You didn’t back up that claim with anything other than vibes, though.

I don't need to, I'm not the one focusing all my energy on converting people to communism without having any evidence of whether my methods are actually effective, or indeed, whether communism itself is effective.

Hahaha it's like when the CCP exterminated all the sparrows in China to protect the crops. It wasn't until millions of people started dying from starvation that they realized sparrows actually play a major role in controlling insect populations, and their idiotic extermination campaign had the opposite effect of what they intended. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree I guess. Shoot first ask questions later mindset.

Oh, or it's also like when the CCP instituted the one-child policy, only to belatedly realize decades later that they had inadvertently created a massive demographic crisis that has only begun to unfold recently. It's almost like blind adherence to ideology to the exclusion of one's ability to dispassionately examine the available evidence causes one to make bad, self-destructive decisions. Who knew? Certainly not communists.

The fact that the absolute number of comrades has risen due to my interactions means it’s a net positive.

Citation needed