the message itself. [ This can be done even if the messenger didn't intend for the audience to use his/her statements this way, so it's not necessarily an attack against him/her. ] 3) It (to me) has similarities to statements like: <statement 1> is true! <opposing group> might try to distract you by saying <statement 2>, but don't believe them because it's all lies! [ Note: I'm not saying that Bezmenov made any such statements, or that such statements are in his character. ]
    • personlurking 13y ago
      I understand. Thank you for the response.