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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Now imagine you have 0 knowledge or understanding of anything.

    You don’t understand there is a thing called vision. You don’t know about dimensions. You don’t understand that objects exist. That things have shapes, colors perhaps. That there are materials.

    You don’t even have eyes per se, or any other sensor. You can’t see.

    You don’t understand what thoughts are. What concepts are, nevertheless any concepts themselves.

    If I showed you a side-plane picture of a car, directly plugged into your brain, do you think you’d recognize “cars” if we suddenly also gave you eyes and legs and told you walk around downtown?

    From the moment you are born you are “trained”. From the moment the first strains of organic molecules closed themselves off from their environment, they’ve been “trained”.






  • That’s literally what anti-Zionist Jews have been saying since Zionism was born over 100 years ago…

    Zionism IS antisemitic. It’s based on the idea Jews are incapable of living with other peoples. That Jews are incapable of not making other peoples hate them.

    That’s literally what Theodore Herzl thought and wrote when justifying an ethnically pure Jewish state.

    Like the dude hated Jews as much as the antisemitic Christians around him.

    And progressive, communist mostly, Jews mounted opposition to this. Choosing to fight for rights and acceptance, for protections and for a popular revolution. SINCE THE BEGINNING. And they were the fucking majority by far. Zionism was fucking FRINGE.

    And it makes me really sad to think that so many of those antizionist fighters stayed in Europe until after WW2, fought to liberate Jews in camps, fight Nazis and fascists, make up huge numbers of the partisans all over Europe.

    Then after WW2, the nascent settler colonial state of Israel that was struggling for decades to attract Jews, literally denied entry to many of the survivors of camps and only allowed partisans and people who fought in. They formed many of the first communities, which is why so many were communistic.

    Also why Stalin at first supported Israel, hoping they’d turn communist and ally with the USSR.

    But European colonists gonna colonize and so many became straight up fascists themselves and created the basis of the modern ultra Zionist movement.





  • Communism discourages greed, capitalism discourages compassion.

    Like even if this shit discussion on “human nature” was of any value, there are NO “human natures” you’d like to discourage? Like the “natural human” desire to murder every late lane merger? The “natural human” behaviour of propagating childhood trauma?

    Idk this is just stupid.

    Non-human animals do some crazy shit we would not want to do, and we know we used to do some and still do some crazy shit. “Naturally”. “Nature” isn’t better. And also it’s all fucking “nature. All our behaviours are “human nature”. We literally cannot act in ways that are not in our “nature”. What does that even meeaaan

    This whole “human nature” thing is lazy and unscientific asf