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Cake day: November 19th, 2023

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  • They had a “slavery was good for black people” post a while back.

    This is not much more extreme than the average liberal who honest to God believes that the colonisation of the third world was a net positive, or at least “nuanced”.

    This goes for 99% of fascist beliefs. Tone them down a bit and you get liberalism. It’s why liberal republics are incubators for fascism.



  • Thanks for answering my questions. I appreciate it.

    It’s impossible to be smuggled to Egypt and if someone thought about getting smuggled they’d be killed immediately

    There’s a company named Ya Hala which you have to pay for it at least 5 thousand dollars to travel

    It is a testament to the derangement of the USA and it’s proxies that they won’t let gazans leave easily, even though it would speed up their plan for ethnically cleansing the area and even give them a source of cheap labor.

    people in Gaza are living on canned food and that’s why there’s so many diseases there

    I assume these are pre-existing stockpiles?

    obliged to drink the salty water ،so many people have gotten kidney diseases due to it

    Sounds horrific. I cannot stop thinking about the genocide myself, and I am not even suffering. I can only imagine what it must be like for you and your friends.


  • Forgive me if my questions are a little basic.

    What is the current food situation like? I know that most of the aid to gaza is blocked, there is little arable land and the sea is largely blocked. I assume that unrwa is playing a major role, but what else are people in gaza doing to survive?

    Also, how exactly are people leaving gaza (whenever they do make it out)? Are they being smuggled through the Egyptian border?





  • Dialectics:

    People very often confused dialections for being all about opposing forces and contradictions. This is not fully accurate.

    Hegel’s dialectics are more fully described as imminent critique, a method where one takes the internal logic of the object of analysis and takes it to its logical conclusion. This is done without bringing in external content or judgement. The point of this excercise is to show whether or not the object in question can stand on its own merit or not. Contradictions are a result of doing imminent critique. We see the internal forces inside an object that will eventually rip it apart. A contradiction is inherently Unstable (or meta-stable at best). No contradiction in the universe can last forever, not even the orbits of the celestial bodies.

    Materialism: when hegel first made his imminent critique, it was about ideas evolving through human history. Marx changed it analysing physical and social systems. Mostly the latter, as science is usually more than sufficient to analyse the dynamics of the former.

    More broadly speaking, materialism itself has a rich tradition. For most of history, materialist have had to fight against religion and superstition. Today, materialism’s basic premises, that reality exists independently of humans, does not sound like it could possibly be used to justify Communism. This is largely because materialist ideas have spread rapidly through the 20th century, although the associated communist impulse that inevitably goes along with it has been suppressed by propaganda.



  • Yeah, Walt is fully responsible. The bourgeois couple are revealed to not even be that bad. The idea that they stole from him is walt’s delusion. He left because of his inferiority complex (which he developed at a very young age).

    Honestly, the show is closer to being a Greek tragedy. Many people take it to be a critique of capitalism because of the background context and world models we as an audience bring to the show.

    In fact, the show goes out of its way to show that every moment in time, Walt has an out that he refuses to use because of pride. The show itself also analyses the role of the state or big business in the crime or poverty happening only tangentially and gives very little screen time to it.











  • Honestly, I haven’t read the proposal in that much detail, but yeah, I am skeptical of the idea that the EU will take on joint debt to re-industrialise or invest in green energy.

    One of the benefits of project was Ukraine (for ameeica) was thar it would criple Europe as a possible competitor to America. I don’t think the Americans, nor Euro aristocrats (who keep desperately trying to raise the profit rate through austerity) will want this.