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Hey Rainer, nice work here. I completely unite with your position that the freedom movement needs to distance itself from anarchists and radlibs, and to instead expand the base of anti-imperialism. I would like to offer some feedback on the line of anti-imperialism that you take. The sense I get from your work is that in order to counter imperialist propaganda, you overextend yourself in defense of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, etc. For example, the link you cited on the Uyghur issue doesn't contain any primary evidence, it's just counter-propaganda, and that's not to say thats it's factually incorrect, it may well be correct but as an independent viewer there's no way for me to validate that based on the source you linked. Thus the position you take in defense of China also becomes baseless propaganda in this particular case, rather than advancing the cause of Truth finding. I believe that we can uphold a line of anti-imperialism that doesn't necessitate defending the positions of Russia or China, because we know that those countries have flaws, and if we can't uphold a line of anti-imperialism that can't sit with the fact that there probably are some atrocities that those countries commit, then we have a very weak anti-imperialist line. We must strive to find a line of opposing US-led war mongering without the need to glorify the stated "enemies" of the US. I'd love to get your take on this

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