As you noted, the rhetorical techniques they use are not in good faith.
Wow, project much? I don't see that argument made in his comments, nor is it evidenced in the comments of others. Considering that I drew attention to the authoritarian pitfalls of communism and their destruction of 'life, liberty and dignity' before you joined the thread, your complaints about systematic erasure are baseless. Perhaps you didn't bother reading the comments you were replying to; I hope not, since the alternative possibility is that you were engaged in deliberate mischaracterization.