“who cares who the rebbe’s classmates were, where the rebetzin worked, if they printed a picture with the rebbe and changed his suit color,”
If you admit that these things are falsified, then why keep spreading them? Why not stop going around telling everyone that he learned with Einstein? Why not use the undoctored versions of the photos? The silly ones in this argument are the ones lying seemingly indiscriminately, not the guy pointing them out. YOU are the ones who clearly care very deeply about keeping these lies going.
“There is apparently ONE shul called “Anshei Liozna” but doesn’t seem to have attracted a significant number of chabadniks to break away from 770.”
Because there’s no market for non-meshichist Chabad. People who don’t believe the Chabad Rebbe is moshiach will just be something else entirely.
“One general observation that comes from reading pro and anti Chabad books about the rebbe is that no one really knew him.”
The one we’re discussing on this thread speaks extensively about friends and acquaintances he had prior to being the Rebbe, particularly in Berlin. It could be that the later volumes talk about post-Rebbe friends, but I don’t have access.