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Politics must be so easy when you just lazily strawman everyone who disagrees with you, before writing them off with an equally lazy adhominem.
I haven't strawman'd them, they literally say China, Russia, Iran and DPRK are great and the West is bad continually. There's no nuance to their position. At no point have I seen any post or comment from the OP that says "you know what, there's some good and bad on both sides and maybe we should strive to find the balance in our perspectives" (though I will admit, I haven't specifically gone through their post and comment history to seek it out).
It's also not an ad hominem if I believe the person either doesn't understand what they're saying/doing or they're intentionally saying/doing things because they're themselves propagandised or being paid to say/do it.
Oh? Please point to where they said "Putin, Xi and Kim are the perfect humans and there’s nothing wrong in any of their countries and they’re perfect utopias." Because that sounds like a huge fucking strawman.
Refusing to engage with the substance of their point and dismissing them as "either a moron, brainwashed or a paid actor." is basically the definition of an adhominem.