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i am responding primarily because i see little defense of louis in these exchanges and i tend to stay out of them. while he obviously needs little help from the likes of me i want to say that i do not believe i am ill served by him as a moderator and that i am on this list only because of him. sometimes i am distressed by the exchanges but understand that i am coming in late on long running arguments. i find that louis' occasional vitriol has clarified divisions on the left that previously have been opaque to me. i also have seen him respond to quite bizarre accusations. i don't know how he finds the energy to respond at all. some of the shit he deals with just makes me tired. case in point. i have no idea what you mean by the below. it doesn't seem to work at all. literally or ironically. I agree that we are ill served by our moderator, who is not only an irritable duffer prone to ad hominem attacks, but also willfully ignores the overwhelming evidence that Putinist Russia, since it has already solved all its own problems at home in the most egalitarian, progressive, democratic, and humane way possible, is an anti-imperialist, leftist paradise uniquely placed to liberate "millions of Ukrainians" from their brutal "far-right regime": _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
