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  • When you absolutely, positively know nothing about Marx, his ideas, or what he actually said. I will never understand why Marx's critics refuse to engage with his ideas. 90% of criticisms against Marx can be shown to be directly addressed in the opening paragraphs of his most famous works, proving comments like these to be just repeated dogma by people so confident that others haven't read him that they feel like they can get away with repeating said dogma, and the "right people" like capitalist toadies such as bosses and conservative academics will nod their approval.

    Don't pretend you've done any "intellectual exercise" wrt Marx. Those of us who have read him and bothered to try to understand him can see through your sad "call and respond" approach to political education. Instead of making noises you think will win you fake internet points, educate yourself.

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    Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests
  • Well Marx already has the formulation of "capitalism creates its own gravediggers" which is his idea that the material conditions created by capitalism create individuals who are committed to overthrow it, and so the challenge historically is how to get these people all pulling the same correct direction, and once you do, how do you keep it from breaking apart or giving into reformism or whatever.

    But there's something about the way it is framed? Those of us who want to see capitalism overthrown are able to read something more abstract into it, but the metaphor persists more or less intact. The brutality of it never gives way to the truth that we read into it. So in that way when we accept the truth there is violence that hitches a ride in our reasoning. How far are we then from Bordiga's formulation of "Socialism and Barbarism"? Idk. Everyone knows that quote, but people don't know about Matewan, or the American Strike waves of 1932, or Burkina Faso, or Pancho Villa.

    In short, is what we are learning and repeating educational in a revolutionary way? After all, as Paulo Friere said, "When education isn't liberating it is the dream of the oppressed to become the oppressor."

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    Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests
  • That's my favorite part of the movie, Krishna is in the office about to gun down Jesus, when Buddha kicks down the door and is like "Life is suffering, prepare to live!" And then shoots all the mobsters with a drum loaded Thompson machine gun, before killing Krishna and saving Jesus. And then the sex scene is so passionate

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    Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests
  • I don't know there are these ideas get stuck in our head and we just assume they are true for some reason. This "the capitalist will sell us the rope we will use to hang him" is prolific, its everywhere and one has to wonder why. There's no truth in it. People would attribute it to Marx too but Marx would never say that. I think its a cultural relic that serves to make communism sound badass and scary. But hanging capitalists will not put the world on the path to socialism, if anything the opposite must be true.

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    Maced rule
  • Just have to shift from disposable mace, a spray can full of pepper spray; to a reusable mace, a long ass handle with a big fuck off spikey ball at the end

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    What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have?
  • Videodrome. Watched it few years ago and started strongly recalling watching certain scenes. 20 minutes in I was like oh wow I've seen this before, but by the time James woods was doing bdsm with a debbie harry television, I was like "who let me watch this?"

    It explains a lot, honestly

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  • Its not easy to get diagnosed but you might want to look it up. My daughter discovered she has it and its been a journey to try and find treatment. But it read like a laundry list of all of these issues she had struggled with her whole life: hyper flexibility, migraines, stomach problems, difficulty gaining weight, etc., it does come with certain heart risks so its not just a live with it in discomfort sort of thing. Its worthwhile to look it up and advocate for yourself if you think you or someone else might.

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    Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian influence operation, US says
  • First of all, I am not uncritical of any "side". And there's a lot of different propaganda coming from a lot of different sources. To be honest I at least partially agree with your reasoning, and I think that reason is sufficient enough to form opinions. However, I object to the characterization that someone is a bot because they disagree with a particular narrative, for example the mainstream narrative of the democratic party who is responsible for pushing this bot paranoia, and making up a lot of the hysteria leading up to it.

    Like just because something exists, doesn't mean that someone who disagrees is a bot. Wasn't long ago Democrats were saying that calling for a cease fire in Gaza was a Russian narrative. even if it was, that doesn't make it wrong to speak out about.

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    How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death?
  • Probably less than I'd like to think. I'm afraid by the time I made the mental switch from "wow there sure are a bunch of these squirrels" to "if I'm going to survive this I'm going to have to stomp all these murderous little fuckers" it will have already been too late

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    Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian influence operation, US says
  • You're pretty sure, you just don't have evidence of it now that a traunch of evidence is has been uncovered. Its not even confirmation bias because there's nothing to confirm these claims

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    YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness
  • YouTube can make sure not to target certain people with certain content but also they have no control over it sending me tons of far right wing stochastic terror influencers like Ben Shapiro and matt walsh

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  • I’ve been playing this game off and on, starting over since it came out. I was a hardcore Bloodborne player, but also played a lot of elden ring and ds3. Sekiro never clicked, I thought it was slick and the action felt incredible but I just couldn’t get past the beginning. Finally I’ve broken through and am having a blast, and its all thanks to Armored Core 6. Thanks Armored Core 6 (I will not elaborate).

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