If you’re dismissing Piker because he dials back his rhetoric to connect with an American populace that is primed and conditioned to reject communism, then you are who Lenin was addressing in Left Communism: An Infantile Disorder. I suggest (re)reading that text, comrade.

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the concrete stuff we actually have – piker himself admitting he dialed down his rhetoric to function as a democratic surrogate; promoting other fake leftists like platner; punching left like every other compatible leftist has done –gets waved away with “that doesn’t prove anything”.

Because that's not evidence of him being artificially promoted, it's only evidence of him being a "compatible leftist." As established, "compatible leftists" being "artificially promoted" is only a general trend, not a universal rule, which means that it cannot be applied on an individual level without specific evidence.

a signed memo saying “we promoted this guy”? the epstein class doesn’t write those. if the only evidence that counts is evidence that can never exist, then “show me evidence” was never a real ask

We can look at Charlie Kirk, the person YOU brought up as a comparison, and see clear financial ties to billionaires, which I already told you in my first comment. So this point is complete, 100% bullshit, and you're already aware that it is.

then we’re talking past each other because that’s the only thing i’m talking about.

That is an outright lie. You are not just talking about there being a general trend, you are applying it to a specific person, without evidence.

So, you are completely full of shit.