I do, hence my bothering to talk to you (and others) in this thread.

Your assumptions and attitude is what is causing people to be mad at you.

Generally speaking, it goes incredibly poorly; they often do mental gymnastics to paint everything I say as problematic, as perfectly exemplified by “I suspect someone defending Russia is from Russia” -> 'Then you are racist."

You are doing the mental gymnastics, it’s been explained to you before and you just generalize everything told to you without doing any introspection.

I sincerely doubt there is any text I could read that would convince me that Russia bombing the shit out of Ukrainian kids is totally fine, whether it’s via my browser or ink on paper.

lmfao

UKRAINE: DONETSK CITIZENS CRIPPLED BY WAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fsMqYqHnN0

I think the logic of “someone defending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has a decent chance of being from Russia” is pretty airtight too.

Again, chauvinistic racism. You know nothing about anything. Instead of actually reading and analyzing what people say, you instead go full reactionary with racist accusations.

In both cases, you’re welcome to try to convince me otherwise or point me to a text you think would convince me otherwise, but obviously it’ll be harder considering you’re starting from a pretty disadvantages position of attacking me first and trying to persuade me second. While we’re educating each other, I can point you to some Psychology books that point out why that’s… unwise, to say the least. The short version is people tend to not trust someone whose first priority is to attack them.

What are you fucking talking about. Anyway on the first point though, I recommend Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Basic Course https://lemmy.ml/post/43309494